English-French translations for measure

  • mesure
    Il s'agira d'une description mesure par mesure. It will be a measure-by-measure description. Les mesures d'encouragement ne doivent pas être des mesures de coercition. Incentive measures must not be coercion measures. Les mesures à adopter. Il se trouve que l'Espagne a adopté des mesures. Measures to be adopted; Spain has adopted measures.
  • mesurer
  • démarche
    C'est la raison pour laquelle je recommande une démarche mesurée. I therefore recommend a measured approach.
  • instrument de mesure
  • métrer
  • module
  • moyen
    Avons-nous les moyens d'y faire face ? Do we have measures to deal with it? Nous manquons de mesures, de ressources, de moyens. We lack measures, resources and money. Nous devons prendre des mesures à moyen et long terme. We need to take medium and long-term measures.

Definition of measure

  • A prescribed quantity or extent
  • The act or result of measuring
  • Metrical rhythm
  • A course of action
  • To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard
  • To be of , to have (a certain measurement
  • To estimate the unit size of something
  • To judge, value, or appraise
  • To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments
  • To adjust by a rule or standard
  • To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with ''out'or ''off''

Examples

  • a measure of salt
  • Honesty is the true measure of a man
  • The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn
  • the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
  • coal measures; lead measures
  • a poem in iambic measure
  • We measured the temperature with a thermometer.   You should measure the angle with a spirit level
  • The window measured two square feet
  • I measure that at 10 centimetres

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