length

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /lɛŋ(k)θ/|/lɛn(t)θ/|/leɪŋ(k)θ/|/leɪn(t)θ/|/læŋ(k)θ/    美 /lɛŋ(k)θ/|/lɛn(t)θ/|/leɪŋ(k)θ/|/leɪn(t)θ/|/læŋ(k)θ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object. countable,uncountable
  2. Duration. countable,uncountable
    — Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
  3. The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race. countable,uncountable
    — five lengths ahead of the field
  4. Distance between the two ends of a line segment. countable,uncountable
  5. The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman. countable,uncountable
  6. Total extent. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — the length of a book
  7. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something. countable,uncountable
    — a length of rope
  8. A penis. countable,slang,uncountable
    — , Bride for the Billionaire Bear Shifter His cock felt firm under her palm, and her mouth watered as she imagined wrapping her lips around his length.
  9. A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines. countable,uncountable
    — […] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […]
  10. The number of cards held in a particular suit. countable,uncountable
    — An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.
  11. The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To lengthen. obsolete
    — Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.

词形变化

lengths plural lengths present,singular,third-person lengthing participle,present lengthed participle,past lengthed past

词汇关系

近义词
length lengthiness longitude longness
反义词
width
上位词
physical property size
下位词
span
衍生词
after length after-length arc length arclength armlength arm's length arm's length price arm's length principle at arm's length at length bishop's length bitlength Bjerrum length block length boatlength boatslength bond length book-length brength cable length calf-length calibrated focal length chunklength cocktail length codelength commutator length daylength Debye length dragonlength feature-length floor-length focal length full-length good length go to any lengths go to great lengths half-length Hubble length in length keep at arm's length knee-length length and breadth length contraction lengthen lengthful lengthless length of days length operator length overall length scale lengthsome lengthways lengthwise lengthy line and length measure one's length mixing length multilength nanolength null patch length null path length overlength path length Planck length read length ribbonlength roughness length run-length encoding scale length scalelength screening length semilength short of a length shoulder-length sidelength slip someone a length steplength swordlength swordslength tea-length the length of the Flemington straight treelength variable-length array wavelength whole-length wirelength wordlength zero-length zero-length launching

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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