GAUGING

Definition: GAUGING

GAUGING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Gauge

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "GAUGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1882. (references)

Specialty Definitions: GAUGING

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	1. determining the capacity of casks or vats by means of a gauge or gauging stick;2. measuring the amount of wine in a container with a wooden batten marked in gallons(Australie). Source: European Union. (references)
	The work of measuring the various dimensions and capacities of a ship in order to get the tonnage for official registration. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: GAUGING

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Measurement	Noun: measurement, admeasurement, mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate, estimation; dead reckoning, reckoning; (numeration); gauging; Verb: horse power.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: GAUGING

English words defined with "GAUGING": Gauge point, Gauging rod, Glance wood ♦ Planometer, Planometry ♦ Sliding gauge, surface gauge. (references)

Specialty definitions using "GAUGING": ACID-POLYMERIZATION OPERATOR ♦ BALL SORTER, blade aligner, BRIDGE INSPECTOR ♦ CISTERN-ROOM OPERATOR, cistern-room working supervisor ♦ DISPATCHER, RELAY, district supervisor ♦ EXPLOSIVE-OPERATOR SUPERVISOR ♦ FAN-BLADE ALIGNER, fan-blade truer, field gauger, FOUR-SLIDE-MACHINE OPERATOR I ♦ GAUGE-AND-WEIGH-MACHINE ADJUSTER, GAUGE-AND-WEIGH-MACHINE OPERATOR, gauger, chief delivery ♦ INSPECTOR, SET-UP AND LAY-OUT ♦ lease supervisor, line-up-machine operator, loading-unit plate filler ♦ multiple-slide operator ♦ pipe-line gauger, plate filler, process pumper, pump operator, PUMPER HELPER ♦ SHAKER-PLATE OPERATOR, SHOT DROPPER, slide-forming-machine operator, Smartdrive, STILL-OPERATOR HELPER, STILL-PUMP OPERATOR, subwarehouse supervisor, SUPERVISOR, FIELD PIPELINES, SUPERVISOR, PRODUCTION, SUPERVISOR, TREATING AND PUMPING ♦ TANK CALIBRATOR, tank-farm gauger, terminal gauger, terminal-gauger supervisor, treating and pumping supervisor. (references)

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Commercial Usage: GAUGING

Domain	Title
Books	Automatic Tank Gauging, Part V: Institute of Petroleum; Petroleum Measurement Manual (reference) Evaluating Technology-Based Economic Development: Gauging the Impact of Publicly-Funded Programs (reference) Gauging Public Opinion (reference) Gauging Success in Information Technology Outsourcing [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Gauging the risk for violence : measurement, impact and strategies for change (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: GAUGING

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Iden, New Mexico. Section gang raising, surfacing and gauging the track in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn.Credit: Library of Congress.		Iden, New Mexico. Section gang raising, surfacing and gauging the track in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard. Assistant foreman is lining the track between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Gypsum gauging plaster. Greenbelt, Maryland.Credit: Library of Congress.		It has to be right. Gauging the diameter of the barrel of a Garand rifle following grinding. An eastern armory is turning out these rifles for the war program.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: GAUGING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The Hydrological Research Institute makes use of image processing equipment, construction, operation and maintenance of river-flow gauging stations. (references)
Economic History	Bulgaria	First-hand observation on the streets and in the shops is essential for gauging the amount of actual economic activity in Bulgaria. (references)
Worker Rights	South Africa	The women generally travel alone; upon arrival they are met by an agent at the airport and taken to a house in the Gauging province, Eastern or Western Cape, or Kwazulu Natal. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: GAUGING

"GAUGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "GAUGING" is used about 30 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 (-ing form)	96.67%	29	64,444
Noun (singular)	3.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	30	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: GAUGING

Expression using "GAUGING": Gauging rod. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GAUGING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
gauging	23
ear gauging	22
tank gauging	10
bore gauging	6
gauging radar saab tank	5
gauging instrument tank	4
price gauging	4
fuel gauging	4
thickness gauging	4
fixture gauging	4
gauging optical product	3
gauging inc system	3
gauging n neals train	2
gauging station wireless	2
gauging system	2
gauging piercing	2
gauging radar tank	2
chemical gauging	2
dimensional gauging	2
gauging oil tape	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GAUGING

Language		Translations for "GAUGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		测量 (Gaged, Gaging, Gauged, measured, measurement, measuring). (various references)

Danish		skibsmåling (admeasurement, measurement), måling af rumindhold (dipping). (various references)

Dutch		scheepsmeting (admeasurement, measurement), inhoudsmeting (dipping). (various references)

Finnish		vaa'ata (dipping), mittaus (admeasurement, measurement, measuring), mitata tilavuus (dipping). (various references)

French		jaugeage (gaging), emmétrage, calibrage (gaging). (various references)

German		visierend, eichend, ausmessend (sizing). (various references)

Greek		καλιμπράρισμα των βαρελιών (dipping), καταμέτρηση πλοίου (admeasurement, measurement). (various references)

Italian		verifica (audit, check, check out, checking, control, examination, verification), stazzatura (admeasurement, measurement), misura (bar, bounds, dimensions, fitting, Gage, gauge, limit, measure, measurement, measurements, moderation, numerical value, proportion, size, step, time), cubatura (cubage, cubing, dipping, measuring of volume, yardage). (various references)

Korean		측� � (Gaging, measure, measuring). (various references)

Pig Latin		auginggay

Portuguese		pareação (dipping), medição (admeasurement, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, meterage, metering), cubicagem (dipping), cubagem (cubage, dipping, scaling, volume), arqueação (admeasurement, bowing, measurement, tonnage). (various references)

Russian		гидрометрическая станция (gauging-station). (various references)

Spanish		medida del arqueo (admeasurement, measurement), aspillar (dipping), arqueo (admeasurement, arching, bowing, burden, measurement, registered tonnage, tonnage). (various references)

Swedish		uppmätning (dipping). (various references)

Turkish		ayar belirleme (assay), ölçme (measurement, measuring, mensural, mensuration, metage, survey, surveying). (various references)

Vietnamese		trạm thuỷ văn (gauging-station). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: GAUGING

Derivations
	Words ending with "GAUGING": misgauging, regauging. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"GAUGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gakuin, gaoging, Gaudino, Gaughin, Gaugi, Gavurin, glugging, guaging. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "GAUGING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "GAUGING" (pronounced gā"jing)
5	g ā" j i ng	disengaging, engaging.
4	-ā" j i ng	aging, enraging, paging, raging, staging, waging.
3	-j i ng	acknowledging, alleging, arbitraging, arranging, avenging, averaging, besieging, bridging, bulging, challenging, changing, charging, converging, cringing, damaging, discharging, discouraging, dislodging, disparaging, diverging, divulging, dodging, dredging, edging, emerging, encouraging, enlarging, exchanging, fledging, foraging, forging, fudging, gouging, grudging, hedging, hemorrhaging, imaging, indulging, infringing, judging, leveraging, lodging, lounging, lunging, managing, merging, messaging, micromanaging, mischarging, mismanaging, mortgaging, nudging, obliging, outraging, overcharging, packaging, pillaging, pledging, plunging, presaging, purging, rampaging, ranging, ravaging, rearranging, recharging, repackaging, resurging, rummaging, salvaging, savaging, scavenging, scrounging, shortchanging, splurging, surging, trudging, unchanging, urging, verging.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: GAUGING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-g-i-n-u"
	-1 letter: gaging.
	-2 letters: aging.
	-3 letters: agin, gain, gang, gaun, giga, guan, unai.
	-4 letters: ain, ani, gag, gan, gig, gin, gnu, gun, nag.
	-5 letters: ag, ai, an, in, na, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-g-i-n-u"
	+2 letters: regauging.
	+3 letters: misgauging, unflagging.
	+4 letters: demagoguing, outbragging, outdragging.
	+5 letters: agglutinogen, bullyragging, chugalugging, unflaggingly.
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