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He measured the diameter of the pond.

It is difficult to measure the impact of the new law.

I measured the page.

The strangeness of this life cannot be measured.

Exactly! We are talking about the sugars, carbohydrates, fats that our bodies burn to get energy which we measure in calories.

To get that perfection, the engineers must have had to measure it repeatedly during construction.

And the way you’d measure it is from the four corners of the base.

Sabine recognized this and he came up with an equation to measure a room's reverberation time.

Isotopic analysis of shells allowed geologists to measure another glacial effect.

So it’s no surprise that someone attempted to design an objective way to measure distraction.

That is, if you put electrodes on the throat and measure muscle potential—muscle activity—you discover that when people are thinking, like if they’re diligently trying to solve a problem, that there is muscular activity in the throat region.

So if you measure the amount of Lead in the Zircon grain, you can figure out when the grain was formed.

In the first decade of the nineteenth century, a French naturalist named Francois Peron had sailed around the world measuring the temperature of the ocean.

OK. As decades passed, it became clear that measuring river flow was much more complicated than we had thought.

When we analyze pedodiversity within an area, we are measuring how much variability there is in soil properties and how many different types of soil there are in a particular area.

Northwest of Tharsis is the largest volcano of all: Olympus Mons, with a height of 25 kilometers and measuring some 700 kilometers in diameter at its base.

Discovering the inputs and outputs of rivers is a matter of measuring the discharges of every inflowing and outflowing stream and river.

Day nurseries were started as a war-time measure to let mothers work.

As a precautionary measure repeat the medication.

The government warned that police would take tougher measures to contain the trouble.

One of the most difficult aspects of deciding whether current climatic events reveal evidence of the impact of human activities is that it is hard to get a measure of what constitutes the natural variability of the climate.

Even more important were the gains in urban sanitation, as well as measures such as inspection of housing.

The international prototype kilogram is the measure of mass in SI units.

Also important is resolving power, a measure of the clarity of an image.

By any measure other than that of the aristocrats, who had been upstaged by the supposedly inferior "people", the Athenian democracy was a stunning success.

Thus the presence of many well-marked rubs is indicative of older, higher-status males being in the general vicinity rather than simply being a crude measure of relative deer abundance in a given area.

Increases in nonnutritive sucking were first used as an assessment measure by researchers in 1969.

To the extent that the coverage of the global climate from these records can provide a measure of its true variability, it should at least indicate how all the natural causes of climate change have combined.

Taken together, income,  occupation, and education are good measures of peopled social standing. Using a layered model of stratification, most sociolo­gists describe the class system in the United States as divided into several classes: upper, upper middle, middle, lower middle, and lower class. Each class is defined by characteristics such as income, occupational prestige, and educa­tional attainment. The different groups are arrayed along a continuum with those with the most money, education, and prestige at the top and those with the least at the bottom.

Like in terms of blood pressure and lots of other measures, the calorie restricted monkeys are much healthier and they just look and act younger than the monkeys in the normal diet group.

The difference between the two measures provides the researcher with an indication of the level and duration of the response to the stimulus.

With these sophisticated observational assessment and electro-physiological measures, we know that the neonate of only a few days is far more perceptive than previously suspected.

However, these measures are only "indirect" indicators of the infant's perceptual abilities.

Give the size in metric measure.

They gave him a measure of freedom.

In Britain, we have so far escaped, in large measure, either of these afflictions.

That's true in some measure.

Power is in some measure an act of will.

Everyone is entitled to some measure of protection.

With the exception of Juan, each student attained a measure of success.

new government measures to combat crime

We must keep it within measure.

She irritated him beyond measure.

Mankind's knowledge of the universe has increased beyond measure.

Most people had their clothes made to measure.

We specialize in unframed mirrors, made to measure for any room.

a pub measure of spirits

He poured himself a generous measure of cognac.

the standard third-litre measure of draught beer

I measured his strength to be greater than mine.

The ohm measures electrical resistance.

He measured his approach to suit the character of his client.

He measured his strength against that of his opponent.

The room measures 3 metres by 4.

The crab measured over 30 centimetres.