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What does the word measure mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive

To take the dimensions of; weigh; judge.

Part of speech: noun plural

Geol. Related strata.

Part of speech: noun

The extent of anything.

Part of speech: noun

A standard, instrument, or vessel of measurement.

Part of speech: noun

A quantity messured.

Part of speech: noun

A specific act or course of action; a legislative bill.

Part of speech: noun

Division of time, as in music; meter, as in verse.

Part of speech: adjective

Measureless.

Usage examples for measure

And the same, though in smaller measure, was the consequence of many other taxes. – Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
To which Gananciosa replied, taking up the measure as she best might- " For the little brown lad, With a good bright eye, Who would not lose her name?" – The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra