Gauge

Definition

gauge ( US also gage ) / geÇdʒ / n ၁။ [U, C] စံ အထူအပါး။ ဂိတ္။ What gauge of wire do we need? ၂။ [C] မီးရထား (သို႔) ဓာတ္ရထား သံလမ္းႏွစ္ခုအၾကား အကြာအေဝး။ standard gauge (ie 56 a-S inches) ❍ a narrow-gauge (ie narrower than standard) railway up the mountain. ၃။ [C] ပမာဏ၊ အျမင့္ စသည္ တိုင္းတာသည့္ ကိရိယာ။ a petrol/pressure/rain/speed gauge. ၄။ [C] တစ္စံုတစ္ရာကို ခန္႔မွန္း (သို႔) အကဲျဖတ္ရာတြင္ သံုးသည့္ အေျခခံအေၾကာင္း၊ အခ်က္။ စံ။ ေပတံ။ Is a person's behaviour under stress a reliable gauge of their character? v ၁။ (က) တိုင္းတာသည္။ တြက္ခ်က္သည္။ precision instruments which can gauge the diameter to a fraction of a millimetre. (ခ) ခန္႔မွန္းသည္။ gauging the strength of the wind from the movement of the trees. ၂။ မွန္းသည္။ ခန္႔မွန္းသည္။ အကဲျဖတ္သည္။ try to gauge sb’s reactions/sympathies/sentiments ❍ It was difficult to gauge how people would respond. ❍ I gauged that it was not a good moment to speak to her.

Examples

1. The fuel/pressure gauge
2. A rain/snow/hail gauge
3. A small-gauge needle
4. Heavy-gauge plastic
5. A narrow-gauge railway
6. A 12-gauge shotgun
7. New orders are a gauge of how well manufacturers are doing.