folding rule

Steel tapes and folding rules do not make good straightedges.

The gnome struggled, beating the stone-hard ant on the head with his flimsy folding rule.

The syntax highlighting is extendable via XML files and can also specify code folding rules.

Obediently I took the folding rule that Poirot handed me and took various measurements under his direction whilst he wrote on the back of an envelope.

In 1677, Henry Coggeshall created a two-foot folding rule for timber measure, called the Coggeshall slide rule.

Measuring instruments similar in function to rulers are made portable by folding (carpenter's folding rule) or retracting into a coil (metal tape measure) when not in use.

While Guy wrote a check and helped tag the items to be left behind, Rosemary measured the living room and the bedroom with a six-foot folding rule she had bought that morning.

Helmut then uses a folding rule to measure the flame and smoke shooting from the pipe, and loyally reports to his superior Bruno that it's "ten meters fifty of phon".

I had nothing to splint it with except for a metal folding rule from her pocket, but I tied that in place with strips of cloth cut from her pants leg.

In situations where it may be difficult to hold the workpiece in position, like fitting a long piece within an opening, the carpenter will use a folding rule that has a sliding extension on the end.

For the drawings, you will need graph paper with quarter-inch squares (for easy visibility), tracing paper, a sharp pencil with hard lead, a ruler and either a steel tape measure or a wooden folding rule.

Genome-wide surveys based on a quadruplex folding rule have been performed, which have identified 376,000 Putative Quadruplex Sequences (PQS) in the human genome, although not all of these probably form in vivo.

In the end, however, you will save yourself much heartache if you send all your German ivory folding rules, Woodrough & McParlin Panther saws and Stanley No. 1 planes, preferably in their original boxes, to me.

Louise got a folding rule and they discovered that because of the congestion caused by his canvases and those of his pupils, by far the more numerous, he generally worked in a space hardly any larger than the one that was about to be assigned to him.

Instead of the scissors and keys housewives once attached to this device, my collection of useful tools included a hunting knife and a pistol, notepaper and pencil, matches and candles, a folding rule, a small flask of water, a pocket compass, and a sewing kit.