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Scientists have long known that the brain harbors the biological equivalent of a car’s fuel gauge—a complex homeostatic system that allows our gray matter to track the state of our basic biological needs, like those for food, water, and sleep.

Once the temperature gauge on top let us know that the grill was adequately heated, we loaded the 285-square-inch grate with all our meat at once.

Simultaneous increases in equity and volatility gauges are unusual, and a reason for concern for some.

From Fortune

They assess how financially healthy a company is and act as an independent gauge, letting investors in a company know how likely that company is to pay back its debt, for instance.

Use this activity from NASA to design and build your own rain gauge.

It took the entire day, but the slow pace indicated that it was probably a test to gauge public reaction.

So, he approached his nomadic friends to gauge their interest in the collaboration.

To gauge his level of truthfulness, I asked, “So, you wouldn't mind if I included your donor identification number in the story?”

The only gauge of normality that young people have is their observation of each other.

When a soldier is hit by an IED the gauge records the event.

The gauge of railways in Great Britain was not fixed upon any scientific principle.

Trevithick determined in future to use two safety-valves, and also a safety steam-gauge.

The Commonwealth has for some time been considering the conversion of the lines into one standard gauge, the British gauge of 4ft.

The leaf is held in one hand and the gauge and knife in the other, the edge of the leaf being drawn through the gauge.

For this purpose there is used in most localities a small gauge held between the thumb and index fingers.

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On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gauge, such as: barometer, benchmark, criterion, indicator, meter, and pattern.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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