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gauge is a verb and noun meaning "judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)". 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.