Usually means: Measurement standard for size, thickness.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. gauge: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gauge: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gauge: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gauge: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gauge: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gauge, gauge: Wordnik
  7. -gauge, gauge: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gauge, gauge: Wiktionary
  9. gauge: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gauge: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gauge: Dictionary.com
  12. gauge: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. gauge: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Gauge (Shotgun), Gauge (actress), Gauge (band), Gauge (bore diameter), Gauge (disambiguation), Gauge (engineering), Gauge (firearms), Gauge (instrument), Gauge (knitting), Gauge (mathematics), Gauge (needle), Gauge (porn star), Gauge (pornographic actress), Gauge (shotgun), Gauge (software), Gauge: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gauge: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gauge: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gauge: Rhymezone
  18. gauge: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gauge: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. gauge: Free Dictionary
  21. gauge: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. gauge: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. gauge: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. gauge: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. gauge (gage): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gauge: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Beading Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
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  3. gauge: Legal dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gauge: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. gauge: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gauge: Sound Alike Words
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  3. gauge: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GAUGE: Acronym Finder

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gauge: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Gauge: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. gauge: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. gauge, gauge, gauge: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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  3. gauge: The Folk File

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Gauge: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. gauge: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
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  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
noun:  An act of measuring.
noun:  An estimate.
noun:  Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
noun:  A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes, with lower numbers indicating larger size.
noun:  (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
noun:  (knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
noun:  (nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
noun:  (nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
noun:  (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
noun:  That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
noun:  (firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
noun:  (US, slang, by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
noun:  A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
verb:  (transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
verb:  (transitive) To estimate.
verb:  (transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
verb:  (textile, transitive) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
verb:  (transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
verb:  (transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
noun:  A male given name
noun:  (rail transport) Ellipsis of track gauge. [(rail transport) The specified distance between the rails of a railway.]
noun:  (rail transport) Ellipsis of loading gauge. [(rail transport, UK) The maximum permitted height and width for a rail vehicle, governed by clearances in tunnels, under bridges and past lineside structures.]

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