a move made to gain a tactical end | how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify |
an action aimed at evading an opponent | the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
a military training exercise | any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal |
a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill | measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements |
a plan for attaining a particular goal | a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance |
| musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats |
| (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
| a statute in draft before it becomes law |
| a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated |