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MEASURE

7 letters

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Classic 5 pts
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Super Big 5 pts

MEASURE is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

noun
  1. obsoleteModeration, temperance.
  2. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
  3. An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
  4. A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
    • a measure of salt
  5. A standard against which something can be judged; a way of measuring it; a criterion for it.
    • By what measure should we judge the performance of our teachers?
    • Honesty is the true measure of a man.
  6. Any of various standard units of capacity.
    • The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn.
  7. A unit of measurement.
  8. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
  9. archaicThe act or process of measuring.
  10. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
  11. A bed or stratum.
    • coal measures; lead measures
  12. archaicA number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
  13. A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  14. archaicA melody.
  15. archaicA dance.
  16. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
  17. A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
  18. Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
  19. A piece of legislation.
verb
  1. transitiveTo ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
    • We measured the temperature with a thermometer.
    • You should measure the angle with a spirit level.
  2. stativeTo be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement).
    • The window measured two square feet.
  3. To estimate the unit size of something.
    • I measure that at 10 centimetres.
  4. To judge, value, or appraise.
  5. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
  6. rareTo traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
  7. To adjust by a rule or standard.
  8. oftenTo allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
  9. transitiveTo regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.