Beyond measure

Definition

measure /'meʒǝ(r) / v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (in sth) ; ~ sb/sth ( up ) ( for sth ) တိုင္းသည္။ တိုင္းတာသည္။ measuring devices/equipment ❍ measure the width of a door/the level of an electric current/the speed of a car ❍ an instrument that measures how much alcohol there is in the blood ❍ Energy is measured in joules. ❍ The tailor measured me up for a suit (eg measured my chest, arms, legs). (ခ) အကဲျဖတ္သည္။ ခန္႔မွန္း သည္။ It's hard to measure his ability when we haven't seen his work. ၂။ အတိုင္းအတာ ရိွသည္။ ပမာဏရိွသည္။ The room measures 10 metres across/10 metres by 8 metres. ၃။ စဥ္းစား ဆင္ျခင္သည္။ ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္သည္။ measure one's words ❍ She failed to measure the effect of her actions on her family. n ၁။ ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ။ စီမံခ်က္။ safety measures ❍ This is only a temporary measure. ❍ The government is introducing new measures against/to prevent tax fraud. ၂။ (က) [C] (အရြယ္အစား၊ အေရအတြက္ စသည္) ယူနစ္။ The metre is a measure of length. (ခ) [U,C] ယင္းယူနစ္တို႔၏ စနစ္ (သို႔) စေကး။ liquid/ dry measure ❍ Which measure of weight do pharmacists use? ၃။ [C] အျခင္အတြယ္၊ အေရအတြက္၊ ပမာဏ။ a measure of whisky (ie the amount normally served in a glass, eg in a pub). ၄။ [C] တိုင္းတာ ျခင္တြယ္ရန္ ကိရိယာ။ The barman uses a small silver measure for serving brandy. See also TAPE MEASURE ၅။ [sing] ~ of sth အတိုင္းအတာ။ ပမာဏ။ His resignation is a measure of how angry he is. ❍ Words cannot always give the measure of one's feelings (ie show how strong they are). ၆။ [U, sing] ~ of sth အတိုင္းအတာ။ She achieved a/some measure of success with her first book. ❏ beyond measure [ IDM ] ( fml ) အတိုင္းထက္ အလြန္။ His work has improved beyond measure. ❏ for good measure [ IDM ] အပိုအမို။ အဆစ္။ The pianist gave a long and varied recital, with a couple of encores for good measure. ❏ full/short measure [ IDM ] ျပည့္ျပည့္ဝဝ/မျပည့္မဝ။ I'm sure the shopkeeper gave me short measure when she weighed out the potatoes. ❍ Lasting only 44 minutes, this CD is rather short measure. ❏ get/take/have the measure of sb [ IDM ] စ႐ိုက္/ စြမ္းရည္ကို အကဲျဖတ္သည္၊ ခ်ိန္ဆသည္။ It took the champion a few games to get the measure of his opponent. ❏ in large, no small, some, equal, etc measure [ IDM ] ( fml ) …အေရအတြက္၊ ပမာဏ။ His failure is due in large measure to lack of confidence. ❍ We are indebted in no small measure to our team of volunteers. ❏ made to measure [ IDM ] ( Brit ) အတိုင္းေပးၿပီး ခ်ဳပ္သည္။ curtains/doors made to measure ❍ a made-to-measure suit. ❏ measurable /'meʒǝrǝbl / adj ၁။ တိုင္းႏိုင္ေသာ။ တိုင္း၍ရေသာ။ radiation in measurable quantities ❍ The wavelength of light is measurable with a spectrometer. ၂။ သိသာေသာ။ There's been a measurable improvement in his work. measurably /-ǝbli / adv ❏ measured adj ၁။ ခ်င့္ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ measured words/criticism. ၂။ ျဖည္းျဖည္းႏွင့္မွန္မွန္ လႈပ္ရွားေသာ။ walk with measured steps/at a measured pace. ❏ measurement n ၁။ [U] တိုင္းတာျခင္း။ အတိုင္းအတာ။ the metric system of measurement ❍ Accurate measurement is very important in science. ၂။ [C usu pl ] အတိုင္းအတာ။ ပမာဏ။ take sb's chest/waist measurement ❍ The measurements of the room are 20 feet by 15 feet. ❍ This machine can give very precise measurements of pollution in the atmosphere. ❏ measure sth out [ PHRV ] ျခင္သည္။ ခ်ိန္သည္။ measure out a dose of medicine. ❏ measure up (to sth/sb) [ PHRV ] ခ်ိန္သားကိုက္သည္။ မွန္းခ်က္ကိုက္သည္။ The job didn't measure up to my expectations. ❍ The players of today simply don't measure up (to those of my youth). ❏ measuring-tape n = TAPE-MEASURE

Examples

1. This is a temporary measure to stop the problem from getting any worse.
2. [take measures to do something] : Stronger measures will have to be taken to bring down unemployment.
3. [take measures against someone/something] : When you are attacked
4. you take defensive measures against the attacker.
5. The system gives people a measure of protection against pollution.
6. [measure of] : The tests are not an accurate measure of performance.
7. Standard measures of the metric system such as the litre
8. Liquid and dry measures
9. Measures sold in Scotland have been traditionally larger.