A pattern or gauge, such as a thin metal plate with a cut pattern, used as a guide in making something accurately, as in woodworking or the carving of architectural profiles, An overlay that fits over all or part of a keyboard and has labels describing the functions of each key within a particular application, A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects, verb_ To set up or mark off using a template, To provide a template or pattern for

The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence, (physics) the transfer of energy between elementary particles or between an elementary particle and a field or between fields; mediated by gauge bosons, Communication between people, or the actions of people that affect others

One that indicates, especially, A pointer or an index, An instrument used to monitor the operation or condition of an engine, furnace, electrical network, reservoir, or other physical system; a meter or gauge, Any of various statistical values that together provide an indication of the condition or direction of the economy

A lineal measure, the twelfth part of a foot, Proverbially, a small quantity or degree; the least part or amount, usually, the pressure indicated by so many inches of a mercury column, as on a steam gauge, verb_ advance slowly, as if by inches, intransitive & transitive verb_ To move or cause to move slowly or by small degrees, transitive verb_ rare To drive by inches, or small degrees, rare To deal out by inches; to give sparingly

That which is gathered or amassed; a collection or accumulation, A suppurated swelling; a boil or abscess, A crowd; an assembly; specifically, a concourse of spectators or participants for some purpose of common interest, adjective_ a lighted coal left smothered in embers over night, about which kindling wood is gathered in the morning, verb_ present continuous of gather; collecting or bringing together