Polish English Dictionary

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Zmierzenie in English:

1. Measuring


The carpenter is measuring the floor.
I like to eyeball my ingredients, mostly because I don't feel like washing my measuring cups over and over.
Money is used for buying or selling goods, measuring value and storing wealth.
The current rate is about one airplane crash every two weeks, measuring all serious accidents to all types of transport jets.
No major damage or injuries are known to have resulted from the quake measuring 3.0 on the Richter scale.
I wonder how a government would go about measuring gross national happiness.

English word "Zmierzenie"(Measuring) occurs in sets:

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2. Measures


The Japanese fiscal authorities are weighing measures to restore public confidence in their economic management.
Stopgap measures won't make a dent in drug addiction.
The committee stayed up late last night trying to work out measures that would please everyone.
I feel so bad for the baritone saxes, who often have 200 measures of nothing but whole notes.
safety measures
Strong measures should be taken against wrong doers.
Early man used his fingers and toes to count the animals he owned, or the measures of grain he had stored.
The flow of evacuation events from occurrence of a large earthquake to the conclusion of emergency counter measures.
The austerity measures that many city governments have implemented are hugely unpopular.
At present, these measures, worth EUR 190 million, are to be provided until 2013.
And they've been taking just some really sensible measures – measures around having more progressive tax, around investing in a higher minimum wage
"These measures should enable us to simplify the obligations imposed on farmers. "
All of these are political measures; they are not police or security measures.
Sometimes to archive some things more dramatic measures are needed