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Term: measures

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measures

Definitions

Noun

  1. Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
  2. How much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
  3. A statute in draft before it becomes law
  4. The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
  5. A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
  6. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
  7. Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
  8. Measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
  9. A container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance

Verb

  1. Determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
  2. Express as a number or measure or quantity
  3. Have certain dimensions
  4. Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
Fragment Sounds Like Spelled Like Words That Follow Words That Precede Statistically Associated Consonant Match

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "measures".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 measures 2 49
2 countermeasures 4 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "measures".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 matters 2 64
2 motors 2 50
3 mother's 2 36
4 mothers 2 25
5 makers 2 19
6 manners 2 15
7 murders 2 12
8 meters 2 11
9 miller's 2 6
10 mergers 2 5
11 miners 2 5
12 minors 2 5
13 emperors 3 4
14 empires 3 4
15 mahler's 2 4
16 mirrors 2 4
17 mothers' 2 4
18 movers 2 4
19 emperor's 3 3
20 majors 2 3
21 messrs. 2 3
22 motors' 2 3
23 muller's 2 3
24 manors 2 1
25 messrs 2 1
26 muggers 2 1
27 mutters 2 1
28 smokers 2 1
29 ammeters 3 0
30 empire's 3 0
31 empowers 3 0
32 magers 2 0
33 mailer's 2 0
34 mailers 2 0
35 mainers 2 0
36 major's 2 0
37 majors' 2 0
38 maker's 2 0
39 makers' 2 0
40 maners 2 0
41 mathers 2 0
42 matter's 2 0
43 meaders 2 0
44 meadors 2 0
45 measure's 2 0
46 medders 2 0
47 meiners 2 0
48 merger's 2 0
49 metres 2 0
50 millers 2 0
51 miner's 2 0
52 miners' 2 0
53 mirror's 2 0
54 misers 2 0
55 motor's 2 0
56 mousers 2 0
57 mozer's 2 0
58 mssrs 2 0
59 mssrs. 2 0
60 murmurs 2 0
61 mushers 2 0
62 smathers 2 0
63 smethers 2 0
64 smithers 2 0
65 smoker's 2 0
66 smokers' 2 0
67 smothers 2 0
68 umpires 3 0

Spelled Like

Words that are spelled similarly to the term "measures".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 measure 2 91
2 measured 2 66
3 measurements 3 54
4 treasures 2 6
5 pleasures 2 6
6 assures 2 6
7 measurable 4 5
8 measles 2 2
9 leasure 2 1
10 ensures 2 1
11 treasuries 3 1
12 measure's 2 0
13 measurex 3 0
14 meares 1 0
15 reassures 3 0
16 matures 2 0
17 easudes 3 0
18 treasurers 3 0
19 megastores 3 0
20 sures 1 0

Words That Follow

Words that often follow the term "measures" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 measures were 1 2

Words That Precede

Words that often precede the term "measures" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq

Statistically Associated

Words that are statistically associated with "measures" in the same piece of text.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 desperate 2 2
2 following 3 2
3 police 2 2

Consonant Match

Words that contain the same consonants as the term "measures".

# Word Syllables Freq

Results:

Term

Definitions: 13

Fragments: 2

Sound Alikes: 68

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 1

Words that Precede: 0

Statistically Associated: 3

Consonant Matches: 0

Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.

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