length
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Is length a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of length?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.countableuncountable
2. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.countableuncountable
3. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.countableuncountable
4. (figuratively) Total extent.Examples: "the length of a book"countablefigurativelyuncountable
5. (slang) A penis.Examples: "Vicki Savage, 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."countableslanguncountable
6. (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.Examples: "[…] 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, […]"; "The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]"countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To lengthen.Examples: "Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow."; "Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde."; "[He] knows full well life doth but length his pain."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary