Phrase Hound found 43 phrases and 3 compound words that contain gauges. The most common are listed below. Open gauges in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 43
- rail gaugesplural of rail gauge: The specified distance between the rails of a railway.
- rain gaugesplural of rain gauge: A device used in meteorology to measure rainfall.
- strain gaugesplural of strain gauge: A device that measures the strain in a structural element by measuring changes in electrical resistance of a sensor attached to the element under investigation.
- tide gaugesplural of tide gauge: A gauge for showing the height of the tide, particularly one continuously updated.
- track gaugesplural of track gauge: The specified distance between the rails of a railway.
- vacuum gaugesplural of vacuum gauge: An instrument that is used to measure very low pressures of gases.
- Johansson gaugesplural of Johansson gauge: A gauge block.
- feeler gaugesplural of feeler gauge: A set of thin metal strips, of known thickness, used to measure a narrow gap such as by go/no-go status or by the feel of how the gauge slides into the gap.
- broad gaugesplural of broad gauge: A track gauge that is greater than standard gauge.
- cream gaugesplural of cream gauge: An instrument to test milk, usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise.
- depth gaugesplural of depth gauge: An instrument to measure depth below a vertical reference surface. It is commonly used in underwater diving.
- dial gaugesplural of dial gauge: A gauge on an instrument panel with a dial face rather than an warning light or a digital display.
- ear gaugesplural of ear gauge: a piece of jewelry worn in a stretched ear piercing to maintain its size
- fuel gaugesplural of fuel gauge: An instrument, usually mounted on an instrument panel, which indicates the quantity of fuel in the fuel tank(s).
- gas gaugesplural of gas gauge: A gauge in a vehicle that shows how much gasoline remains in the vehicle.
- line gaugesplural of line gauge: A type of ruler used to measure by hand the spacing in prints, designs, mock-ups, and proofs.
- liquor gaugesplural of liquor gauge: A rod used by excisemen for measuring the depth of liquid in a cask.
- loading gaugesplural of loading gauge: The maximum permitted height and width for a rail vehicle, governed by clearances in tunnels, under bridges and past lineside structures.
- marking gaugesplural of marking gauge: tool used in woodworking and metalworking to scribe a line parallel to a reference edge or surface.
- mixed gaugesplural of mixed gauge: A description of a railway track with (usually) three rails, which enables trains of two different track gauges to run over it.
- narrow gaugesplural of narrow gauge: A track gauge less than standard gauge; such tracks; a railway that uses them.
- paper gaugesplural of paper gauge: A rule for measuring the typeface of matter to be printed, and the width of the margin.
- pear gaugesplural of pear gauge: A kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion (creation of a vacuum) of an air pump receiver (airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum).
- pressure gaugesplural of pressure gauge: An apparatus used to measure pressure in a tyre, pressurised tank, boiler etc.
- ring gaugesplural of ring gauge: A cylindrical ring of a thermally stable material, often steel, whose inside diameter is finished to gauge tolerance and is used for checking the external diameter of a cylindrical object.
Compound words 3
- downgaugesthird-person singular simple present indicative of downgauge: To reduce the gauge of; to make thinner.
- misgaugesthird-person singular simple present indicative of misgauge: To gauge (measure) incorrectly
- raingaugesplural of raingauge: A device used in meteorology to measure rainfall.