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/lɛŋ(k)θ/
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- General-American
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/lɛn(t)θ/
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- Canada
- General-American
- Received-Pronunciation
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/leŋ(k)θ/
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/len(t)θ/
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/leɪŋ(k)θ/
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- US
- dialectal
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/leɪn(t)θ/
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- US
- dialectal
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/læŋ(k)θ/
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- US
- dialectal
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lɛŋ(k)θ
Noun
The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
- Synonyms
Duration.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
In equatorial Ecuador, days and nights are almost the same length, and the sun goes down early.
The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
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- Uncountable
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five lengths ahead of the field
Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
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- Uncountable
Total extent.
Usage- Countable
- Figurative
- Uncountable
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the length of a book
Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
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- Uncountable
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a length of rope
a length of hair
A penis.
Usage- Countable
- Slang
- Uncountable
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, 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.
A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
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- Uncountable
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[…] 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, […]
The number of cards held in a particular suit.
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- Uncountable
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An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.
The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
Verb
To lengthen.
Usage- Obsolete
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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.
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[He] knows full well life doth but length his pain.
Noun
the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place
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the length of the table was 5 feet
continuance in time
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the ceremony was of short duration
he complained about the length of time required
the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end
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the editor limited the length of my article to 500 words
size of the gap between two places
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the distance from New York to Chicago
he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points
a section of something that is long and narrow
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a length of timber
a length of tubing