length
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
beverages
bridge
cricket
entertainment
food
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
mathematics
oenology
pets
racing
sciences
sports
theater
wine
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”).
Base: long
Affixes: -th
Inflected forms:
form: lengths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Duration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
gloss: The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: five lengths ahead of the field
gloss: Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Total extent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the length of a book
gloss: Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a length of rope
a length of hair
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: , 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.
gloss: A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] 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, […]
The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]
gloss: The number of cards held in a particular suit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.
gloss: The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: length
lengthiness
longitude
longness
Antonyms: width
Derived words: after length
after-length
arc length
arclength
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 and breadth
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
variable-length array
wavelength
whole-length
wirelength
wordlength
zero-length
zero-length launching
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