English Online Dictionary. What means length? What does length mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th. 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”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lĕng(k)th, lĕn(t)th, IPA(key): /lɛŋ(k)θ/, /lɛn(t)θ/, /leɪn(t)θ/
- Rhymes: -ɛŋkθ, -ɛŋθ, -ɛntθ, -ɛnθ
Noun
length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- Synonym: (obsolete) distance
- Duration.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
- (oenology) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
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Verb
length (third-person singular simple present lengths, present participle lengthing, simple past and past participle lengthed)
- (obsolete) To lengthen.
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