n A prescribed quantity or extent.
n (obsolete) Moderation, temperance.
n A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
n An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
n The act or result of measuring.
n (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
n A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
n Any of various standard units of capacity.
n A unit of measurement.
n The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
n (now rare) The act or process of measuring.
n A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
n (mathematics, now rare) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.
n (geology) A bed or stratum.
n (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
n Metrical rhythm.
n (now archaic) A melody.
n (now archaic) A dance.
n (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
n (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
n A course of action.
n (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
n A piece of legislation.
v To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
v (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
v To estimate the unit size of something.
v To judge, value, or appraise.
v To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
v (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
v To adjust by a rule or standard.
v (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
v (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.