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n. 1 The addition of various materials to lime mortar 2 (context sewing English) A shirring. vb. (present participle of gauge English)
Usage examples of "gauging".
He studied the officer, gauging the Technic as a man who was supremely self-confident and accustomed to a position of authority.
Bellis could imagine their frantic work gauging aetherial currents, stoking and conjuring.
Gauging the proximity of schools in the area, I decided Mark probably attended Highland junior High and then Atherton or St.
The mail routine sweeps by again, and she watches it pass, gauging speed and direction, another dozen heartbeats, and it sweeps past again like a lighthouse beam.
I relied upon my wits, constantly observing, gauging the ebb and flow of hatred, the secret alliances, the undercurrents of despair.
Neelah glanced up at the control panel's chronometer, gauging how long Dengar and Boba Fett had been working over in the reconstructed web.
Had learned the many tricks of dodging Thread, gauging the varieties of Fall, of conserving the strength of beast and rider, of turning the mind from the horrors of a full scoring or a phosphine emission too close.
Gauging distance, he upped power a notch and turned Inconnu Deux toward the nearest Tsa, to pass behind it.
Droog held the discoidal nucleus firmly on the anvil, and gauging the distance and point of impact with precision, he struck the small dent he had made, with the bone hammer.
He looked at the stranger, watched him absorb what Donar had said, and he began gauging his chances of killing the man if it should come to that.
Granted, prolong made gauging age rather difficult, but Anton was sure this woman was almost as young as the teenager she looked to be.
He was thinking-measuring distances, gauging relative speeds, forecasting the Warward's attrition rate.
Each time he paused for the Surprise to take up the full force of the new thrust: this she did with immense spirit, with the buoyant living grace which so moved his heart - never was such a ship - and when she was moving perhaps as fast as she had ever moved, with her lee cathead well under the foam of her bow-wave, he laid one hand on the hances, feeling the deep note of her hull as he might have felt the vibrations of his fiddle, and the other on a backstay, gauging the exact degree of strain.
The Mouser joggled the rod slightly, gauging his aim before he dropped the claw.
They moved in with light meters and sensitive instruments that apparently were capable of gauging the sophistication and clarity of the ghost image.