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DISTANCES |
Lengths |
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KILOMETRES |
Metric lengths |
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EXTREMES |
Great lengths |
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YARDS |
Three-foot lengths |
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GENES |
Lengths of DNA |
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SKEINS |
Lengths of yarn |
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LAPPED |
Swam pool lengths |
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EXTREME |
Going to great lengths |
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LAPS |
Lengths of a pool |
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PLANKS |
Stout lengths of sawn timber |
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PIPING |
Lengths of metal or plastic tubing |
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ELLEN |
Chat-show host goes to some cruel lengths |
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STOCKYARDS |
Supply lengths of material to make cattle pens |
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LONGIMETRY |
The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. |
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HETEROSTYLED |
Having styles of two or more distinct forms or
lengths. |
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THOROUGHGOING |
Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less
common in this sense. |
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THOROUGHPACED |
Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all
lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. |
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MILEAGE |
Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of
lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company,
etc. |
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PYROPHONE |
A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by
flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different
sizes and lengths. |
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TENTHMETRE |
A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such
that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a
millimeter. |
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TOWELING |
Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long
pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel
lengths with borders, etc. |
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ELL |
A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different
lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the
Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37. |
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SONOMETER |
...weight along a box, and divided into
different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is
determined by a scale on the face of the b... |
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BOND |
...ders,
and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face
of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each cou... |