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# gauge

«gauge» in Mova's school dictionary: **An instrument that measures and shows an amount, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a gauge, gauges); verb (gauge, gauges, gauged, gauging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An instrument that measures and shows an amount, like a fuel gauge, a pressure gauge or a rain gauge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#m1)

2) (verb) To measure something exactly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#m2)

3) (verb) To judge or guess something, like a person's mood or how far something is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#m3)

4) The width or thickness of something, like the distance between railway tracks or the thickness of wire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: a rain gauge collects rain to measure how many millimetres fell; a tyre pressure gauge shows the air in a tyre. In maths and science lessons you read the scale on a gauge carefully. Everyday: «gauge how someone feels». Phrases: «fuel gauge», «rain gauge», «tyre gauge», «gauge the distance».

### examples

- We made a rain gauge from a plastic bottle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#x1)
- The fuel gauge shows the tank is nearly empty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#x2)
- Dad checked the tyres with a pressure gauge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#x3)
- It's hard to gauge how deep the water is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#x4)
- She tried to gauge if her teacher was cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#x5)
- The toy train runs on narrow-gauge tracks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#x6)
- Read the gauge to the nearest mark on the scale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/#x7)

### note

Tricky spelling: g-a-u-g-e, said like «gage» (rhymes with page). Not «guage» — a common mistake. American English sometimes spells it «gage» in technical use. Verb: gauged, gauging.

### In the corpora

- [Tsunami warning centres use earthquake sensors and pressure gauges on the sea floor to warn coasts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/45-tsunamis/12/)
- [Rainfall is measured with a rain gauge in millimetres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/67-clouds-rain-snow-hail/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gauge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gauge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.