Noun: gauge
| Singular | gauge |
| Plural | gauges |
Sample Sentences
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1780, Edmund Burke, speech at The Guildhall, in Bristol
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the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt
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The record of philosophy vis-à-vis silence is generally dismal, as good a gauge as any to its overall failure. [2008 Spring/Summer, John Zerzan, “Silence”, in Green Anarchy, number 25:]
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It was Locke who concisely won the argument for a standardised gauge of 4ft 8½ inches over Brunel's 7ft 0 ¼in preference. […] Today, over 60% of the world's railways use that gauge. [2023 August 23, David E Norris, “Joseph Locke: a railway injustice...”, in RAIL, number 990, page 57:]
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A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
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I'm talking about cocking a gauge in between your eyes. [1992, “A Nigga Witta Gun”, in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre, Death Row Records:]
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I'm tryin to find ways to cope / But I ain't fuckin' round with the gauge or a rope [1996, “Illusions”, in Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom, performed by Cypress Hill:]
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It happens everyday don't make me grab the gauge / Dangerously I play, I best to kill with the gauge / And put ya body in the back of that grey Chevrolet [2000, “Grab The Gauge”, in Underground Vol. 3: Kings of Memphis, performed by Three 6 Mafia:]
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Jenni didn't really look as though she fit in with the rest of the girls here, she had a nose piercing and angel bites, her long curly dark brown hair with red highlights was pulled back exposing gauges and many other ear piercings and a tattoo […] [2013, Destiny Patterson, Samantha Beckworth, Jennifer Proctor, Arose, page 150:]
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[…] smoking gauge was a new phenomenon to Himes: “When I looked up after turning the corner, all the grimy facades seemed to be a blaze of bright colors, gold, scarlet, blue, green, like an array of peacocks. […] [1971, Black Creation, volumes 3-6, page 53:]
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When we settled, he said, “You've been smoking gauge, haven't you?” [2000, Cynthia Palmer, Michael Horowitz, Sisters of the Extreme:]
Nouns inflected like gauge
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gauge, gaugen, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French gauger (compare Modern French jauger from Old French jaugier), from gauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galgā (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”). Doublet of gallows. See: Middle English Nouns '
gauge', Old English Nouns '
ġealga', Old Norse Nouns '
galgi', Old Norse Nouns '
gelgja'.