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Definition of Tape measure
1. Noun. 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"
Generic synonyms: Measuring Device, Measuring Instrument, Measuring System
Definition of Tape measure
1. Noun. A graduated ribbon of cloth, plastic or metal used for measuring lengths. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tape Measure
Literary usage of Tape measure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Plane Surveying by Daniel Carhart (1893)
"... every tenth link being marked by a piece of brass, as in the four-pole chain.
8. The tape measure is very convenient for taking offsets in a survey, ..."
2. Tests and studies of the ocular muscles by Ernest Edmund Maddox (1907)
"(2) If a tape measure coiled up in a metal box be available, a very good way is
to hold the zero of the scale ..."
3. Clinical Journal (1900)
"To obtain the size, the tape-measure should be applied in precisely the same
manner as it was for an inguinal protrusion. The application is as for an ..."
4. The Practical Surveyor's Guide: Containing the Necessary Information to Make by Andrew Duncan (1892)
"The tape-measure and its appurtenances. The steel tape is from 25 to 100 feet or
more in length J to f inch wide, and about TV inch thick. ..."
5. Post-mortem pathology by Henry Ware Cattell (1905)
"If a tape-measure of this length is not at hand, forty-two inches of inelastic
tape may be ... When not in use the tape-measure is wound around the sticks. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Natural Gas Association of America by Natural Gas Association of America, Meeting (1921)
"Ill COMBINATION BELT AND tape measure RUSSELL W. HAHNE, MFRS. LIGHT & HEAT
Co., PITTSBURGH, PA. Those gas men who depend upon belts to uphold their dignity ..."
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