measure up

• Verbo frasal usado para indicar que algo ou alguém atende a um determinado padrão, é adequado ou se compara favoravelmente a outra coisa ou pessoa.

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

incontável · intransitivo · phrasal, inseparável

1. Meet a standardinformal

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

   Atender ao padrão

   • 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.

   Sinônimoscome up tofulfilllive up tomatch-upmeetqualifysatisfy

   Antônimosfail

2. Assess or compareinformal

   To evaluate or compare someone or something against a standard.

   Avaliar ou comparar

   • 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.

   Sinônimosappraiseassessbenchmarkcompareevaluategaugejudgerate

Verbo basemeasure