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    1. Melinda drove for nearly two hours, going far up into the Dublin mountains until her fuel gauge began to get low and then returned to her flat in the Dublin suburbs


    2. He pauses to look at me, trying to gauge if I understand


    3. I hear the door open behind me, Gary glances over my shoulder and I can gauge who has just walked in by the look in his eyes


    4. Her senses alert, she moved her feet a little, trying to gauge how treacherous the mud was


    5. ” George waited to gauge his son's reaction to this news


    6. The fuel gauge read empty yet the van was still


    7. ” He looked at Kaitlyn to gauge her reaction, “They are my little sisters


    8. ” He finally paused to gauge the effect of his decision upon his guests


    9. clerk closely – trying to gauge whether his faith was


    10. shoulder instinctively to gauge the distance to the door

    11. He looked at the spacing on the page of the notes of Scale 0 and tried to gauge the smaller octave's notes' spacing to conform to it


    12. availability of hot chocolate being the universal gauge for


    13. To see a gauge in our dream suggests that you need to better balance aspects of your life


    14. We must gauge the situation before we move


    15. She still could not gauge his sanity but there certainly seemed to be some kind of self-delusion involved


    16. He looked back at the gap and tried to gauge whether it was possible for him to jump it


    17. It was barely three kilometres further on and, as far as they could gauge, never strayed more than around fifty metres in any direction


    18. If there had been some invention that was able to measure excitement, the needle on its gauge would have


    19. He found it difficult to gauge any experience as being real, in this limited state


    20. Felix picked up the breathing mask, checked the digital oxygen gauge, and stretched its rubber straps over his head, leaving the mask over his forehead

    21. Both low wines and proof spirits are, to prevent frauds, now rated according to what they gauge in the wash


    22. When we went in the house I saw a twelve gauge shot gun in the corner


    23. William quickly glanced at Rachel to gauge her reaction to his suggestion


    24. Paul looked at her to gauge her response to his question


    25. The needle moved up and down the gauge as the plane maneuvered


    26. a steam gauge that read 190


    27. I looked up at the gauge


    28. in fascination as the needle on the steam gauge steadily rose to


    29. So what could I do now? I looked up at the pressure gauge


    30. agony, I rolled over and looked at the gauge

    31. was the steam pressure? The gauge! Check the gauge! But then


    32. She watched Homulkar intently as his seeming agitation quickly subsided, as if she was trying to gauge what her action had done to their welcome


    33. Feeling a sudden burst of energy overtake me, I swung my legs over the bed and sat up in an attempt to better gauge my surroundings


    34. Our gas gauge looked like an elevator


    35. again apologized and explained that his gauge must have been broken


    36. The gas gauge was showing almost empty, so I swung into the nearest gas station


    37. Suzuki looked at the gauge, and the blood drained from his face


    38. “Does the gauge show above empty or below empty?”


    39. I stopped chewing and stared at him, trying to gauge whether or not he was joking


    40. From the responses to the question, you can gauge how influential the competitor is on Twitter with its audience

    41. “That fuel tank still has three hundred gallons left!” shouted the driver as he tapped the gauge with his gloved hand


    42. to the bar, grabbed the 12 gauge shotgun with the sawed


    43. The herd had covered a surprising amount of ground Moshe noted as he looked back to gauge the traveling time left in the day


    44. engine, tapped on the altimeter gauge, the RPM gauge, and


    45. He looked at the fuel gauge and did some rapid calculations


    46. Court had noticed earlier the fuel gauge registered lower than their scheduled Bingo, the fuel level at which a pilot had to either head home or go for a tanker


    47. He looked long at them trying to gauge their acceptance of what he had said


    48. herd had covered a surprising amount of ground Moshe noted as he looked back to gauge the


    49. gauge, an accuracy of which to judge the misguidedness of


    50. and with his look fixed on the tiny bubbles, I could gauge our














































    1. towards the door and carefully gauged the distance


    2. Taking a few more general measurements, gauged by his own steps, he was satisfied of the necessary tasks required for preventing any future incursions


    3. He gauged fairly accurately and now had: Re 216, Mi 240, Fa 256, Sol 288, La 320, and Ti 360


    4. The effects were all that could be gauged


    5. Having gauged direction from the balloon, the enemy had poured down their merciless fire without exposure from volleys returned from two hundred feet below


    6. She gauged him again, taking in the rugged jaw and chiseled nose and cheekbones


    7. She gauged that she had him on a roll now and was ready to exploit her advantage


    8. She was a quiet one and since Calvin spent most of his time with White Shift—his senior officers—he hadn't yet gauged her skill or picked up much about her personality


    9. She snugged behind a column and gauged the situation outside


    10. `I see you have gauged her already,' Martin scooted over and opened the bed cover

    11. He offered his fullest cooperation over the signing of the pact with Russia, within the limits he gauged to be necessary for the maintenance of fundamental Polish interests


    12. While long-term debt and equity can be gauged in terms of cost and obligation,


    13. Since the cost of any capital component is gauged by its required


    14. as a proxy for the cost of equity, it must be gauged with a reference to the market


    15. Although some performance can be gauged by increases in the actual size of the


    16. The true worth of beta is gauged in relation to the other components of the CAPM


    17. forward- looking measures of prospective success and only current performance is gauged


    18. but it needs to be gauged by both its own performance and common standards for the


    19. standpoint, these funds must be gauged by the comparative risk/return profile of the


    20. can be readily gauged and the anesthetized area is momentarily bloodless

    21. Over their weeklong stay there, having gauged Sandhya’s ability to take things objectively, Raja Rao thought it fit to lead her on the realistic path of life


    22. No, I simply gave him a gueling two hour �job interview�, and gauged his merits as I watched him stammer


    23. Years ago, the number of websites linking to your site gauged link


    24. ” Again he paused and gauged Ashley’s reaction


    25. ” I willed him to taste the essence of my heartbeat, my veins throbbing in anticipation as he licked and stroked, then sucked; he suddenly stopped and gauged the reaction of my feelings


    26. Even from his infrequent, uncertain glances at her, he had gauged that she did not have the air of desperation that most of the females in the place exuded


    27. Richard was hunting in the forest and got himself gauged by a boar


    28. At what he gauged to be the appropriate moment he heaved upon it to freeze up the brake shoes against every wheel of the train, as he pulled back on the throttle


    29. head, but his hands and eyes were steady as he gauged


    30. I thoroughly gauged his disposition from his behaviour, and saw at once it would be folly to attempt humouring him

    31. But she had accurately gauged the quality of his love


    32. He gauged the height of his hood and that of the SUV’s bumper


    33. Puller eyed what was coming up and gauged the trajectory


    34. I put myself in the man's place and, having first gauged his intelligence, I try to imagine how I should myself have proceeded under the same circumstances


    35. The idea is to recognize that volatility can be gauged as being low, high, or in the middle of its historical range


    36. He gauged his position relative to the peephole in the door


    37. Actions and expenditures ought to be gauged for usefulness on a case by case basis


    38. I have mentioned above, that though Father Païssy, standing firm and immovable reading the Gospel over the coffin, could not hear nor see what was passing outside the cell, he gauged most of it correctly in his heart, for he knew the men surrounding him, well


    39. I pushed back my chair with a sudden noise that startled her; by the way she trembled, I gauged how tense her nerves must have been


    40. Speaking conservatively and in the light of recent experience, it is safe to assume and assert that production will be evenly gauged to consumptive requirements

    1. Once it seemed like there was nothing to do but watch gauges for awhile, Bahkmar asked, "How do we really know there is a female section to Al-Harron at all


    2. When the new crystal was installed he checked the master allocation gauges


    3. These (changing) attitudes gave rise to unprecedented consumer debt that (subsequently) skyrocketed through the ceiling; not to mention a ―misery‖ index that gauges our material insecurity


    4. Several gauges in the region which monitor water levels confirm the drought is causing major problems


    5. Our coolant and cylinder-head temperature gauges weren’t all that precise, but the needles moved, essentially


    6. I carefully watched the new gauges our mechanics had installed


    7. gauges in the marble where the blades had been imbedded


    8. tracing one of the gauges with a fingertip


    9. the base of the slave’s neck, where three deep gauges were left


    10. “You see these four gauges?” he asked, pointing to the small

    11. “What? Are you sure the gauges aren’t malfunctioning?”


    12. “Water is being injected, but the temperature gauges are inoperable, so we can


    13. Most of the gauges and monitors were inoperable, and there was


    14. The gauges showed that it


    15. According to the gauges, the Hydro cell was full


    16. Bender explained how the F-4 could protect itself from SAMs by using the Radar Homing and Warning gauges, the RHAW gear, as he called it


    17. "Everything looks okay on the gauges up here," Bender said on the intercom


    18. The big J75 engine rumbled and whined into life as the gauges moved like tiny semaphores


    19. They would keep his resume on hand in case they needed fixtures or gauges for any future job where such items weren't supplied by the customer—that happened on occasion


    20. “Sensors and gauges,” said Nick

    21. Two men in white jumpsuits monitored displays and gauges and ignored us


    22. Bob checked some gauges, looked at his watch, then picked up a large thermos flask from under a shelf


    23. gauges vibrate, but where does it get you? In the end, you’re still sitting in


    24. With its reactors at nearly full power for so long, the pilot of the XC-10, Major Robert Cardenas, started to watch with growing apprehension his fuel gauges


    25. actual, but better gauges the risk of these two components


    26. Ingrid looked briefly at her fuel gauges, then at the map display of her inertial navigation unit


    27. When these variables interact with the probability of default - which gauges the potential to cover interest expenses - a cost of bankruptcy can be estimated By multiplying the two


    28. intensity ratio that gauges the amount of fixed assets in a business


    29. Some idiot always forgot to check the gauges and ensure that energy supplies had been replenished, or else, some stupid service technician had forgotten a spanner somewhere which would short out some crucial electrical component or other


    30. 'Are you familiar with the Wrist Control Panel, Sir?' Midge looked at the small panel of buttons and gauges on the left sleeve of his suit and shook his head,

    31. 'What are you doing?' Midge asked, taken aback at his friend's seeming familiarity with the gauges and instruments


    32. The UPS bleeped, and suddenly the gauges and instruments sprang to life


    33. Stick checked his gauges,


    34. The symbols on the gauges made no sense to him, but the faces of all the gauges were divided into three parts; a red, a yellow, and a green


    35. The needles of the gauges all pointed to the green parts of the gauge face


    36. 'Ethel, can you give me a rundown of the face of the timer? What are the gauges and buttons and things for?'


    37. 'The gauges show the temperature readout from two different sources, but I can't tell exactly which


    38. 'One moment,' Midge answered as he checked the screen of the UPS, 'Yes, one of the gauges read 32


    39. The flashlight still lay shining on the floor, the detonators taped to the glass, and the gauges on the timer device seemingly hadn't changed


    40. The train rocked back and forth as it moved down the track, traveling about 90 kilometers an hour… Or, 60 miles an hour, according to the train’s gauges

    41. Even in the darkness Jacob recognized the tall black rectangular cabinets as electric cases by their switches and gauges


    42. checked the gauges but the oxygen had all gone; without oxygen only death


    43. Michael checked his gauges and, true to his word, Morgan had given him three


    44. He watched his gauges and saw the pressure rise


    45. The gauges showed that there was little air left in the tank, about an hour if


    46. He looked at his gauges and it was a shock to see that he had only fifteen


    47. He glanced at his gauges and was perturbed


    48. helmet and checked his gauges, he had plenty of air


    49. He checked the fuel gauges and was not surprised to see that the


    50. to provide gauges to constantly monitor pressure differentials to ensure that the higher pressure is





























    1. Berndt looks across at me, as though gauging whether I would be up for this or not


    2. He looks at Billy, gauging the strength of the man sitting next to him


    3. I thought he was past the prescribed age and merely gauging his abilities against a standard measure


    4. The skill necessary to this particular end was in identifying such utility and gauging its seizure


    5. Gauging the possible distance, Colling said a silent prayer as he continued to loudly plead, then he sprang up, his right arm outstretched, spinning completely around so that the stone smashed into Jalesow’s left temple


    6. gauging the honesty of the vendor responses


    7. Her eyes moved to the exit sign, gauging the distance


    8. directions, it stayed constant, gauging what was happening to


    9. Gauging our approach, we nipped into line ahead of a larger craft coming from the west


    10. Their price range seemed evenhanded when gauging each other, more-or-less watching the driver

    11. Addicts usually test the potency of the product by gauging the anaesthetic effect caused by rubbing the powder on their gums – the bigger buyers always apply the aluminium foil test


    12. Apparently Selena never excuses, because he looks gauging at me for a while and then turns his look to the screen again


    13. mining in Indian Springs?” He looked to the other councilmen, gauging


    14. Gauging the other three quadrants is a matter of factoring


    15. Foremost among these is the gauging of “similar” risk, and the need to price all sources of


    16. improvised throughout this text to assist the investor in better gauging risk


    17. judicious use of these combinations gives the analyst an advantage when gauging


    18. markets is one reason that the CAPM is a good tool for gauging the cost of equity: capital


    19. immeasurably aid the investor in gauging risk


    20. to gauging risk and positioning for long-term gains

    21. and the gauging of the risk that we encounter


    22. Gauging risk by observing the behavior of the


    23. one before the arrests and it also assisted him in gauging how many men could hide in amongst the


    24. The cadets shift their gaze, gauging reactions


    25. look to one another, gauging one another’s reactions


    26. They are skirting the outer permiter, gauging defensive capabilities and security sensors


    27. Another gauging of his psyche


    28. He fell on her again and thrust ever deeper, but slower now and watching her intently as he did so, gauging her response to his every move


    29. She looked upwards, gauging the position of the sun


    30. gauging by his crew’s reactions, they seemed to be agreeing with Tam's assessment

    31. Hillary had watched her companion’s accurate gauging of the intervals and


    32. She looks up and sees Thor staring at her, as though gauging her reaction


    33. Gauging his eyes, his face, even his heart


    34. Nightfall ceased his grooming and turned a gauging eye upon Edgar


    35. She was stunned to see him looking deeply into her eyes, obviously gauging her reaction


    36. Not until the day I decided to change the route I usually took when I went for a run," she paused, quietly gauging Alex's emotions


    37. Aya hid her true self from us for ages, gauging our intentions, but she came when she was called and decided she wanted to help


    38. One might hypothesize that the health of a culture could be determined in part by gauging to what degree those in positions of influence and authority embrace the traditions and beliefs upon which the society rests or the amount of embarrassment these figures exhibit by distancing themselves from these once-cherished notions


    39. Oak focused on each of Denver's band gauging them by their emotions, putting them into categories of ethical, cruel, weak minded, strong minded, and evil


    40. In a reverse of the process, implementing various treatment efforts and gauging

    41. the symbolism of eyes refers to its use as a method of gauging (seeking to understand) character and


    42. ’ He paused, as though gauging Elowen’s


    43. instant jerk of the rod, and then a quick gauging of the weight of the catch and the possibly


    44. from me with its defiant head raised as if gauging the distance between us


    45. An easier way to track that is by looking up and gauging where the rays of the sun is hitting


    46. Nevertheless he sat tight just viewing the slightly soiled photo creased by opulent curves, none the worse for wear however, and looked away thoughtfully with the intention of not further increasing the other's possible embarrassment while gauging her symmetry of heaving embonpoint


    47. But now is not the time to be gauging my emotions


    48. Do you understand?” He eases his finger in and out as he gazes down at me, gauging my reaction, his eyes burning


    49. He’s staring at me, gauging my reaction


    50. She knows I wouldn’t want a stranger watching me read this stuff, gauging my reactions

















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    Synonyms for "gauge"

    gage gauge bore caliber calibre standard of measurement approximate estimate guess judge calculate check calibrate mark measure assess weigh dial meter scale standard

    "gauge" definitions

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


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


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


    the thickness of wire


    diameter of a tube or gun barrel


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


    rub to a uniform size


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


    measure precisely and against a standard


    adapt to a specified measurement


    mix in specific proportions