40 Verbs to Use for the Word measurements

In the first place, the Paris police have never taken his Bertillon measurements.

When we leave the problems of life, such as shopping, keeping records of games and making measurements for construction; and when we begin to work with pure number, we are said to be dealing with the abstract.

When I had finished my measurements I went over the entire series of bones in detail, examining each with the closest attention for any of those signs which Thorndyke had indicated, and eliciting nothing but a monotonously reiterated negative.

The large wards considerably exceed these measurements, and their tasteful decoration gives them a characteristic style.

The geographers of antiquity used to speak of it, giving the measurement of its terrible arms.

OLSON, WILLARD C. Tie measurement of nervous habits in normal children.

The total growth for 1885 was 31-15/16 inches; for 1886, leaving out the measurement of the twig whose entire growth was in that year, 109-3/4 inches or nearly 3-1/2 times as much.

They talked the matter over seriously, and agreed about getting a measurement of some sort for the ring.

That he ever reached 2,000 pounds is doubtful in my mind, but, by comparing measurements of skins, we can be sure he comes up to 1,200, or a little over.

All the capes of the promontory challenged him to double them, swimming like a dolphin; he felt impelled to measure all the bays and coves with his arms, like a proprietor who distrusts another's measurements and rectifies them in order to affirm his right of possession.

And so the work of a bridge builder, whether it is creating out of a mere jumble of facts and figures a giant structure, the shaping of glowing metal to exact measurements, the delving in the slime under water for firm foundations, or the throwing of webs of steel across yawning chasms or over roaring streams, is never monotonous, is often adventurous, and in many, many instances is a great civilising influence.

This Chapman's book does to the best purpose possible under the circumstances, in what is technically termed the right-line system of drawing,that is, the reduction of all forms to their approximate geometrical figures in order to facilitate the measurements of the eye.

First of all, we must follow these measurements.

Love hath no measurements of height, or depth, or space, But yet within a little grave it oft hath found a place.

At this primordial stage neither Time nor Space can be recognized, for both imply measurement of successive intervals, and in the primary movement of Mind upon itself the only consciousness must be that of Present Absolute Being, because no external points exist from which to measure extension either in time or space.

I returned quietly, creepily, to the tent, first taking another exhaustive look round andyes, I confess itmaking a few measurements.

He took monthly measurements of the circumference of his children's heads during the first few years of their lives, and he laid down the successive measurements on the successive lines of a piece of ruled paper, by taking the edge of the paper as a base.

Your dress clotheswhich seemed to suit you very well last nightgave us your measurements.

He returned to the tree, noting the measurement in his book as he did so, and then repeated the process, walking backwards with his eye fixed on the window, but this time taking a line more to the left.

The first reference to woodwork is to be found in the Book of Genesis, in the instructions given to Noah to make an Ark of gopher wood, "to make a window," to "pitch it within and without with pitch," and to observe definite measurements.

But, in 1679, his mind again reverted to the subject; and in 1682, having obtained a correct measurement of the diameter of the earth, he repeated his calculations of 1666.

Apparently unconscious of his gaze, she began to pace out the measurements and then, placing the tools in his hands, urged him to lose no time.

This aims to be an exact science of the relations between body and mind, and to reach indirectly what Herbart failed to reach by direct methods, that is, a measurement of psychical magnitudes, using in this attempt the least observable differences in sensations as the unit of measure.

Progress in learning is best observable when we represent our measurements graphically, when they take the form of a curve, variously called "the curve of efficiency," "practice curve," "learning curve.

I saw at once that there was a signal difference in the two indications, and proceeded carefully to revise the earth-measurements.

40 Verbs to Use for the Word  measurements