Definizione monolingua

gage

gage (third-person singular simple present gages, present participle gaging, simple past and past participle gaged)

1. Alternative spelling of gauge. To measure.
2. (obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn
3. (archaic) To wager, to bet.

gage (plural gages)

1. Something, such as a glove or other pledge thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     “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…

   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 166:

     The gage was down for a duel that would split the Democratic party and ensure the election of a Republican president in 1860.

2. Alternative spelling of gauge. Used especially as a technical term of measuring devices and standard measures.
3. A form of jewelry which creates a hole of variable size in the earlobe, popular especially among some young people in the West, perhaps on analogy with similar devices found in various non-Western indigenous cultures.
4. A short form of greengage.
5. (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

Definizione dizionario gage

	susino
	Fruit tree belonging to the genus Prunus of the Rosaceae family, cultivated for its fruits, plums

calibro

misura

misurare

pegno

Altri significati:

(obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

A form of jewelry which creates a hole of variable size in the earlobe, popular especially among some young people in the West, perhaps on analogy with similar devices found in various non-Western indigenous cultures.

(archaic) To wager, to bet.

Alternative spelling of gauge. Used especially as a technical term of measuring devices and standard measures.

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

Alternative spelling of gauge. To measure.

(obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn

A short form of greengage.