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Length   /lɛŋkθ/  /lɛŋθ/   Listen
Length

noun
1.
The linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place.
2.
Continuance in time.  Synonym: duration.  "He complained about the length of time required"
3.
The property of being the extent of something from beginning to end.
4.
Size of the gap between two places.  Synonym: distance.  "He determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points"
5.
A section of something that is long and narrow.  "A length of tubing"



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— Manifesto of the Communist Party • Karl Marx
... his Sunday best," I suggested, as we passed another passenger. And so we went the length of the platform making rough guesses as to the professions of my fellow travellers. Suddenly I noticed a tall man, wearing a tweed cap and a long covert-coat, his hands in his pockets, a stumpy cigar stuck in the corner of his mouth. His hair was gray, and his face bore signs of a tough ...
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... Arm of Gold is about one hundred miles in length. After leaving Sydney, you ride beside the Spanish River a short distance, until you come to the portage, which separates it from the lake, and then you follow the delicious curve of the great beach until you arrive at St. Peter's. From St. Peter's ...
— Acadia - or, A Month with the Blue Noses • Frederic S. Cozzens
... for the ocean burial arrived, the members of the company and others assembled on deck. Standing alone with uncovered head beside the dead was the one whose life the noble animal had shared so long. At length, with choking utterance, Will spoke, and Charlie for the first time failed to hear the familiar voice he had always been so prompt ...
— Last of the Great Scouts - The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] • Helen Cody Wetmore
... sound of their voices, but not what they said. The conversation continued for two or three minutes, while Ruffo was taking in the oars and laying them one on each side of the boat. When he had done this he stretched up his arms to their full length above his head, and a loud noise of a prolonged yawn came up to Vere, and nearly made her laugh. Long as it was, it seemed to her to end ...
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