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measure up

measure up verb: to meet expectations; to be as good as.

Verb

measure up (third-person singular simple present measures up, present participle measuring up, simple past and past participle measured up)

  1. (idiomatic) To meet expectations; to be as good as.
    • It's a passable substitute, but it will never measure up to the original.
    • Fifty years after the fair I drink from a different cup, but it does no good to compare 'cause nothing ever measures up.1993, “Fifty Years After the Fair”, in Whatever, performed by Aimee Mann

measure up meaning in Hindi and Malayalam

measure up in Hindi

to measure up, equal ; to be able to challenge
लोहा लेना lohā lenā

measure up in Malayalam

come up to standard, pass muster, match up
വേണ്ട യോഗ്യതകൾ ഉണ്ടെന്നു ബോധ്യപ്പെടുക, ആവശ്യമുള്ള നിലവാരത്തിലേക്കു വരുക, കിടപിടിക്കുക, കൊള്ളാവുന്നതാണെന്നു കാണുക, മാനദണ്ഡമനുസരിച്ചുള്ളതാകുക, തൃപ്തികരമാണെന്നു ബോധ്യപ്പെടുക

Forms of measure up

third-person singular presentmeasures up
present participlemeasuring up
past participlemeasured up
pastmeasured up

Questions about measure up

What does measure up mean?
Measure up means to meet expectations; to be as good as.
What is measure up in Hindi?
Measure up in Hindi is लोहा लेना (lohā lenā). See Measure up meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is measure up?
Measure up is a verb.
What is the past tense of measure up?
The past tense of measure up is measured up.

Words near measure up in the dictionary

  1. measure the drapes
  2. measure theories
  3. measure theory
  4. measure twice and cut once
  5. measure twice, cut once
  6. measure up
  7. measure word
  8. measure words
  9. measureable
  10. measurebate
  11. measurebated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: measure up (page history and authors); लोहा लेना (Hindi) (page history and authors); measure up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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