Measure
Measure verb - To find out the size, extent, or amount of.
Separate
Separate verb - To set or force apart.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Shoot, Russian winter combat (and by that measure the Russian Winter itself) probably deserves it's own separate trope.
Source: Winter Warfare - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS has two separate instances of this (the second one had an "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight mixed in for good measure).
Source: Beat the Curse Out of Him - A classic chemistry experiment is corroding a penny using hydrochloric acid to separate the zinc from the copper and measure its composition.
Source: Education Through Pyrotechnics
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