OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12079

measure

/ˈmɛʒ.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
medida
The act or result of measuring.
City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.
Honesty is the true measure of a man.
medida
The act or result of measuring.
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
medida
The act or result of measuring.
the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
compás
Metrical rhythm.
medida • providencia
A course of action.
The president said the measures involve a ban on all visitors to the country via all ports of entry who aren't residents or diplomats. El Salvadorans or residents who return to El…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 12080

measure

/ˈmɛʒ.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
medir • mensurar
To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
We measured the temperature with a thermometer.
You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
medir • mensurar
To estimate the unit size of something.
I measure that at 10 centimetres.
medir
To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
In its opening portrait of Madame Caillaux, the rightist and anti-Caillaux Illustration asked its readers to imagine not a wronged victim or a female ruled by emotion but a careful…
To measure one’s own activity, to make it conform to these standards of clearness, brevity and truth, is practically a very difficult matter.