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width

noun
/ˈwɪtθ/

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ From wide + -th (abstract nominal suffix), possibly by analogy with Old Norse vídd (“width”), though this is unlikely, as the word is not attested before the end of the 16th century and was historically unknown in Scots and the traditional dialect of Northern England, where one would expect Old Norse influence to be the strongest (these varieties traditionally employed wideness instead). Replaced Middle English wide, wyde (“width”).

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-✻ — “to divide, separate”
  2. inherited from *wīdaz✻
  3. inherited from wīd — “wide, vast, broad, long; distant, far”
  4. inherited from wid
  5. suffixed as width — “wide + th”

Definitions

  1. The state of being wide.

  2. The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.

  3. A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.

    2. The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.

      • Manchester United like to play with width.

The neighborhood

Derived

finger width, fixed-width, full-width, half-width, homogeneous width, instrumental width, narrow-width effect, off-width, semi-width, track width, width restriction, zero-width, zero-width space

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at width

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