measure someone/something up

Examples of measuring

measuring

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Theoretical considerations on the momentum and energy transfer to small particles of different material during passage of the measuring volume were discussed.
One limitation of this study is related to the difficulties in measuring variables reflecting sanitary and environmental conditions.
Chapters 2-3 survey definitions of productivity and methods of measuring productivity of morphological processes.
Given the obvious difficulties in measuring corruption, any one source may be highly inaccurate.
The procedure was to traverse in the y-direction, measuring total head and static pressure, at various cross-stream positions.
The implications for measuring speech pause time in determining the efficacy of music therapy with depressed patients.
The first measuring station is only 15 normalized mesh lengths downstream which is locally only about 12 large mesh lengths.
It must be noted that for measuring of higher temperature plasmas, higher atomic number materials are more suitable to diagnose the heating process.
The interatrial communication was noted to be small and the ascending aorta was dilated, measuring 35 mm in diameter.
As compared with measuring cell mass, quantifying adhesive strength is an even less developed area.
Beyond health outcomes : the advantages of measuring process.
Measuring meaningfully the real exchange rate and the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate is always a difficult task.
To enable measuring the effect of reduced borer densities on maize yield, the maize monocrop and all intercrops were grown with and without insecticide treatment.
To account for the impact of partisanship/ideology on protest potential in multivariate estimations, we included variables measuring people's left-right ideology and ideological extremism.
The variables measuring specific aspects of the campaign had the expected relationships with votes.
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