a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify |
holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes | the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal |
a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels | measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements |
a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds | a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance |
the last or lowest in an ordering or series | musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats |
the temporal end; the concluding time | (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | a statute in draft before it becomes law |
| a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated |