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单词 width
释义

width

/wɪtθ / /wɪdθ /
noun
1 [mass noun] The measurement or extent of something from side to side; the lesser of two or the least of three dimensions of a body: the yard was about seven feet in width...
  • Typical blocks were fabricated to measurements of three feet in length and 1.5 feet in width and height.
  • Cubic measurements take all three dimensions into consideration - width, length and height.
  • The Backbone was a half-mile of barren limestone only fifty feet in width with nearly vertical sides and a few boulders and a few clumps of pines dotting its top.

Synonyms

wideness, breadth, broadness, thickness, spread, span, diameter, girth
technical calibre, gauge
Nautical beam
1.1 [count noun] A piece of something at its full extent from side to side: a single width of hardboard...
  • If two countries use a different width of railway track, then goods and people travelling between them have to stop and change trains.
  • The wall was twelve barrel widths in length, so when my grenade went off, two columns of the drums went flying in all directions.
1.2 [count noun] The sideways extent of a swimming pool as a measure of the distance swum.None of them could see the lady and her foam baton, who, it transpired wasn't even swimming her widths....
  • Each child swam as many widths as they could during ten minutes set aside from a swimming lesson.
  • The interval cited is how long she has to swim the width, then rest before doing another.
2Wide range or extent: the width of experience required for these positions...
  • So, too, to some extent, given the width of their catchment areas, were the great Welsh clubs.
  • Undoubtedly, critics will once again struggle to find adequate adjectives and metaphors to describe the width and breadth of their unique sound.
  • The width of this range represents a measure of the degree of consensus about the forecast.

Synonyms

range, breadth, compass, scope, span, scale, sweep, extent, extensiveness, vastness, immensity, immenseness, expansiveness, comprehensiveness, compendiousness
rare catholicity

Origin

Early 17th century: from wide + -th2, on the pattern of breadth (replacing wideness).

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