length

Roget-categorie 200

2. Words relating to space
› 2.2. Dimensions
›› 2.2.2. Linear dimensions

#200. Length

zelfstandig naamwoord

length, longitude, span — mileage — distance etc. 196.
line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.
lengthening etc. v. — prolongation, production, protraction — tension, tensure^† — extension.
[Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league — chain, link — arpent^†, handbreadth^†, jornada [U.S.], kos^†, vara^†.
[astronomical units of distance] astronomical unit, AU, light-year, parsec.
[metric units of length] nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km.
pedometer, perambulator — scale etc. (measurement) 466.

werkwoord

be long etc. adj. — stretch out, sprawl — extend to, reach to, stretch to — make a long arm, drag its slow length along.
" render long etc. adj. — lengthen, extend, elongate — stretch — prolong, produce, protract — let out, draw out, spin out^† — drawl.
enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
distend (expand) 194.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

long, longsome^† — lengthy, wiredrawn^†, outstretched — lengthened etc. v. — sesquipedalian etc. (words) 577 — interminable, no end of — macrocolous^†.
linear, lineal — longitudinal, oblong.
as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow — unshortened etc. (shorten) etc. 201^†.

bijwoord

lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong^†, along — tandem — in a line etc. (continuously) 69 — in perspective.
from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe — fore and aft.

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