Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms: Verb
calculate call conjecture estimate figure guess judge make place put reckon supposea-
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Verb
- //Home sales provide a useful way of gauging the overall state of the economy.
- //He accurately gauged the mood of the voters.
- //I was gauging her reaction to the news.
- //instruments for gauging temperature and humidity
History and Etymology
Noun
Middle English gauge, gage "fixed standard of measure," borrowed from Anglo-French gauge, gouge "standard of liquid measure, tax paid to an official who determined the capacity of containers" (continental Old and Middle French jauge "graduated rod used for measuring liquid capacity, measurement by such a rod, capacity of a cask"), perhaps going back to Old Low Franconian *galga "rod, beam," going back to Germanic *galgōn "pole, stake, pole on which a condemned person was hung"; (sense 4) translation of German Massstab — more at gallows entry 1NOTE: The semantic supposition behind this etymology is that the Old Low Franconian etymon retained the sense "rod" (lost elsewhere in Germanic) which was specialized to refer to a kind of measuring rod in Gallo-Romance. For detailed argumentation and bibliography see Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (online) at entry jauge.
Verb
Middle English gawgyn, gagen, borrowed from Anglo-French gauger, derivative of gauge gauge entry 1gauge
verb
variants: also gage
Synonyms & Antonyms (Entry 1 of 2)
- to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement //glance over the pattern and try to gauge how much fabric you'll needSynonymsExamplesVerb
- //Home sales provide a useful way of gauging the overall state of the economy.
- //He accurately gauged the mood of the voters.
- //I was gauging her reaction to the news.
- //instruments for gauging temperature and humidity
History and EtymologyNounMiddle English gauge, gage "fixed standard of measure," borrowed from Anglo-French gauge, gouge "standard of liquid measure, tax paid to an official who determined the capacity of containers" (continental Old and Middle French jauge "graduated rod used for measuring liquid capacity, measurement by such a rod, capacity of a cask"), perhaps going back to Old Low Franconian *galga "rod, beam," going back to Germanic *galgōn "pole, stake, pole on which a condemned person was hung"; (sense 4) translation of German Massstab — more at gallows entry 1NOTE: The semantic supposition behind this etymology is that the Old Low Franconian etymon retained the sense "rod" (lost elsewhere in Germanic) which was specialized to refer to a kind of measuring rod in Gallo-Romance. For detailed argumentation and bibliography see Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (online) at entry jauge.
VerbMiddle English gawgyn, gagen, borrowed from Anglo-French gauger, derivative of gauge gauge entry 1gaugeverbvariants: also gageSynonyms & Antonyms (Entry 1 of 2)
- to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement //glance over the pattern and try to gauge how much fabric you'll needSynonymsExamplesVerb
- //Home sales provide a useful way of gauging the overall state of the economy.
- //He accurately gauged the mood of the voters.
- //I was gauging her reaction to the news.
- //instruments for gauging temperature and humidity
History and EtymologyNounMiddle English gauge, gage "fixed standard of measure," borrowed from Anglo-French gauge, gouge "standard of liquid measure, tax paid to an official who determined the capacity of containers" (continental Old and Middle French jauge "graduated rod used for measuring liquid capacity, measurement by such a rod, capacity of a cask"), perhaps going back to Old Low Franconian *galga "rod, beam," going back to Germanic *galgōn "pole, stake, pole on which a condemned person was hung"; (sense 4) translation of German Massstab — more at gallows entry 1NOTE: The semantic supposition behind this etymology is that the Old Low Franconian etymon retained the sense "rod" (lost elsewhere in Germanic) which was specialized to refer to a kind of measuring rod in Gallo-Romance. For detailed argumentation and bibliography see Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (online) at entry jauge.
VerbMiddle English gawgyn, gagen, borrowed from Anglo-French gauger, derivative of gauge gauge entry 1gaugeverbvariants: also gageSynonyms & Antonyms (Entry 1 of 2)
- to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement //glance over the pattern and try to gauge how much fabric you'll needSynonyms