Collocations for "length"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "length" in context.
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length
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [short, long] length of time
- has [a total, an overall] length of [three inches]
- ten [feet, meters, inches] in length
- measure the length in [inches, minutes]
- calculate the length of a [rectangle, square, triangle]
- the length is measured in [inches]
- the length and width of a [rectangle, football field]
- UK: traveled the length and breadth of [the country, India, Maine]
- (swam) [ten, 20] lengths of the pool
- [adjust, reduce, expand] the length (of)
- a length of [rope, string]
- cut off a length of [string]
- the length of the [sanction, ban, sentence, movie]
- the length is about [three inches]
- is [twice, three times] the length of
- [spoke, conversed] at length (about)
- hold the [firework, painting, object] at arm's length
- is at an arm's length
- is an arm's length away
- a [short] focal length
- is set at a fixed length
- [extended, pulled out, stretched out] to its full length
- went to great lengths to [please, satisfy, secure, make]
- a full-length [novel, movie]
- a feature-length [movie, film, episode]
- mid-length hair
'length' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
accurately
- apron
- arm
- blade
- chain
- character
- complain
- convey
- cord
- curly
- cut
- daunting
- debate
- discourse
- discuss
- double
- downtime
- edit
- entire
- equal
- estimated
- explain
- factor
- feature
- foot
- full
- hair
- height
- illusion
- knee
- lap
- less
- limp
- maximum
- measure
- medium
- mirror
- overall
- piping
- queue
- rag
- range
- review
- ribbon
- rope
- runway
- scar
- session
- shaft
- shank