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length

noun
/lɛŋ(k)θ/US

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”).

  1. inherited from *langiþō✻
  2. inherited from *langiþu✻
  3. inherited from lengþ
  4. inherited from lengthe

Definitions

  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. The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.

    • five lengths ahead of the field
  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Distance between the two ends of a line segment.

    2. The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.

    3. Total extent.

      • the length of a book

    4. Part of something that is long

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

      • a length of rope
      • a length of hair

    5. A penis.

      • , 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.

    6. A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.

      • […] 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, […]

    7. The number of cards held in a particular suit.

      • An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.

    8. The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or…

      The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.

    9. To lengthen.

      • Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
      • Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.
      • [He] knows full well life doth but length his pain.

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Derived

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, 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 · +48 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at length. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at length. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at length

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA