measure out
phrasal verb
measured out; measuring out; measures out
: to measure and remove (something) from a larger amount
She carefully measured out three cups of flour.
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Bailey's game Broadly speaking, Bailey out of Rutgers projects as an offensive-minded forward, with significant scoring upside, despite measuring out worse than expected at the combine.
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Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
As online orders climbed toward 100 a day, Akasha turned a guest bedroom of his house into a shipping-and-receiving hub and started hiring his housemates to do the endless work of preparing packages, measuring out DMT, sealing it, bagging it, and putting it in the mail.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
The lack of cement in the block could have happened because of a malfunction in the batching machinery that measures out the quantities of sand, small stone and cement.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
Thank you Senators for passing this important measure out of the Education Committee.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
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Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
As online orders climbed toward 100 a day, Akasha turned a guest bedroom of his house into a shipping-and-receiving hub and started hiring his housemates to do the endless work of preparing packages, measuring out DMT, sealing it, bagging it, and putting it in the mail.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
The lack of cement in the block could have happened because of a malfunction in the batching machinery that measures out the quantities of sand, small stone and cement.
—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
Thank you Senators for passing this important measure out of the Education Committee.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Measure out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/measure%20out. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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