GAUGED

Definitions: GAUGED

GAUGED

Adjective

1. Tested or measured by, or conformed to, a gauge.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Gauge

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "GAUGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Crosswords: GAUGED

English words defined with "GAUGED": Gaugeable, Gauged brick, Gauged mortar. (references)

Specialty definitions using "GAUGED": default risk, defaulting risk ♦ HEAD-GAUGE-UNIT OPERATOR ♦ lumber sorter, machine ♦ salient features of a project, set of cards, SORTER OPERATOR. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. (Tail Gunner Joe; writing credit: Lane Slate)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Conversion. Auto parts to artillery shells. Finished artillery shells are carefully gauged to ensure perfectly uniform ammunition for our fighting men. A converted Midwest auto plant is now producing these shells as efficiently as it turned out parts for.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Friedrich Nietzsche	The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	South Africa	The size of many of the deposits can be gauged by the fact that after more than a 100 years of mining, SA still has very large reserves and resources of most of these minerals. (references)
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"GAUGED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 82.11% of the time. "GAUGED" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	82.11%	78	37,656
Lexical Verb (past tense)	14.74%	14	93,893
Adjective (general or positive)	3.16%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	95	N/A

Expressions using "GAUGED": Gauged brick ♦ Gauged mortar. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "GAUGED": broad-gauged.
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Language		Translations for "GAUGED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		测量 (Gaged, Gaging, gauging, measured, measurement, measuring). (various references)

Danish		korrosionsinhibitorens virkning beror paa dens evne til at reagere med elektroden (the effect of the corrosion inhibitor can be gauged from its ability to interact with the electrode), kalkcementmørtel (cement-lime mortar, gauged mortar), elektronvekselvirkningen kan bestemmes ved en undersoegelse af adsorptionskinetikken (the electron interaction can be gauged by examining the adsorption kinetics), bastardmørtel (cement-lime mortar, gauged mortar). (various references)

Dutch		hoe de elektronen op elkaar inwerken kan worden nagegaan door de adsorptie vanuit kinetisch gezichtspunt te bestuderen (the electron interaction can be gauged by examining the adsorption kinetics), het effect van een corrosie-inhibitor berust op het vermogen om aan de elektrode op andere stoffen in te werken (the effect of the corrosion inhibitor can be gauged from its ability to interact with the electrode), bastaardmortel (cement-lime mortar, gauged mortar). (various references)

Finnish		korroosioinhibiitti (the effect of the corrosion inhibitor can be gauged from its ability to interact with the electrode). (various references)

French		mortier bâtard (gauged mortar), l'interaction électronique peut être caractérisée par un examen de la cinétique d'adsorption (the electron interaction can be gauged by examining the adsorption kinetics), l'effet de l'inhibiteur de corrosion est � rechercher dans ses capacités d'interaction � l'électrode (the effect of the corrosion inhibitor can be gauged from its ability to interact with the electrode). (various references)

German		geeicht, visierte, Maß aus (sized). (various references)

Greek		η ηλεκτρονική αλληλεπίδραση μπορεί να χαρακτηρισθεί από την εξέταση της κινητικής της προσρόφησης (the electron interaction can be gauged by examining the adsorption kinetics), η επίδραση του αναστολέα διάβρωσης πρέπει να αναζητηθεί από τις ικανότητές του να αλληλεπιδρά με το ηλεκτρόδιο (the effect of the corrosion inhibitor can be gauged from its ability to interact with the electrode), τσιμέντο-ασβεστοκονίαμα (cement-lime mortar, gauged mortar). (various references)

Hungarian		puffos ujj (gauged sleeves). (various references)

Italian		malta bastarda (cement-lime mortar, gauged mortar), l'effetto dell' inibitore di corrosione va ricercato nelle sue capacit� di interazione all' elettrodo (the effect of the corrosion inhibitor can be gauged from its ability to interact with the electrode), il tipo di interazione elettronico puo' essere caratterizzabile attraverso un esame della cinetica d'adsorbimento (the electron interaction can be gauged by examining the adsorption kinetics). (various references)

Korean		측� �하�" (calibrated, Gaged, measured). (various references)

Pig Latin		augedgay

Spanish		se puede determinar el tipo de interacción electrónica mediante un examen de la cinética de adsorción (the electron interaction can be gauged by examining the adsorption kinetics), mortero de cemento apagado (cement-lime mortar, gauged mortar), el efecto de un inhibidor consiste en su capacidad de interaccionar en el electrodo (the effect of the corrosion inhibitor can be gauged from its ability to interact with the electrode). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "GAUGED": misgauged, regauged. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"GAUGED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gague, Gaige, gaoge, gaouge, gaufe, gaug, Gaugi, gaugy, gauje, Gaungit, geoge, gluged, glugged, guage, lauged. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "GAUGED" (pronounced gā"jd)
4	g ā" j d	disengaged, engaged.
3	-ā" j d	aged, assuaged, caged, enraged, paged, raged, restaged, staged, upstaged, waged.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-g-u"
	-1 letter: gaged, gauge.
	-2 letters: aged, ague, egad, gaed, gage, gaud, gude.
	-3 letters: age, dag, due, dug, eau, egg, gad, gae, gag, ged.
	-4 letters: ad, ae, ag, de, ed.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-g-u"
	+2 letters: regauged, untagged.
	+3 letters: demagogue, misgauged, pedagogue.
	+4 letters: budgerigar, degaussing, demagogued, demagogues, desugaring, outbragged, outdragged, pedagogues, redarguing.
	+5 letters: budgerigars, bullyragged, chugalugged, decoupaging, demagoguery, demagoguing, goddaughter.
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