tape measure

A tape of cloth, paper, or steel marked off in a linear scale, as of inches or centimeters, for taking measurements. Also called tapeline.

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tape measure

(Knitting & Sewing) a tape or length of metal marked off in inches, centimetres, etc, used principally for measuring and fitting garments. Also called (esp US): tapeline

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

tape′ meas`ure

a long, flexible strip or ribbon, as of cloth or metal, marked with subdivisions of the foot or meter and used for measuring. Also called tape•line (ˈteɪpˌlaɪn)

[1835–45]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

tape measure - measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths; "the carpenter should have used his tape measure"

tapeline, tape

measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system - instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something

Translations

شَرِيطُ القِيَاس

měřící pásmo

målebånd

mittanauha

metar

málband

metro a nastro misura strato disegno di legge

巻尺

줄자

мерная лента рулетка сантиметр

merilni trak

måttband

สายวัด

şerit metre

thước dây

卷尺

tape measure

n → metro a nastro

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

tape measure

→ شَرِيطُ القِيَاس měřící pásmo målebånd Maßband μετροταινία cinta métrica, metro mittanauha mètre à ruban metar metro a nastro 巻尺 줄자 meetlint målebånd taśma miernicza fita métrica мерная лента måttband สายวัด şerit metre thước dây 卷尺

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

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As he spoke, he whipped a tape measure and a large round magnifying glass from his pocket.

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"I think that there is nothing else of importance here, but I will look." He whipped out his lens and a tape measure, and hurried about the room on his knees, measuring, comparing, examining, with his long thin nose only a few inches from the planks, and his beady eyes gleaming and deep-set like those of a bird.

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Dona Rita described amusingly how she had to stand in the middle of her room while Rose walked around her with a tape measure noting the figures down on a small piece of paper which was then sent to the maker, who presently returned it with an angry letter stating that those proportions were altogether impossible in any woman.

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Driving a peg, with great nicety, into the ground, at the precise spot where the beetle fell, my friend now produced from his pocket a tape measure. Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk, of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg, and thence farther unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet - Jupiter clearing away the brambles with the scythe.

Taking, now, the tape measure from the nearest point of the trunk to the peg, as before, and continuing the extension in a straight line to the distance of fifty feet, a spot was indicated, removed, by several yards, from the point at which we had been digging.

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The world of tape measures and calico counters seemed so far away; the interior of his quondam lodgings in a by-street of Islington, so unfamiliar and impossible.

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