length

Significado (Inglês)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
2. (countable, uncountable) Duration.
3. (countable, uncountable) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
4. (countable, uncountable) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
5. (countable, uncountable) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Total extent.
7. (countable, uncountable) Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
8. (countable, slang, uncountable) A penis.
9. (countable, uncountable) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
10. (countable, uncountable) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
11. (countable, uncountable) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.

Verb

To lengthen.

Conceitos

comprimento

extensão

longitude

duração

faixa

distância

tira

oscilação

corpo

Sinônimos

height

duration

distance

extension

extent

tallness

depth

long

size

range

span

stature

interval

elongation

lengthiness

longness

measure

sheet

space

strip

section

overall length

longitudinal

milage

mileage

palm

period

piece

prolongation

reach

remoteness

row

segment

separation

short

side

standing

strand

stretch

tall

time

⌚

unequal

weigh

width

yardage

L

longtitude

front-to-back

great length

standoffishness

Traduções

longueur

Länge

lunghezza

longitud

lengte

largura

durée

μήκος

langdurigheid

boy

taille

durata

duración

διάρκεια

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/lɛŋ(k)θ/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: lengthe

Herdado de inglês arcaico: lengþ

Cognato com scots: lenth

Cognato com Saterfriesisch: Loangte

Cognato com frísio ocidental: lingte

Cognato com holandês: lengte

Cognato com dinamarquês: længde

Cognato com sueco: längd

Cognato com islandês: lengd

In summary

From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).

Frases

He had a great memory for poetry and often quoted it at length .

Ele tinha uma ótima memória para a poesia e costumava citá -la longamente.

Each discipline's program runs two years in length .

O programa de cada disciplina dura dois anos.