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say it: MEZH-ur
measure is a noun and verb meaning "any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal". It carries 13 recorded senses.
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
“the situation called for strong measures”
“the police took steps to reduce crime”
how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
a statute in draft before it becomes law
“they held a public hearing on the bill”
law
the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
“the measurements were carefully done”
“his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate”
a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
“the schools comply with federal standards”
“they set the measure for all subsequent work”
musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
“the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song”
measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
“Measure the length of the wall”
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 measure 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.