Sentence examples for gauging the height of from inspiring English sources

Old-school water engineers were skilled at gauging the height of the dam you needed to build or the volume of water storage required.

I finished gauging the height of the stage from the pit and the position of the security guards, and I felt fairly confident that with few extra heaves and a lot of extra straining, I could still hoist myself up enough to swing a leg over to make it up.

(For one thing, it gave everyone a chance to gauge the height differences of the Obama daughters, four years later).

Perri has worked out how much wool we will need from a photo, using a brick at the base of the sculpture to gauge the height and width of the piece.

Use a yard stick or tape measure to gauge the height.

The standard deviation of 10 times of the measurement results of a gauge block with the height of 1 mm is 0.5 nm.

He judges the height of the shot, gauges its accuracy and considers the goalie's style — is he butterfly, stand-up or a hybrid?

It's got a kind of built-in snarl: " 'How's the weather?'Ughgh, it's RASNing.' ") The American Meteorological Society's "Glossary of Meteorology" skips straight from "winterization" to "wire-weight gauge" (a device used to measure the height of a river).

Designers mounted the tachometer at the center of the instrument pod, emphasizing revs rather than how fast the cops think you should go, and the entire gauge bank moves when you adjust the height of the wheel, so you can always see the dials.

Hence to gauge the width and height of periocular template boundary, there is no need to have knowledge of iris radius.

In the past, researchers have used tide gauges to keep tabs on the performance of satellite altimeters, which use radar to measure the height of the sea surface.