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Thesaurus > Space > Dimensions > Linear dimensions

200. Length

Nouns

• length, longitude, span; mileage; distance etc. S196.
• line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.
• lengthening etc. v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension, tensure [obs3]; extension.
• [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent [obs3], handbreadth [obs3], jornada [obs3][U.S.], kos [obs3], vara [obs3].
• [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) S466.

Verbs

• 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) S194.

Adjectives

• long, longsome [obs3]; lengthy, wiredrawn [obs3], outstretched; lengthened etc. v.; sesquipedalian etc. (words) S577; interminable, no end of; macrocolous [obs3].
• linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong.
• as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened etc. (shorten etc. S201)[obs3].

Adverbs

• lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong [obs3], along; tandem; in a line etc. (continuously) S69; 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 foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.