measure up

• Verbe à particule signifiant atteindre le niveau requis, être à la hauteur d'un standard ou se révéler satisfaisant lors d'une comparaison.

A phrasal verb used to indicate meeting a required standard, being adequate, or comparing favorably with something or someone.

indénombrable · intransitif · phrasal, inséparable

1. Meet a standardinformal

   To be good enough or to meet the required standard or expectation.

   être à la hauteur

   • The new employee didn't measure up to the company's expectations.
   • Her performance measured up to the high standards of the team.
   • He tried hard but couldn't measure up to his brother's achievements.

   Synonymescome up tofulfilllive up tomatch-upmeetqualifysatisfy

   Antonymesfail

2. Assess or compareinformal

   To evaluate or compare someone or something against a standard.

   évaluer ou comparer

   • We need to measure up our current resources against the project requirements.
   • The coach measured up each player's skills during practice.
   • They measured up the candidates before making a final decision.

   Synonymesappraiseassessbenchmarkcompareevaluategaugejudgerate

Verbe de basemeasure