Your teacher wants you to use your imagination and think of other things you could compare your dog to instead of a ruler or yardstick. What about measuring your dog in cat-lengths or pencil-lengths? You can think of lots of ways to measure a dog if you just use your brain!
Using a non-standard scale. Science has generally agreed on a bunch of units grams, meters, joules etc to make up the "System International" or SI units. These should be used in a scientific context. They are based on Standards - for instance there used to be a stick in Paris which was defined as being a meter long all other meters had to be that length. They now use some trick with wavelengths of red light. Back on topic - There are other scales in general use mostly for historic reasons. The "customary units" in the US for distance (miles, yards, feet and inches) and weights (Pounds and Ounces) being pretty common examples. Using these scales could be considered nonstandard if you were writing a scientific paper. More likely nonstandard measure would be using a scale that is no ones standard. I could (and have) built a scaffold structure using units of "Rebecca" a nice girl who happens to be a good length to put scaffold floors apart. But I think you would have to consider her a nonstandard measure. The point being if you use nonstandard measure then people are not going to understand you since there is no common reference or "standard" to compare to.
They are all measurements of some characteristic.
No. You can only measure a person's length using some sort of marked off stick or measuring tape. After you know the person's length, you can describe it in meters if you want to tell others about it.
You measure the length, L, in some units (inches, centimetres, whatever), measure the width, W, in the same units and then calculate L/W.
Metres, but some of the lines may still be in terms of yards.
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if you measure a crayon with inches is not the same as measuring with feet.
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Using a non-standard scale. Science has generally agreed on a bunch of units grams, meters, joules etc to make up the "System International" or SI units. These should be used in a scientific context. They are based on Standards - for instance there used to be a stick in Paris which was defined as being a meter long all other meters had to be that length. They now use some trick with wavelengths of red light. Back on topic - There are other scales in general use mostly for historic reasons. The "customary units" in the US for distance (miles, yards, feet and inches) and weights (Pounds and Ounces) being pretty common examples. Using these scales could be considered nonstandard if you were writing a scientific paper. More likely nonstandard measure would be using a scale that is no ones standard. I could (and have) built a scaffold structure using units of "Rebecca" a nice girl who happens to be a good length to put scaffold floors apart. But I think you would have to consider her a nonstandard measure. The point being if you use nonstandard measure then people are not going to understand you since there is no common reference or "standard" to compare to.
The length, width, height, thickness, diagonal, perimeter, are some characteristics.
They are all measurements of some characteristic.
You measure it, unless there is some other information that you have.
Standard units are common units that can be re-measured easily. Examples: meters, miles, grams, seconds, etc. Non standard units are more so things than units that can't be measured as easily. Example: 13 pieces of gum in length. Surely you could lay out 13 pieces of gum, but gum varies in size which makes it more difficult to use as an accurate measurement.
yes, yes it is a measure of length. But it's not very useful as CM and MM are more accurate and replaced it but some people still use it
Some people in educated circles feel using nonstandard English is unacceptable because it shows a lack of education and class. Some people do not acknowledge slang and do not approve of it.
Either a ruler or a caliper.
No. You can only measure a person's length using some sort of marked off stick or measuring tape. After you know the person's length, you can describe it in meters if you want to tell others about it.