Definitions for lengths

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lengths length

Spelling: [lengkth, length, lenth]

IPA: /lɛŋkθ, lɛŋθ, lɛnθ/

Lengths is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in lengths (eghlnst).

Definitions for lengths

noun

1. the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end:
2. the measure of the greatest dimension of a plane or solid figure.
3. extent from beginning to end of a series, enumeration, account, book, etc.:
4. extent in time; duration:
5. a distance determined by the extent of something specified:
6. a piece or portion of a certain or a known extent:
7. the quality or state of being long rather than short:
8. the extent to which a person might or would go in pursuing something:
9. a large extent or expanse of something.
10. the measure from end to end of a horse, boat, etc., as a unit of distance in racing:
11. Clothing. the extent of a garment related to a point it reaches, as on the wearer's body, the floor, or on a garment used as a standard of measurement (usually used in combination):
12. Prosody, Phonetics. (of a vowel or syllable) quantity, whether long or short. the quality of vowels.
13. Bridge. the possession of four or more than four cards in a given suit.
14. Theater Archaic. 42 lines of an acting part.

Idioms

1. at length, in or to the full extent; completely. after a time; finally:
2. go to any length / lengths, to disregard any impediment that could prevent one from accomplishing one's purpose:
3. keep at arm's length. arm1 (def 16).

Origin of lengths

before 900; Middle English length(e), Old English lengthu; cognate with Dutch lengte, Old Norse lengd. See long¹, Examples for lengths

Only now, when we were able to talk frankly and at length, did I come to realize how profoundly it had affected him.

At length the servant returned, saying his master was now ready to see them.

“It seems that the different standard is (based on) the length of the beard and outwardly display of piety,” Hamdani said.

Looking around him, he at length, from the edge of the valley, descried Robert.

Hitchcock was fascinated when I pointed out the similarity, and considered it at some length.

People in the comments section were complaining about the length of one of these essays that ran in The New Yorker.

At length, carried away by impatience, I reprimanded him publicly.

But this neglect has at length recoiled upon the heads of its promoters.

The camera dollied backward along the length of the tower's staircase while simultaneously its lens zoomed forward.

He returned at length with the message, "The lady says will you please step up-stairs."