"measure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had placed a series of long stakes deep into the sand along the dune's edge, then had watched, meticulously measuring the daily movement of the dune, using the stakes as his baseline, then marking those measurements down on a chart in the back of his journal.
- Enco opened a pair of callipers and meticulously measured the span.
- Eric measures meticulously, but fails as he failed to account for his slanted floor, leaving his shelves unlevel.
- Freddy set to work, meticulously measuring powder, shaking it with boiled water, adding the basic protocarb product most crew called milk.
- Santorio Santorio spent a large portion of 30 years living on a platform meticulously measuring his daily weight combined with that of his intake and excretion in an effort to test Galen's theory that the respiration occurs through the skin as perspiratio insensibilis (insensible perspiration).
- Over five decades she meticulously measured and mapped the intricate giant glyphs, swept away an accumulation of black dust to restore 1,000 of the lines to their original brilliance and used her own funds to hire guards and finance research projects.
- From 1911 to 1913, Hess made ten flights to meticulously measure ionization levels.
- The company meticulously measured the publicity it derived from the extensive newspaper and television coverage of the trip: a total of 240 million "brand impressions" that would have cost $6.7 million to buy as advertising.
- It brought me up short, sweating, until I could breathe again, so carefully, meticulously measuring in- and exhalations.
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