"the amount of water collected is measured in pints"

• be of (a specified size or degree)

  "the fabric measures 137 cm wide"

• ascertain the size and proportions of (someone) in order to make or provide clothes for them

  "he will be measured for his team blazer next week"

• take an exact quantity of something

  "she helped to measure out the ingredients"

"it is hard to measure teaching ability"

• judge someone or something by comparison with (a certain standard)

  "she did not need to measure herself against some ideal"

• reach the required or expected standard

  "I'm afraid we didn't measure up to the standards they set"

• scrutinize someone in order to form an assessment of them

  "the two shook hands and silently measured each other up"

"we must measure twenty miles today"

"cost-cutting measures"

• a legislative bill

  "the Senate passed the measure by a 48–30 vote"

"a furlong is an obsolete measure of length"

• a system or scale of units expressing size, amount, or degree of something

  "the dimensions were in imperial measure"

• a standard quantity or amount

  "heavy drinking may be five measures of spirits per day"

• a container of standard capacity used for taking fixed amounts of a substance

  "gifts have included silver measures from a whisky company"

• a graduated rod or tape used for ascertaining the size of something

  "most schools had only metric measures available"

• a quantity contained in another an exact number of times; a divisor
• the width of a full line of type or print, typically expressed in picas

"the states retain a large measure of independence"

• an indication of the degree, extent, or quality of something

  "his resignation is a measure of how angry he is"

• a particular metrical unit or group

  "measures of two or three syllables are more frequent in English prose"

• a bar of music or the time of a piece of music
• a dance, typically one that is stately

  "now tread we a measure!"