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.
Phrases
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