What's the difference between hurtle and measure?

Hurtle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
  • (v. t.) To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.
  • (v. t.) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
  • (v. t.) To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish.
  • (v. t.) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Japan's efforts were widely regarded as too late, coming after many years of pain, but the Bank of Japan is now at it all over again, as the Japanese economy hurtles into a severe recession.
  • (2) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
  • (3) For 20 years the great British inequality machine has hurtled on, driven largely by the burgeoning incomes of this top 0.1% – almost all of whom are directors, bankers or work in business services and real estate – who captured the lion’s share of any gains in real productivity.
  • (4) We hurtled into Barcelona at speeds that should have torn Eglantine's juddering Peugeot 205 apart.
  • (5) A Barça attack broke down deep in Madrid territory and the ball was quickly slipped to Bale, who, from the half-way line, hurtles forward, playing the ball past Bartra and running on to it again and into the box.
  • (6) The books there can take you back in time or hurtle you into the future.
  • (7) Pisczek hurtles up from the back to join in but his shot from the edge of the area is well blocked by Ramos.
  • (8) I will admit that we often "hurtle", but not in a reassuring way.
  • (9) Kyle Walker hurtled down the right and picked out Alli, who, like Son for the first goal, had found space in the middle of the area and took full advantage.
  • (10) Gradually adjusting to a summer evening's long shadows, you register that all those elements are held in place by a single, dead straight Roman road, hurtling away from the canvas's foreground to far-off mountains.
  • (11) Muller then rolled the ball from a narrow angle towards the net... but Subotic produced an improbable twist by hurtling back to clear off the line, right under Robben, who was trying to escort the ball into the net rather than stretch and actually poke it in.
  • (12) Bale only threatened intermittently now, another wondrous free-kick from him in the 69th minute hurtling inches wide.
  • (13) He was accused of murderous human rights abuses, had been convicted in absentia of corruption and the club was hurtling towards ruin.
  • (14) Instead of sagely drawing back, Pyongyang's generals are recklessly hurtling forward.
  • (15) Karl Sabbagh Newbold on Stour, Warwickshire • Might I suggest Ian Birrell samples the delights of Northern Rail's rolling stock on its non-electrified lines before claiming "we hurtle along in slick modern trains".
  • (16) Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has come under fire for a suggestive election advert as the party's popularity hurtles towards record lows.
  • (17) The boss of PKO Bank Polski predicted that Europe was hurtling towards its Lehman moment, with Portugal, Spain, and Italy being dragged into the slipstream of a Greek exit.
  • (18) Hopefully for Sniper Elite V3 there'll be an even more comprehensive kill sequence in which, after an even more explicit close-up of the bullet boring a path through some Nazi intestine, the camera hurtles to the other side of the world and shows his sweetheart's expression as she receives a telegram announcing his death.
  • (19) She even posed as Bruce Bechdel in his coffin - "I put on a jacket and tie and crossed my arms" - and revisited the place of his death, where she took pictures of trucks hurtling by.
  • (20) Just before I hurtled off into the abyss, the wind seized my parachute and whisked me up into the air.

Measure


Definition:

  • (n.) A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
  • (n.) An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.
  • (n.) The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.
  • (n.) The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.
  • (n.) Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.
  • (n.) Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion.
  • (n.) The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.
  • (n.) Undefined quantity; extent; degree.
  • (n.) Regulated division of movement
  • (n.) A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the minuet.
  • (n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.
  • (n.) The space between two bars.
  • (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure.
  • (a.) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers.
  • (a.) A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure.
  • (a.) The act of measuring; measurement.
  • (a.) Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures.
  • (n.) To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise.
  • (n.) To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.
  • (n.) To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.
  • (n.) To adjust by a rule or standard.
  • (n.) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; -- often with out or off.
  • (v. i.) To make a measurement or measurements.
  • (v. i.) To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.
  • (v. i.) To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, volumes, and temperatures of expired gas were measured from the tracheal and esophageal tubes.
  • (3) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (4) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (5) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (6) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (7) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
  • (8) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (9) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (10) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (11) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (12) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
  • (13) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (14) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
  • (15) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (16) All subjects completed the Coping Strategies Questionnaire, which measures the use and perceived effectiveness of a variety of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies in controlling and decreasing pain.
  • (17) Although measurements are easily obtained with a tape measure, the validity of these measurements is not known.
  • (18) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
  • (19) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
  • (20) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.