Definitions for gages

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Spelling: [geyj]

IPA: /geɪdʒ/

Gages is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in gages (aeggs).

Definitions for gages

noun

1. something, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat.
2. Archaic. a challenge.
3. Archaic. a pledge or pawn; security.
4. greengage.
5. Thomas, 1721–87, British general in America 1763–76.
6. a standard of measure or measurement.
7. a standard dimension, size, or quantity.
8. any device or instrument for measuring, registering measurements, or testing something, especially for measuring a dimension, quantity, or mechanical accuracy:
9. a means of estimating or judging; criterion; test.
10. extent; scope; capacity:
11. Ordnance. a unit of measure of the internal diameter of a shotgun barrel, determined by the number of spherical lead bullets of a diameter equal to that of the bore that are required to make one pound:
12. Railroads. the distance between the inner edges of the heads of the rails in a track, usually 4 feet 8.5 inches (1.4 meters) (standard gauge) but sometimes more (broad gauge) and sometimes less (narrow gauge)
13. the distance between a pair of wheels on an axle.
14. the thickness or diameter of various, usually thin, objects, as the thickness of sheet metal or the diameter of a wire or screw.
15. the fineness of a knitted fabric as expressed in loops per every 1.5 inches (3.8 cm):
16. Nautical. the position of one vessel as being to the windward (weather gauge) or to the leeward (lee gauge) of another vessel on an approximately parallel course.
17. Building Trades. the portion of the length of a slate, tile, etc., left exposed when laid in place.
18. the amount of plaster of Paris mixed with mortar or common plaster to hasten the set.

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to pledge, stake, or wager.
2. to determine the exact dimensions, capacity, quantity, or force of; measure.
3. to appraise, estimate, or judge.
4. to make conformable to a standard.
5. to mark or measure off; delineate.
6. to prepare or mix (plaster) with a definite proportion of plaster of Paris and mortar.
7. to chip or rub (bricks or stones) to a uniform size or shape.

noun, verb (used with object)

1. gauge.

Origin of gages

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Germanic; see wage

Examples for gages

gage knew too well that others of the companies were thoroughly disaffected.

The gage had been thrown down to Andrew, and he dared not pick it up.

gage had become prone to fits of rage and inappropriate behavior.

That same year, the LAPD appealed for help after a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in the area of Hoover and gage Avenues.

I flung my gauntlet of buffalo-hide at his feet in gage of battle.

That means six years, at least, of 30-hour gym days and, at gage, $600-a-month training costs.

Even Samuel Adams, so reasoned the advisers of gage, might be bought.

But Grimes estimates that there are roughly 20 girls at gage training at elite levels, and writing those accompanying checks.

At the time, the LAPD appealed for help after a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in the area of Hoover and gage avenues.

To be sure, gage was a trifle disingenuous in reviewing the past.