>>>>>You call them tyre manometer? We just say pressure guage.
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>>>>I just typed manometer to see whether the spell checker would accept it. It is a manometer, and that's what we call it back home, but you're right, nobody calls it that here. Funny, though, nobody calls odometer "revolution gauge",
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>>>No, nut we say trip meter (for the trip odo) and mileometer for the main (or just "clock" as in "this is not genuine mileage.
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>>Um... meant tachometer.
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>Which we call the speedometer or speedo
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>>My confusion comes from home, where tachometer is the gadget that tracks truck's movements for the last few days on a paper tape or disk, by drawing a precise graph, and for the tachometer we just say "obrtomer" (revolution gauge).
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>We call that a tachograph (ie it writes your speed - rather than measure it - I guess the tachometer does the measuring for the tachograph)
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>>>Someone's put the clock back"
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>>Back on the shelf where it should be? ;)
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>Oh, I bet your household is in fits of laughter every autumn equinox!
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>>(though I shouldn't complain about this one - the Serbian "neko je vratio kilometražu" is equally ambiguous, "vratiti" means return as both "put back" and "replace")
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>>>>or yardstick "longitude gauge".
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>>>But no one says "yardstick" in its original sense (who uses one?) except in the sense: "His treatise is a yardstick for us to run our lives by"
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>>So what is it called then? "Hey, boy, bring me the ???, I need to measure the height of this".
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>Ruler, rule, measuring tape, dipstick (if measuring the height/depth of oil in the sump :-)
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>But who has a yeardstick? Oh, I forgot, we're talking the US where you still suffer from foot and inch disease. :-)

Ruler - only 12 inches long
measuring Tape - flimsy, can't stand with only one finger on it.
Dipstick - can only be used in sump.

Need yardstick for everything else. < gd&r >