Measure

  • 51measure up — {v.} To be equal; be of fully high quality; come up. * /John didn t measure up to the best catchers but he was a good one./ * /Lois school work didn t measure up to her ability./ Compare up: TO PAR. Contrast: FALL SHORT …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 52measure up — {v.} To be equal; be of fully high quality; come up. * /John didn t measure up to the best catchers but he was a good one./ * /Lois school work didn t measure up to her ability./ Compare up: TO PAR. Contrast: FALL SHORT …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 53measure — 1. noun /ˈmɛʒə/ a) The quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard. a measure of salt b) An ( …

    Wiktionary

  • 54measure — Формат набора (Measure)     Длина строки, на которую набирается текст [любая последовательность символов], выраженная в типометрических единицах (пунктах [единица измерения шрифта 1 pt measure 0,4 мм.], квадратах или цицеро [12 пунктов Дидо]) …

    Шрифтовая терминология

  • 55measure\ up — v To be equal; be of fully high quality; come up. John didn t measure up to the best catchers but he was a good one. Lois school work didn t measure up to her ability. Compare: up to par Contrast: fall short …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 56ˌmeasure ˈup — phrasal verb to be good enough The machines that we tested didn t measure up.[/ex] Will he measure up to the challenges that lie ahead of him?[/ex] …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 57measure — / meʒə/ noun 1. a way of calculating size or quantity ♦ as a measure of the company’s performance as a way of judging if the company’s results are good or bad 2. a type of action ♦ to take measures to prevent something happening to act to stop… …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 58measure —    a musical unit representing a series of beats2 (rhythmic stresses) with one primary or accented stress. A measure is also called a bar because the end of a measure is represented in musical notation by a vertical bar …

    Dictionary of units of measurement

  • 59measure up — verb To meet expectations; to be as good as. Its a passable substitute, but it will never measure up to the original …

    Wiktionary

  • 60Measure —    Several words are so rendered in the Authorized Version. (1.) Those which are indefinite. (a) Hok, Isa. 5:14, elsewhere statute. (b) Mad, Job 11:9; Jer. 13:25, elsewhere garment. (c) Middah, the word most frequently thus translated, Ex. 26:2,… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary