Measure strength and speed of bird? (7)
I believe the answer is:
titrate
'bird?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I cannot understand how one could define the other.
'measure strength and speed' is the wordplay.
'measure strength' becomes 'tit' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'speed' becomes 'rate' (rate is a kind of speed).
'tit'+'rate'='TITRATE'
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for titrate that I've seen before include "Experimental way to measure" , "measure volume" , "Carry out scientific analysis" , "Measure the strength of (a solution) using a reagent" , "Use indicator maybe" .)