Pronunciation Noun
length
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- Duration.
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- (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.
- the length of a book
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- a length of rope
- 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
- German: Pferdelänge
length (lengths, present participle lengthing; past and past participle lengthed)
- (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.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIV. 30:
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