length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĕng(k)th
enpr: lĕn(t)th
ipa: /lɛŋ(k)θ/
ipa: /lɛn(t)θ/
ipa: /leɪŋ(k)θ/
ipa: /leɪn(t)θ/
ipa: /læŋ(k)θ/
rhymes: -ɛŋkθ
rhymes: -ɛŋθ
rhymes: -ɛntθ
rhymes: -ɛnθ
Forms: form: lengths
Etymology: From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).
Senses: synonyms: distance
glosses: The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
examples: text: Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ref: 1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright:
glosses: Duration.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
examples: text: the length of a book
glosses: Total extent.
examples: text: a length of rope
text: a length of hair
glosses: Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
examples: Vicki Savage, Bride for the Billionaire Bear Shifter
His cock felt firm under her palm, and her mouth watered as she imagined wrapping her lips around his length.
glosses: A penis.
examples: text: […] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […]
ref: 1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club, page 38:
text: The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]
ref: 1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre, page 45:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
examples: text: An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.
ref: 1999, Edwin B. Kantar, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, page 191:
topics: bridge
games
glosses: The number of cards held in a particular suit.
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
Synonyms: word: length
word: lengthiness
word: longitude
word: longness
Hypernyms: word: physical property
word: size
Hyponyms: word: span
Derived terms: after-length
after length
arclength
arc length
armlength
arm's length
arm's length price
arm's length principle
at arm's length
at length
bishop's length
bitlength
Bjerrum length
block length
boatlength
boatslength
bond length
book-length
brength
cable length
calf-length
calibrated focal length
chunklength
cocktail length
codelength
commutator length
daylength
Debye length
debye length
dragonlength
feature-length
floor-length
focal length
full-length
good length
go to any lengths
go to great lengths
half-length
Hubble length
in length
keep at arm's length
knee-length
length contraction
lengthen
lengthful
lengthless
length of days
length operator
length overall
length scale
lengthsome
lengthways
lengthwise
lengthy
line and length
measure one's length
mixing length
multilength
nanolength
null patch length
null path length
overlength
path length
Planck length
read length
ribbonlength
roughness length
run-length encoding
scale length
scalelength
screening length
semilength
short of a length
shoulder-length
sidelength
slip someone a length
steplength
swordlength
swordslength
tea-length
the length of the Flemington straight
treelength
wavelength
whole-length
wirelength
wordlength
zero-length
zero-length launching