tape measure - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Self-retracting metal tape measure (US customary)
A sliced tape measure
tape measure (plural tape measures)
- A graduated flexible ribbon used for measuring lengths.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 126:
Reappearing, tape-measure in hand, he went into the bedroom and took slow and accurate measurements, whistling delightedly to find that his pre-mortem theoretical calculations and post-mortem practical measurements hardly varied.
graduated ribbon for length measurement
- Arabic: شَرْيِط قِيَاس m (šaryiṭ qiyās)
- Egyptian Arabic: مازورة f (mazura)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: шивашки метър m (šivaški metǎr), рулетка (bg) f (ruletka)
- Chinese:
- Czech: metr (cs) m, pásmo (cs) n, svinovací metr m
- Danish: målebånd n
- Dutch: meetlint (nl), centimeter (nl), rolmaat (nl) f (self-retracting)
- Esperanto: mezurbendo
- Estonian: mõõdulint (et)
- Finnish: mittanauha (fi)
- French: mètre ruban (fr) m, ruban à mesurer m
- Georgian: საზომი ლენტი (sazomi lenṭi), ხვეულა (ka) (xveula), რულეტი (ruleṭi)
- German: Maßband (de) n
- Greek: μεζούρα (el) f (mezoúra), μετροταινία (el) f (metrotainía)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: סרט מידה (he)
- Hindi: मापक फीता (māpak phītā)
- Hungarian: mérőszalag (hu), centiméter (hu) (colloquial), centi (hu) (colloquial)
- Icelandic: málband n
- Indonesian: pita ukur
- Irish: miosúr m
- Italian: metro a nastro m
- Japanese: メジャー (ja) (mejā), 巻き尺 (まきじゃく, makijaku)
- Kannada: ಅಳತೆ ಪಟ್ಟಿ (kn) (aḷate paṭṭi)
- Khmer: ម៉ែត្រមូរ (maet muu), ម៉ែត្រសំពត់ (maet sɑmpʊət)
- Korean: 줄자 (julja)
- Macedonian: метро n (metro)
- Malay: pita ukur
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: taura ine, rūri tākai
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: метр (mn) (metr) (pronounced 'metr'; general term), эвхдэг метр (evxdeg metr) (retractable), ороомол тохой (oroomol toxoj) (retractable; Inner Mongolia)
- Navajo: bee ídaʼneelʼąąhí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: målebånd n
- Ottoman Turkish: مساحه شریدی (mesaha şeridi)
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Plautdietsch: Motbaunt m
- Polish: taśma miernicza (pl) f, metrówka (pl) f, miarka (pl) f
- Portuguese: fita métrica f, trena (pt) f
- Romanian: ruletă (ro)
- Russian: метр (ru) m (metr), сантиме́тр (ru) m (santimétr), ме́рная ле́нта f (mérnaja lénta), руле́тка (ru) f (rulétka)
- Scottish Gaelic: ribean-tomhais m
- Serbo-Croatian: метални метар m (metalni metar)
- Spanish: metro (es) m, cinta métrica (es) f, flexómetro m (self-retracting metallic), güincha (es) f (Bolivia), lienza f (Cuba), wincha (es) f (Andes)
- Swedish: måttband (sv) n
- Tagalog: medida, panukat
- Tamil: அளக்கும் நாடா (aḷakkum nāṭā)
- Telugu: టేప్ కొలత (ṭēp kolata)
- Thai: สายวัด (soft strip), ตลับเมตร (cased metal strip)
- Tibetan: ཁྲེ་རྩེ་སྒྲིལ་མ (khre rtse sgril ma), སྒྲིལ་ཁྲེ (sgril khre), དྲིལ་ཁྲུ (dril khru)
- Turkish: şerit metre (tr)
- Vietnamese: thước dây (vi)
- Welsh: tâp mesur m
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