measures

Noun

measure (countable and uncountable, plural measures)

1. (obsolete) Moderation, temperance.
   • I will correct thee in measure, and will not leaue thee altogether vnpunished.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 30
2. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
   • Mom's rage has no measure.
3. An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
   • It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a...6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian
4. A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
   • a measure of salt
5. A standard against which something can be judged; a way of measuring it; a criterion for it.
   • By what measure should we judge the performance of our teachers?

   Synonyms:

   metric

6. Any of various standard units of capacity.
   • The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.

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