Measure your height in inches using the yardstick or measuring tape.
These losses make it impossible to compare Twitter's IPO with others using the traditional yardstick of a price-earnings ratio.Instead, analysts often look at another measure: the ratio of a firm's proposed market capitalisation at IPO to the past 12 months' sales.
"Understanding the evolution of cognition will require paying attention to the social ecology of each species, rather than using the human yardstick".
They are more likely to use this yardstick of measurement to describe how they feel: They say it is one of the few places they regularly travel two hours on the subway to get to, on a day off.
This is why astronomers sometimes use time as a yardstick, using the speed of light —186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) —to get a meaningful comparison for us regular humans.
Album downloads are up 2 percent, to 91.9 million; combining these results using the industry's standard yardstick of 10 tracks to an album, total digital sales are down almost 1 percent.
The geometry of the substrate was adjusted using the cross section of the adsorbable particle (a) as the yardstick.
"Principals Younger and Freer, but Raise Doubts in the Schools" ("Controlling Interests" series, front page, May 26) used the wrong yardstick to measure the success of the New York City Leadership Academy, a nonprofit entity whose board I head.
Having kept faith with a large proportion of the squad that won Telford promotion, Watson has been patient, preferring to use the standard managerial yardstick of not making any assessment until 10 matches have been played.
