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Roget category 200

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

#200. Length

noun

length, longitude, spanmileagedistance etc. 196.
line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.
lengthening etc. v. — prolongation, production, protractiontension, tensureextension.
[Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, leaguechain, linkarpent, 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, perambulatorscale etc. (measurement) 466.

verb

be long etc. adj. — stretch out, sprawlextend to, reach to, stretch tomake a long arm, drag its slow length along.
" render long etc. adj. — lengthen, extend, elongatestretchprolong, produce, protractlet out, draw out, spin outdrawl.
enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
distend (expand) 194.

adjective

long, longsomelengthy, wiredrawn, outstretchedlengthened etc. v. — sesquipedalian etc. (words) 577interminable, no end ofmacrocolous.
linear, lineallongitudinal, oblong.
as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow unshortened etc. (shorten) etc. 201.

adverb

lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, alongtandemin a line etc. (continuously) 69in 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 toefore and aft.

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