A tire gauge actually sounds like a handy little gift, like campaign potholders.
As I worked my way through the decades, the cars became more comfortable and more technologically advanced: a 1928 Model AR Ford roadster pickup had brake lights, a light switch on the steering column, a horn button and a primitive temperature gauge (actually, a thermometer placed on the radiator cap).
Some devices termed gauges may actually measure the size of the object to be gauged, but most gauges merely indicate whether the dimensions of the test object are sufficiently close to those of the standard i.e., whether they are in the range between set limits, known as the tolerance, for a particular object.
Until about 1900 all ivory carvers used much the same tools: an ax, adz, or chisel for removing the outer bark, or rind, from the tusk; a bucksaw or bow saw for cutting the trunk of the tusk into sections; a special tool called a float for paring the surface; and hand chisels, fretsaws, and gauges for actually carving the piece.
Chrome-lipped gauges are actually set apart from each other, like real gauges, so that instead of a full panel of dials that tend to merge together, you see the instruments more readily.
A.: A rain gauge shaped like a megaphone is not the standard shape, said Todd Miner, a meteorologist at Pennsylvania State University, but it should work if it has the correct ratios between the cross-sectional area at the top and the part of the gauge that actually collects and measures the water.
The problem is that it is difficult to gauge who is actually moving forward and who is engaged in wishful thinking.
To date, however, the idea of involving the public in anything related to the presidential fund has been disregarded.It is difficult even to gauge what money actually goes into the presidential fund, and when.
In a race that appears to be this close, the accuracy of the polls from now to Election Day is likely also to depend less on determining which candidate people favor than on gauging who will actually vote.
We've already had reams of reaction to the Browne report, but there is nothing quite like a statement in the Commons for allowing you to gauge how MPs actually react to a proposal.
