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length
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- pronunciation:
- lengkth
- features:
- Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
Length is how long something is from one end to the other. The length of a boat is the distance from one end of the boat to the other end.
The bench is five feet in length.
- similar words:
- distance, measure, reach, span
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| definition 2: |
The length of something is the whole distance of it. If you walk the length of a street, you walk the whole distance of the street.
At first, I couldn't swim the length of the pool, but now I can swim many lengths.- synonyms:
- span
- similar words:
- compass, extent, measure, range, reach, stretch
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| definition 3: |
If you want to know the length of a movie, you want to know how much time a movie takes from beginning to end.
The length of most TV shows is either an hour or thirty minutes.- similar words:
- extent, span, term, time
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| definition 4: |
A length is an amount of effort. If you go to great lengths to help a friend, it means that you do a lot of different things to help that person and you use a lot of effort.
Their mom goes to great lengths to make sure everybody has a nice Christmas.The fire fighters went to amazing lengths to save all the dogs in the shelter.- synonyms:
- measure, trouble
- similar words:
- effort
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| related words: |
dimension |
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