gauge
- n a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- n accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
- n the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- n the thickness of wire
- n diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- v judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- v rub to a uniform size
gauge bricks - v determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation
gauge the wine barrels - v measure precisely and against a standard
the wire is gauged - v adapt to a specified measurement
gauge the instruments - v mix in specific proportions
gauge plaster
gauge boson
- n a particle that mediates the interaction of two elementary particles
gauguin
- n French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903)
gaul
- n a person of French descent
- n a Celt of ancient Gaul
- n an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands
gaultheria
- n widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
gaultheria hispidula
- n slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds
gaultheria procumbens
- n creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
gaultheria shallon
- n small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries
gavotte
- n an old formal French dance in quadruple time
- n music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte