gaging
nounHow to pronounce gaging:
Definition of gaging:
- gaging (noun):
- the distance between the rails of a railroad
- the thickness of a thin material (such as sheet metal or plastic film)
- the diameter of a slender object (such as wire or a hypodermic needle)
- the fineness of a knitted fabric expressed by the number of loops per unit width
- a measurement (as of linear dimension) according to some standard or system such as
- the size of a shotgun barrel's inner diameter nominally expressed as the number of lead balls each just fitting that diameter required to make a pound
Synonyms for gaging:
calculating
conjecturing
estimating
figuring
guessing
judging
making
placing
putting
supposing
understanding
Antonyms for gaging:
correct amount
correct number
exact amount
exact number
exact value
precise amount
precise number
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- bakkie
- unbound
- sweetness
- dearer
- crunchy
- whetted
- Chepi
- truffle
- trucked
- Janaan
- crusher
- brashness
- scrabble
- ramen
- grumous
- vouchsafe
- smoothing
- pick up
- equaled
- yarely
- tourist
- bulldog
- sorer
- mesa
- encage
- claxons
- unvoiced
- clannish
- trickled
- naively
- ither
- washing
- unlatch
- placements
- drawling
- brattish
- sanely
- partly
- newfound
- messaged
- lightened
- draining
- drunken
- roundly
- minstrel
- speckled
- freshman
- essayed
- bedsheet
- heighten
- … more
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