measure out
Britishverb
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to pour or dole out
they measure out a pint of fluid
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to administer; mete out
they measured out harsh punishments
Example Sentences
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It measures roughly 10 kilometers wide and reaches depths of around 500 meters, features that are especially clear in the accompanying topographic view.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2026
They turned to David Blaauw, an electrical engineer and collaborator at the University of Michigan who produced a microprocessor chip that measures roughly 100 micrometers wide and contains a mere 128 bits of programmable memory.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 7, 2024
To put that into perspective - a human hair measures roughly 50,000 to 100,000 nanometres.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2022
When you average those four measures, roughly 37 percent of respondents were socially isolated in late April 2020.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021
The fuel ratio measures roughly the heat or calorific power of the coal, in other words, its fuel value.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
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