GAGE
\ɡˈe͡ɪd͡ʒ], \ɡˈeɪdʒ], \ɡ_ˈeɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of GAGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse"
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a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
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A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
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A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
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To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
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To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
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A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
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To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
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A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.
By Oddity Software
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A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
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A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.
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A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.
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To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.
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To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.
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A measure or standard. See Gauge, n.
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To measure. See Gauge, v. t.
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A wedge with a graduated edge, to measure the width of a space into which it is thrust.
By Noah Webster.
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A standard of measure; a measuring rod.
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To measure; to find out, as the contents of any receptacle. Also, gauge.
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A promise or agreement; a security; a kind of plum; a challenge to fight; a glove, cap, or the like thrown on the ground as a challenge to fight.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A pledge: security for the fulfillment of a promise: something thrown down as a challenge, as a glove.
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To bind by pledge or security.
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To measure. Same as GAUGE.
By Daniel Lyons
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To measure; estimate.
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An instrument for measuring capacity or dimensions; a standard.
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To give as a pledge; pawn; wager.
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Something given or thrown down as security, as for a combat; a pledge; a challenge.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A standard of measure; an instrument for determining the dimensions, capacity, or force of anything, as a gauge for the thickness of wire. [Old Fr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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