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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lĕng(k)th, lĕn(t)th, IPA: /lɛŋ(k)θ/, /lɛn(t)θ/, /leɪŋ(k)θ/, /leɪn(t)θ/, /læŋ(k)θ/
• 韻: -ɛŋkθ, -ɛŋθ, -ɛntθ, -ɛnθ

名詞

length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)

1. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.

   Synonym: (obsolete) distance

2. Duration.
   • 1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright:

     Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

3. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.

   five lengths ahead of the field

4. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
5. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
6. (figuratively) Total extent.

   the length of a book

7. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.

   a length of rope

   a length of hair

8. (slang) A penis.
   • (Can we date this quote by Vicki Savage and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), 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. (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
   • 1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club, page 38:

     […] 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, […]

   • 1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre, page 45:

     The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]

10. (bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.
    • 1999, Edwin B. Kantar, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, page 191:

      An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.

11. (wine) The amount of time for which the taste of wine lingers on the palate after swallowing or spitting it out, measured in caudilies.

派生語

動詞

length (third-person singular simple present lengths, present participle lengthing, simple past and past participle lengthed)

1. (obsolete) To lengthen.
   • 1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC:
     XIV. 30:

     Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.

   • 1552, Richard Huloet, “Ladies of Destinie”, in Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum:

     Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.

   • a. 1608, Thomas Sackville, Allegorical Personages described in Hell:

     [He] knows full well life doth but length his pain.