Gauge vs. Size

Gaugenoun

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard

Sizenoun

An assize.

Gaugenoun

An act of measuring.

Sizenoun

(obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.

Gaugenoun

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things

Sizenoun

(obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.

Gaugenoun

A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.

Sizenoun

The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.

‘The size of the building seemed to have increased since I was last there.’;

Gaugenoun

(rail transport) The distance between the rails of a railway.

Sizenoun

(obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.

Gaugenoun

A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.

Sizenoun

A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.

‘I don't think we have the red one in your size.’;

Gaugenoun

(knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.

Sizenoun

(graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.

Gaugenoun

(nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.

‘A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.’;

Sizenoun

Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.

Gaugenoun

(nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.

Sizenoun

An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.

Gaugenoun

(plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.

Sizenoun

A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.

Gaugenoun

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.

Sizenoun

Wallpaper paste.

Gaugenoun

(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.

Sizenoun

The thickened crust on coagulated blood.

Gaugenoun

A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).

Sizenoun

Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.

Gaugenoun

A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.

Sizeverb

(transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.

Gaugeverb

(transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.

Sizeverb

(transitive) To classify or arrange by size.

Gaugeverb

(transitive) To estimate.

Sizeverb

(military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.

Gaugeverb

(transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.

Sizeverb

(mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.

Gaugeverb

To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.

Sizeverb

To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.

Gaugeverb

(transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.

Sizeverb

(intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.

Gaugeverb

(transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.

Sizeverb

To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

Gaugeverb

To measure or determine with a gauge.

Sizeverb

To swell; to increase the bulk of.

Gaugeverb

To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.

Sizeverb

(transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

Gaugeverb

To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.

‘The vanes nicely gauged on each side.’;

Sizenoun

Six.

Gaugeverb

To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.

Sizenoun

A thin, weak glue used in various trades, as in painting, bookbinding, paper making, etc.

Gaugeverb

To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.

‘You shall not gauge meBy what we do to-night.’;

Sizenoun

Any viscous substance, as gilder's varnish.

Gaugenoun

A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.

‘This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by.’; ‘There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds.’;

Sizenoun

A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize.

Gaugenoun

Measure; dimensions; estimate.

‘The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt.’;

Sizenoun

An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; - corresponding to battel at Oxford.

Gaugenoun

Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.

Sizenoun

Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.

Gaugenoun

Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; - usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.

Sizenoun

Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.

‘Men of a less size and quality.’; ‘The middling or lower size of people.’;

Gaugenoun

Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.

Sizenoun

A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.

Gaugenoun

The distance between the rails of a railway.

Sizenoun

An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, - used for ascertaining the size of pearls.

Gaugenoun

The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

Sizeverb

To cover with size; to prepare with size.

Gaugenoun

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.

Sizeverb

To fix the standard of.

Gaugenoun

a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.

Sizeverb

To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk.

Gaugenoun

accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared

Sizeverb

To swell; to increase the bulk of.

Gaugenoun

the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train

Sizeverb

To bring or adjust anything exactly to a required dimension, as by cutting.

‘We had to size up our fellow legislators.’;

Gaugenoun

the thickness of wire

Sizeverb

To take greater size; to increase in size.

‘Our desires give them fashion, and so,As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.’;

Gaugenoun

diameter of a tube or gun barrel

Sizeverb

To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.

Gaugeverb

judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);

‘I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds’;

Sizenoun

the physical magnitude of something (how big it is);

‘a wolf is about the size of a large dog’;

Gaugeverb

rub to a uniform size;

‘gauge bricks’;

Sizenoun

the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing);

‘he wears a size 13 shoe’;

Gaugeverb

determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation;

‘gauge the wine barrels’;

Sizenoun

any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics;

‘size gives body to a fabric’;

Gaugeverb

measure precisely and against a standard;

‘the wire is gauged’;

Sizenoun

the actual state of affairs;

‘that's the size of the situation’; ‘she hates me, that's about the size of it’;

Gaugeverb

adapt to a specified measurement;

‘gauge the instruments’;

Sizenoun

a large magnitude;

‘he blanched when he saw the size of the bill’; ‘the only city of any size in that area’;

Gaugeverb

mix in specific proportions;

‘gauge plaster’;

Sizeverb

cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)

Gaugenoun

an instrument that measures and gives a visual display of the amount, level, or contents of something

‘a fuel gauge’;

Sizeverb

sort according to size

Gaugenoun

a tool for checking whether something conforms to a desired dimension

‘mark out the details of the angled surfaces with a knife and gauge’;

Sizeverb

make to a size; bring to a suitable size

Gaugenoun

a means of estimating something

‘emigration is perhaps the best gauge of public unease’;

Sizeadjective

(used in combination) sized;

‘the economy-size package’; ‘average-size house’;

Gaugenoun

the thickness, size, or capacity of something, especially as a standard measure.

Sizenoun

the relative extent of something; a thing's overall dimensions or magnitude; how big something is

‘a forest the size of Wales’; ‘firms of all sizes’; ‘the schools varied in size’;

Gaugenoun

the diameter of a wire, fibre, tube, etc.

‘a fine 0.018-inch gauge wire’;

Sizenoun

extensive dimensions or magnitude

‘she seemed slightly awed by the size of the building’;

Gaugenoun

a measure of the diameter of a gun barrel, or of its ammunition, expressed as the number of spherical pieces of shot of the same diameter as the barrel that can be made from 1 lb (454 g) of lead

‘a 12-gauge shotgun’;

Sizenoun

each of the classes, typically numbered, into which garments or other articles are divided according to how large they are

‘I can never find anything in my size’;

Gaugenoun

the thickness of sheet metal or plastic

‘500-gauge polythene’;

Sizenoun

a person or garment corresponding to a particular numbered size

‘she's a size 10’;

Gaugenoun

the distance between the rails of a line of railway track

‘the line was laid to a gauge of 2 ft 9 ins’;

Sizenoun

a gelatinous solution used in glazing paper, stiffening textiles, and preparing plastered walls for decoration.

Gaugenoun

the position of a sailing ship to windward (the weather gage) or leeward (the lee gage) of another

‘the French fleet was heavily outnumbered but had the weather gage’;

Sizeverb

alter or sort in terms of size or according to size

‘twist drills are sized in millimetres’;

Gaugeverb

estimate or determine the amount, level, or volume of

‘astronomers can gauge the star's intrinsic brightness’;

Sizeverb

estimate or measure something's dimensions

‘she was trying to size up a room with a tape measure’;

Gaugeverb

judge or assess (a situation, mood, etc.)

‘she was unable to gauge his mood’;

Sizeverb

form an estimate or rough judgement of someone or something

‘the two men sized each other up’;

Gaugeverb

measure the dimensions of (an object) with a gauge

‘when dry the assemblies can be gauged exactly’;

Sizeverb

treat with size to glaze or stiffen

‘paper will adhere to sized walls better’;

Gaugeverb

made in standard dimensions

‘gauged sets of strings’;

Sizeadjective

having a specified size; sized

‘marble-size chunks of hail’;

Size

Size in general is the magnitude or dimensions of a thing. More specifically, geometrical size (or spatial size) can refer to linear dimensions (length, width, height, diameter, perimeter), area, or volume.