Read full poem →Staring, and with idle eye
Measuring the listless plain,
I began to think again.
Dictionary Entry
To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
In a Sentence
“We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
instruments measuringinstrument measuringdevice measuringdevices measuring. measuring
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Poetry examples for “measuring”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Wars are not fought by armies alone. They
are fought by nations. It is a measuring of the
economic strength of nations. The front line
Read full poem →All day long in the brook’s uneven bed,
Measuring out my soul in a mucous thread;
Dimly now to the brook’s green bottom clinging,
Read full poem →And why they seek it there; for what I search
I must go measuring stone walls, perch on perch;
Read full poem →Fit not your days,”
Said he, the man of measuring eye;
“I must even fashion as my rule declares,
Read full poem →In that habitual restlessness of foot
That haunts the Sailor measuring [9] o'er and o'er
His short domain upon the vessel's deck, 65