Synonyms of the word

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

abstraction

• n. The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken…
• n. A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
• n. The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics;…
• n. The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the…
• n. An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
• n. Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
• n. (art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational…
• n. (chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
• n. An idea of an unrealistic or visionary nature.
• n. The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the results of said process.
• n. (geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so,…
• n. (computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality…
• n. (computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.

activity

• n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
• n. Something done as an action or a movement.
• n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
• n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

amount

• n. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard…
• n. A quantity or volume.
• n. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
• v. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
• v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.

appraise

• v. (transitive) To set a value or worth of something, particularly by people appointed for the purpose.
• v. (transitive) To consider comprehensively.
• v. (transitive) To judge the performance of someone, especially a worker.
• v. To estimate; to conjecture.
• v. To praise; to commend.
• v. (proscribed) To apprise, inform.

assess

• v. (transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate.
• v. (transitive) To impose or charge, especially as punishment for an infraction.
• v. (transitive) To calculate and demand (the tax money due) from a person or entity.

bar

• n. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
• n. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal…
• n. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
• n. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
• n. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar…
• n. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in…
• n. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed…
• n. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves;…
• n. The counter of such a premises.
• n. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
• n. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type…
• n. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
• n. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
• n. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
• n. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity,…
• n. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants…
• n. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
• n. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically…
• n. (telecommunications) A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
• n. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal…
• n. (music) One of those musical sections.
• n. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault.
• n. (soccer) The crossbar.
• n. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones…
• n. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
• n. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
• n. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially…
• n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
• n. An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
• n. A city gate, in some British place names.
• n. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
• n. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
• n. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
• n. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel…
• n. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which…
• v. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To prohibit.
• v. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
• v. to imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
• prep. Except, with the exception of.
• prep. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
• n. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea…

be

• v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
• v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
• v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
• v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
• v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from"…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
• v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are…
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
• v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate…
• v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
• v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
• v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
• v. (with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
• v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
• v. (often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
• v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense,…
• v. (African American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the…

beat

• n. A stroke; a blow.
• n. A pulsation or throb.
• n. A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is…
• n. A rhythm.
• n. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency.
• n. A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
• n. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
• n. (by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially.
• n. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
• n. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
• n. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
• n. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
• n. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
• n. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those…
• n. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
• v. (transitive) To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
• v. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
• v. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
• v. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc…
• v. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
• v. (transitive, Britain, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price.
• v. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
• v. To tread, as a path.
• v. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
• v. To be in agitation or doubt.
• v. To make a sound when struck.
• v. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
• v. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
• adj. (US slang) exhausted.
• adj. dilapidated, beat up.
• adj. (gay slang) fabulous.
• adj. (slang) boring.
• adj. (slang, of a person) ugly.
• n. A beatnik.

bill

• n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later…
• n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
• n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
• n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
• n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
• v. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
• n. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle,…
• n. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
• n. (of a hat or cap) The peak or brim, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
• v. (obsolete) To peck.
• v. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
• n. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill…
• n. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain…
• n. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
• n. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the…
• n. (US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
• n. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
• n. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play,…
• n. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without…
• n. A set of items presented together.
• v. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
• v. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
• n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

cadence

• n. The act or state of declining or sinking.
• n. Balanced, rhythmic flow.
• n. The measure or beat of movement.
• n. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
• n. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases…
• n. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may…
• n. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
• n. (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
• n. (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
• n. (running) The number of steps per minute.
• n. (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
• n. (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
• n. (heraldry) cadency.
• n. (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
• v. To give a cadence to.
• v. To give structure to.

carry

• v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
• v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
• v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
• v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
• v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
• v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
• v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
• v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
• v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
• v. To be pregnant (with).
• v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
• v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
• v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
• v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
• v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
• v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
• v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
• v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
• n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
• n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
• n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

convey

• v. To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.
• v. To communicate; to make known; to portray.
• v. (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
• v. (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
• v. (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

criterion

• n. A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

decide

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
• v. (intransitive) To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
• v. (transitive) To cause someone to come to a decision.
• v. (obsolete) To cut off; to separate.

determine

• v. To set the boundaries or limits of.
• v. To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
• v. To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
• v. To fix the course of; to impel and direct; with a remoter object preceded by to.
• v. To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence;…
• v. To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
• v. (logic) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
• v. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to finish.

evaluate

• v. (transitive) to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression).
• v. (transitive, computing, mathematics) To return or have a specific value.

express

• adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
• adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
• adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
• adj. (retail) Being a merchant offering a smaller selection of goods than a full or complete dealer of the…
• n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
• n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
• n. An express rifle.
• n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
• n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
• n. An express office.
• n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
• v. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
• v. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
• v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
• v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
• n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
• n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.

instrument

• n. A device used to produce music.
• n. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
• n. A measuring or displaying device.
• n. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
• n. (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
• n. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
• v. (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
• v. (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
• v. To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.

judge

• n. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering…
• n. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
• n. A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
• n. A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
• v. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
• v. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
• v. (transitive) To form an opinion on.
• v. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
• v. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
• v. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

maneuver

• n. A movement, often one performed with difficulty.
• n. (often in the plural) A large training field-exercise of military troops.
• n. An adroit or cunning action; a stratagem.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme.

manoeuvre

• n. British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling of maneuver.
• v. (transitive) British spelling, Canadian, and Irish, South African, Australian and New Zealand spelling…

measurement

• n. The act of measuring.
• n. Magnitude (or extent or amount) determined by an act of measuring.

measuring

• v. present participle of measure.
• n. Act of measurement.

mensurate

• v. (obsolete) To measure absolutely the height, latitude and longitude of a point on the earth.
• v. (military) To measure accurately and precisely the position of an object. Not to be confused with refinement.

mensuration

• n. The act or process of measuring; measurement.
• n. (mathematics) The study of measurement, especially the derivation and use of algebraic formulae to measure…
• n. (music) A 13th century system for governing rhythmic relationships in music that was a precursor to the…
• n. (forestry) The use of quantitative measurements of forest stand to determine stand timber volume, productivity,…

meter

• n. (always meter) A device that measures things.
• n. (always meter) A parking meter or similar device for collecting payment.
• n. (always meter) (dated) One who metes or measures.
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) The base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), conceived…
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) (music) An increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number…
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre, prosody) The rhythm pattern in a poem.
• n. (chiefly US, elsewhere metre) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order…
• n. (obsolete) A poem.
• v. to measure with a metering device.
• v. to imprint a postage mark with a postage meter.
• v. to regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things…

metre

• n. The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal…
• v. (Britain, rare) Alternative spelling of meter.
• n. The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition.
• v. (poetry, music) To put into metrical form.

prosody

• n. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
• n. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

quantify

• v. To assign a quantity to.
• v. To determine the value of (a variable or expression).

quantity

• n. A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector,…
• n. An indefinite amount of something.
• n. A specific measured amount.
• n. A considerable measure or amount.
• n. (metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can…
• n. (mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.

reference

• n. (literary or archaic) A relationship or relation (to something).
• n. A measurement one can compare to.
• n. Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.
• n. A reference work.
• n. (semantics) A relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to…
• n. (academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source…
• n. (academic writing) A previously published written work thus indicated; a source.
• n. (programming) An object containing information which refers to data stored elsewhere, as opposed to containing…
• n. (programming, character entity) A special sequence used to represent complex characters in a web page…
• n. (obsolete) Appeal.
• v. To refer to, to make reference to.
• v. To mention, to cite.

standard

• adj. Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
• adj. (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
• adj. Having recognized excellence or authority.
• adj. Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
• adj. (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
• adj. As normally supplied (not optional).
• n. A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
• n. A vertical pole with something at its apex.
• n. A manual transmission vehicle.
• n. (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
• n. (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch…
• n. A large drinking cup.

step

• n. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
• n. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a…
• n. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
• n. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
• n. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
• n. A small space or distance.
• n. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
• n. A gait; manner of walking.
• n. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
• n. (plural) A walk; passage.
• n. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
• n. (nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of…
• n. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series…
• n. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
• n. (music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
• n. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
• n. (programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
• n. (slang) A stepsibling.
• v. (intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet…
• v. (intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To move mentally; to go in imagination.
• v. (transitive) To set, as the foot.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

touchstone

• n. A stone used to check the quality of gold alloys by rubbing them to leave a visible trace.
• n. (figuratively, by extension) A standard of comparison or evaluation.

valuate

• v. To estimate the value of something; to appraise or to make a valuation.

value

• n. The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.
• n. (uncountable) The degree of importance given to something.
• n. That which is valued or highly esteemed, as one's morals, morality, or belief system.
• n. The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.
• n. (music) The relative duration of a musical note.
• n. (art) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.
• n. Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.
• n. Precise meaning; import.
• n. (in the plural) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treating a mass or compound; specifically,…
• n. (obsolete) Esteem; regard.
• n. (obsolete) valour; also spelled valew.
• v. To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something.
• v. To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work.
• v. To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon.
• v. To hold dear.