>>>>>>>You call them tyre manometer? We just say pressure guage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>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",
>>>>>
>>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Um... meant tachometer.
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>>>Which we call the speedometer or speedo
>>>
>>>>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)
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Someone's put the clock back"
>>>>
>>>>Back on the shelf where it should be? ;)
>>>
>>>Oh, I bet your household is in fits of laughter every autumn equinox!
>>>
>>>>(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")
>>>>
>>>>>>or yardstick "longitude gauge".
>>>>>
>>>>>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"
>>>>
>>>>So what is it called then? "Hey, boy, bring me the ???, I need to measure the height of this".
>>>
>>>Ruler, rule, measuring tape, dipstick (if measuring the height/depth of oil in the sump :-)
>>>
>>>But who has a yeardstick? Oh, I forgot, we're talking the US where you still suffer from foot and inch disease. :-)
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>>Ruler - only 12 inches long
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>That's why I included "rule". To me that's a long ruler.
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>>measuring Tape - flimsy, can't stand with only one finger on it.
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>Well if you're talking of measuring something that's longer than a yard then a yardstick would be no good, by that reasoning. I don't know about the US but, by deft use of the hand and wrist, I can maintain rigidity in mine even if its extends over 4" long (phnar! phnar! :-)
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>>Dipstick - can only be used in sump.
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>Well you're useful on the UT occasionally! < gd&r >
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>But it is a means of measuring depth/height.
>
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>>Need yardstick for everything else. < gd&r >
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>Yeah, for chucking at you as you g, d & r :-)

rofl, I just could not resist this subject. :-)