1. measure
They require a lot of equipment, safety measures, and well-trained and qualified instructors.
preventive measures
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
As yardsticks to measure the effectiveness of information retrieval there exist those called 'recall ratio' and 'precision ratio'.
Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.
Lately it's not so fashionable to measure success by how far you climb up the corporate ladder.
While the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.
In my work, I sometimes simply determine an area with a tape measure.
There is a second way to define the Gabriel-Roiter measure which may be more intuitive.
We are, in large measure, responsible for students' success in the entrance exam.
Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Looks, brains, reflexes, rich family and, for good measure, vice president of the student committee - in other words he's 'perfect'.
I must measure a biulding because I want to put a new conveyor inside it.
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
Anglais mot "a medida"(measure) se produit dans des ensembles:
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