gauge betydelse and definition

Betydelse av gauge på svenska

• 0 to calculate an amount, especially by using a measuring device:

  • Use a thermometer to gauge the temperature.

  • I tried to gauge (= guess) the weight of the box.

• 1 to make a judgment about something, usually people's feelings:

  • A poll was conducted to gauge consumers' attitudes.

  • [ + question word ] It's difficult to gauge how they'll react.

• 2 a device for measuring the amount or size of something:

  • a fuel/rain/temperature gauge

  • a tyre gauge

  • a narrow-gauge/standard-gauge railway

  • a narrow gauge

  • a gauge of 16 millimetres

• 3 a way of judging or showing something, especially how successful or popular something is:

  • The fact that the play is being performed on Broadway is a gauge of its success.

• 4 used in adjectives to express the width of the space inside a cylinder, especially the inside of a gun barrel (= part shaped like a tube):

  • a twelve-gauge shotgun

• 5 to calculate an amount by using a measuring device or by your own judgment, or to make a judgment about people’s feelings:

  • It was not easy to gauge his height from this distance, but he seemed pretty tall.

  • [ + question word ] It’s difficult to gauge how they’ll react when they hear the news.

• 6 a device for measuring the amount or size of something:

  • She used a pressure gauge to measure the air pressure in her bicycle tires.

  • The test is simply a gauge of (= a way of judging) how well they will do in college.

  • a 12-gauge shotgun

• 7 to make a judgment about something:

  • What's the best way to gauge real levels of tax evasion?

  • gauge what/who/how sth It's not difficult to gauge how the markets will react to the latest fall in interest rates.

• 8 to calculate an amount, especially by using a measuring device

• 9 a way of measuring or understanding something, for example, people's opinions or a level of something:

  • a gauge of sth Productivity is an important gauge of economic performance.

  • It's not easy to get any kind of accurate gauge of what young people think about this.

• 10 a method, set of calculations, etc. used to try to predict what will happen in the future:

  • According to the government's economic forecasting gauge, inflation will fall by another 1% next year.

• 11 a piece of equipment for measuring the amount or size of something:

  • a fuel gauge