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say it: gayj
gauge is a verb and noun meaning "judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)". It is pronounced /ˈɡeɪdʒ/ — gayj. It carries 11 recorded senses.
determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
“gauge the wine barrels”
a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
the thickness of wire
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gauge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.