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# measure

«measure» in Mova's school dictionary: **to find out the size, length, weight, time or amount of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (measure, measures, measured, measuring); noun (a measure, measures)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To measure is to find out the size, length, weight, time or amount of something with a tool, like a ruler, a tape, scales or a clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#m1)

2) «It measures 5 cm» tells how big something is. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#m2)

3) A measure is an amount or a unit for it, like a cup or a metre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#m3)

4) A measure is also a step taken to do something: «safety measures». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#m4)

5) In music, a measure is one short part of a tune (a bar). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

finding a length, weight, time or volume; «measures 5 cm» gives a size; in science you measure in experiments and write the results with units; in cooking you measure cups and spoons; phrases «measure out», «measure up», «tape measure», «for good measure» (a little extra)

### examples

- The pencil measures 12 cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x1)
- Measure the length of the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x2)
- She measured 3 cups of flour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x3)
- The room measures 4 m by 5 m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x4)
- The nurse measured my height: 1 metre 32. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x5)
- We measured the temperature of the water every hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x6)
- The school took safety measures after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x7)
- Add one more cookie for good measure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x8)
- They were measured and found to be correct. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/measure/#x9)

### note

«Measures X» states a size. «Measures 4 m by 5 m» gives length and width (area 20 square metres). Trap: «4 m by 5 m» names the two sides; multiply them only when the area is asked, add them twice for the perimeter. Always write the unit with a measurement. Noun «measurement» is the result you get.

### In the corpora

- [Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/16/)
- [Scene: in Dublin, Nan sees a man with a tape measure outside the Kellys' house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/4/)
- [The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/12/)
- [Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/13/)
- [In the 1970s Peter and Rosemary Grant measured finch beaks changing in just a few years after a drought.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/264-how-scientists-find-out-naturalists-darwin-the-microscope-and-wildlife-filming/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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