measure

Which Means:

To find out the size of something.

Double measure how long the board should be before you cut the wood.

The ending -ure sounds like -er but the S sounds like the 'S' in Asia.

An instrument or machine for weighing things.

At the grocery store, you can use the scale to see how much your vegetables weigh.

The letter 'A' always sounds like A before a consonant and a silent E, like 'ate', 'came', and this word.