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    In American spelling, gage is another way to write gauge — the word for measuring, or for the tool that measures, or for how thick a wire is, how wide a railway is, how full a tank is. You will see it on factory labels and in older technical books: a pressure gage, a rain gage. In British English, and in most school books, gauge is the spelling people expect. The two are the same word; only the letters change. Though actually, English also has an older, separate gage meaning a pledge you throw down when you challenge someone. That is not this measuring word, even though it looks identical.

    (美式拼法)gauge;量表、量測

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組成This gage does not split: it is simply an American spelling of gauge. (A different word also spelled gage — a pledge or challenge — comes from Old French gage, from Frankish *waddi, the same deep root as wed, and is a doublet of wage. That is not this sense.)

同家族的字

  • gaugegage is an American spelling of the same measuring word

原始詞典資料23 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Gagename/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/

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    A surname originating as an occupation.

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    A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.

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    A female given name.

  • 4

    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

gageverb詞源 1/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/

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    To bind (someone) by pledge or security; to engage.

    • Great debts / Wherein my time, sometimes too prodigal, / Hath left me gaged.
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    archaicTo bet or wager (something).

    • O doe not goe, this feaſt (I'le gage my life) / Is but a plot to trayne you to your ruine, / Be rul'd, you ſha'not goe.
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    obsoleteTo deposit or give (something) as a pledge or security; to pawn.

    • A moiety competent / Was gaged by our king.

gagenoun詞源 1/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/

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    Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).

    • “But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage.” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…
    • "I'm nothing of the sort," exclaimed the MacQuibble, hurling down the gage of battle at once.
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    obsoleteSomething valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

    • [I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage, as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic.

gagenoun詞源 3/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/

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    A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

gagenoun詞源 4/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/

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    datedslangMarijuana

    • Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.
    • Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers... tobacco and "gage" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a proccess!
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    archaicslangA pint pot.

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    archaicslangA drink.

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    archaicslangA tobacco pipe.

    • Troll us a stave, my antediluvian file, and in the mean time tip me a gage of fogus, Jerry
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    archaicslangA chamber pot.

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    archaicslangA small quantity of anything.

    • GAGE, a small quantity of anything; as “a gage of tobacco,” meaning a. pipeful; “a gage of gin,” a glassful.
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    obsoleteA quart pot.

    • I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.
    • Harry. To pay, Moll, for I must hike. Moll. Did you call me, Master? Harry. Ay, to pay, in a Whiff. Moll. Let me see. There's a Grunter's Gig, is a Si-Buxom; two Cat's Heads, a Win; a Double Gage of Rum Slobber, is Thrums; and a Quartern of Max, is three Megs: — That makes a Traveller all but a Meg. Harry. Here, take your Traveller, and tip the Meg to the Kinchin.

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