length

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Pronunciation

• (RP, GA) enPR lĕng(k)th, IPA: /lɛŋ(k)θ/, /lɛn(t)θ/

Noun

length

1. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
2. Duration.

   • Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

3. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
4. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
5. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
6. (figuratively) Total extent.

   the length of a book

7. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.

   a length of rope

Translations

• French: longueur
• German: Länge, Längenmaß
• Italian: lunghezza
• Portuguese: comprimento, extensão
• Russian: длина́
• Spanish: largo, eslora (nautical: length of a ship from bow to stern), longitud

Translations

• German: Pferdelänge

Verb

length (lengths, present participle lengthing; past and past participle lengthed)

1. (obsolete) To lengthen.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIV. 30:

     Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.

   • , Ladies of Destinie

     Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.

   • , The Mirror for Magistrates

     [He] knows full well life doth but length his pain.

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