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gages

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gages

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Because it is a word with a single syllable, gages is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

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Definitions ofgages

1noun
  • Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
  • Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.
1noun
  • A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.
1noun
  • A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
  • An act of measuring.
  • An estimate.
  • Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
  • A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
  • The distance between the rails of a railway.
  • A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
  • The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
  • Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.

    Example: "A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it."

  • The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
  • (plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
  • That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
  • A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
  • (by extension) A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
  • A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.

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