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📖 Определения и значения для слова gauge

📒 an instrument for measuring the amount or level of something

  • a fuel/pressure/temperature gauge
  • The depth gauge tells you how deep you have dived.
  • The fuel gauge was reading ‘empty’.

📒 a measurement of how wide or thick something is

  • What gauge of wire do we need?

📒 a measurement of how wide the barrel of a gun is

  • a 12-gauge shotgun

📒 the distance between the rails of a railway track or the wheels of a train

  • standard gauge (= 56½ inches in Britain)
  • a narrow gauge (= narrower than standard) railway
  • At that time railways of three different gauges were in use.

📒 a fact or an event that can be used to estimate or judge something

  • Tomorrow's game against Arsenal will be a good gauge of their promotion chances.
  • In the USA anything that's good is worth a lot of money. That's your gauge.
  • This company is seen as a gauge of Britain's industrial well-being.
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