| 单词 | to gauge up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gauge up a. To render conformable to a given standard of measurement or dimensions; also to gauge up. Hence figurative to set bounds to, to limit. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measure [verb (transitive)] > fix the measure or amount of > by a given standard gauge1600 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxxiii. xxiii. 489 I will myselfe limit and gage [L. semodum inpositurum] those things, which fortune, occasion of the times, and necessitie have made excessive and beyond all measure powerfull. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 129 The voiage thither from the foresaid country was gaged within a lesse time. 1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 8 Gage your line, bait your hook. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 105 By these Screws and the Rabbet and Grove your work will be evenly gaged all the way..under the edge of the Iron Q. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. vii. i. 374 The Vanes as nicely gauged on each side as made; broad on one side, and narrower on the other. 1788 Trans. Soc. Arts 6 200 Two steel chaps to guage the Cutter. 1891 C. T. Jacobi Printing vi. 90 When formes are sent to press or machine great care should be exercised in straight-edging after gauging-up the margins. < as lemmas |
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