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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
width
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
finished
▪ When all the pleats have been tacked in place, check that the finished width equals the length of the valance rail.
▪ Divide the finished curtain width by the width of one scallop and space, to give the number of scallops.
full
▪ Type your document directly into the window, where you can see its full width all the time.
▪ Her owner's full width cabin, plus four equal guest cabins give her a unique and pleasing layout.
▪ If fitting your blind inside a window recess you will need to measure the full recess width and depth.
▪ A large double berth dominates the centre of the full width after cabin.
▪ I personally would have prefered two millimetres, the full width of tread and full circumference.
▪ She led them on to a small covered terrace running the full width of the house.
▪ Banner a large headline or title extending across the full page width.
▪ This meant that the flutes were full width at the base of the sphere, but taper down on the top.
great
▪ Portrait an upright image or page where the height is greater than the width.
▪ In the drawing this is indicated by the much greater width of the new pattern.
maximum
▪ There are, also, dock levellers and container dollies with a maximum width of 96ins.
▪ Once you know the maximum width and length required, you can decide which way the sheet will be laid.
▪ Any area distal to the point of maximum width contributes only drag, which is proportional to total tail area.
narrow
▪ L.D.P.'s stair runners are woven with borders in a variety of narrow widths.
▪ Only a relatively narrow width was surfaced with stone, and the remainder was left under grass as we see it today.
▪ The last of the six narrow width traditional carding machines are to go, along with their spinning frames.
▪ It will also narrow the width of the road, reducing vehicle speeds.
▪ You may prefer to fix the matchboard across the narrowest width of the room.
whole
▪ It measures some 205 by 30 feet and extends almost the whole width of the building.
▪ Almost the whole width of the island.
▪ In their progress they took up the whole width of the footpath.
▪ The first four 38-square-high printouts for the whole width of the pattern are shown.
▪ The flash that followed seemed to come not just from the magazine itself but from the whole width of the horizon.
▪ The building has a large narthex extending the whole width of the church with three saucer domes over it.
▪ Matching patterns With patterned fabric, the design must line up across the whole width of the curtain.
■ NOUN
band
▪ Ordinary analogue telephone lines used for voice communication have a low band width and can not transmit much data per second.
▪ Broadcast data via satellites also have a wide band width enabling good data transmission.
pulse
▪ This, then, is our pulse width modulator.
▪ Rather than using analogue voltages the servos operate with digital pulses of varying width to form a pulse width locked loop.
▪ Comparison of input signal and monostable pulse width.
▪ This continues until the pulse widths are within about one percent of each other.
■ VERB
extend
▪ It measures some 205 by 30 feet and extends almost the whole width of the building.
▪ It originally extended over the full width of the Railway between the boundary walls.
▪ The building has a large narthex extending the whole width of the church with three saucer domes over it.
give
▪ This will give you enough width to work on more than one cable pattern at a time.
▪ This is then divided by whichever of the indexing numbers you have to give the width of the flutes.
▪ This gives adequate width to provide both the killing power and the necessary height.
measure
▪ If fitting your blind inside a window recess you will need to measure the full recess width and depth.
▪ Matt art a coated printing paper with a dull surface. Measure denotes the width of a setting expressed in pica ems.
▪ In Washington Square a camera crew were measuring the width of the arch and being important.
run
▪ There are great slabs of aluminium and a leather shelf which runs the entire width of the car.
▪ Even the view from the big window that runs the width of her office is unadorned.
▪ She led them on to a small covered terrace running the full width of the house.
▪ It ran the width of the ship and was full of machinery.
▪ The room she entered ran the width of the house, with windows at both ends.
vary
▪ The borders vary in width, and are designed specially to create the main impact in the room.
▪ Bright cords of varying width connected the Golden State Warriors at their middle.
▪ The second is a yellowish-white fish, usually with dark brown horizontal bands of varying width.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Can you just measure the width of the door?
▪ Carpets are available in several different widths.
▪ I was surprised by the width of his shoulders.
▪ Paolo saw him across the width of the church.
▪ The huge vehicle took up the whole width of the road.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An earlier name, Beastmarket, indicates the reason for its width.
▪ It measures 3 5/8 inches in height and width.
▪ Once you know the maximum width and length required, you can decide which way the sheet will be laid.
▪ Stem strength is affected by its radius, wall width, and material strength.
▪ The Panhandle is where Golden Gate Park narrows to the width of a single block.
▪ The pasta ranges from threads to hearty widths.
▪ You can enter the width and number of lines that are displayed on your monitor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
width

Set \Set\, n.

  1. The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination. ``Locking at the set of day.''
    --Tennyson.

    The weary sun hath made a golden set.
    --Shak.

  2. That which is set, placed, or fixed. Specifically:

    1. A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.

    2. That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture. [Obs. or R.]

      We will in France, by God's grace, play a set Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
      --Shak.

      That was but civil war, an equal set.
      --Dryden.

    3. (Mech.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.

    4. A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.

    5. (Pile Driving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece. [Often incorrectly written sett.]

    6. (Carp.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface. Called also nail set.

  3. [Perhaps due to confusion with sect, sept.] A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc. [In this sense, sometimes incorrectly written sett.]

  4. A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique. ``Others of our set.''
    --Tennyson.

    This falls into different divisions, or sets, of nations connected under particular religions.
    --R. P. Ward.

  5. Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.

  6. In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.

  7. The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.

    1. A young oyster when first attached.

    2. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.

  9. (Tennis) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.

  10. (Type Founding) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.

  11. (Textiles) Any of various standards of measurement of the fineness of cloth; specif., the number of reeds in one inch and the number of threads in each reed. The exact meaning varies according to the location where it is used. Sometimes written sett.

  12. A stone, commonly of granite, shaped like a short brick and usually somewhat larger than one, used for street paving. Commonly written sett.

  13. Camber of a curved roofing tile.

  14. The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit; as, the set of a coat. [Colloq.]

  15. Any collection or group of objects considered together. Dead set.

    1. The act of a setter dog when it discovers the game, and remains intently fixed in pointing it out.

    2. A fixed or stationary condition arising from obstacle or hindrance; a deadlock; as, to be at a dead set.

    3. A concerted scheme to defraud by gaming; a determined onset.

      To make a dead set, to make a determined onset, literally or figuratively.

      Syn: Collection; series; group. See Pair.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
width

1620s, formed from wide on model of breadth, and replacing wideness (Old English widnes). Johnson (1755) calls it "a low word." Related: Widthwise.

Wiktionary
width

n. 1 The state of being wide. 2 The measurement of the extent of something from side to side. 3 A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric. 4 (context cricket English) The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him. 5 (context sports English) The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.

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WordNet
width

n. the extent of something from side to side [syn: breadth]

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Wikipedia
Width (disambiguation)

Width has several meanings in mathematics. It may refer to:

  • In geometry, the minimum distance between two parallel lines, planes, or hyperplanes that enclose a given shape
    • Curve of constant width
    • Surface of constant width
    • Mean width is one of the "intrinsic volumes" contemplated by Hadwiger's theorem in integral geometry
  • In graph theory, any of several numerical parameters that measure the sparsity or complexity of a graph
    • Branchwidth
    • Clique-width
    • Degeneracy (graph theory), also known as the width of a graph
    • Graph bandwidth
    • Pathwidth
    • Treewidth
  • In order theory, the size of the largest antichain in a partial order
    • Dilworth's theorem, a characterization of width in terms of partitions into chains

Usage examples of "width".

Between the two lies the main ship channel, varying in width from seven hundred and fifty yards, three miles outside, to two thousand, or about a sea mile, abreast Fort Morgan.

Keebes pushed through the door leading aft into a room the full forty-two-foot width of the submarine.

They are of only one bay in width, and do not extend beyond the aisle walls.

It was scarcely two feet in width but Alec discovered upon closer inspection that it was comprised of a succession of fantastic beasts and birds rendered in superb detail.

For one thing, the rate at which a nerve impulse travels along an axon varies roughly with the width of the axon.

The three of them would form the Marspan Iowa Consort, to which end Boa had already sewn together a sort of banner of welcome and hung it across the whole width of the music room.

The Bogue varied in width from three miles at its broadest to less than a mile at some places, and steep hills on either side fell to the water in a natural defile.

Capped with brown crust, falling bluff inland, and sloping towards the main, where the usual stone-heaps act as sea-marks, this bank of yellowish-white coralline, measuring 310 metres by half that width, may be the remains of the bed in which the torrents carved out the port.

Each page of the book is a cubit in height and two thirds that in width.

Two silvers for a scarf barely a cubit and a half long and half that in width?

Covertly opening that eye which remained in the heavy shadow, separating the lashes by little more than the width of a hair, he could make out a large room, upholstered and carpeted in green, with green-shaded electroliers above two billiard tables that stood ghastly and bier-like beneath their blanketing covers of white cotton.

The clavicle and the two margins of the sternum had no connections whatever, and below the groove was a hard substance corresponding to the ensiform cartilage, which, however, was very elastic, and allowed the patient, under the influence of the pectoral muscles, when the upper extremity was fixed, to open the groove to nearly the extent of three inches, which was more than twice its natural width.

Its walls rose some twenty feet above the floor, which was about five feet in width.

But on the other hand they were as broad as they were high, built entirely of dressed stone, hewn, no doubt, from the vast caves, and surrounded by a great moat about sixty feet in width, some reaches of which were still filled with water.

In his right hand he held a spear about five and a half feet long, the blade being two and a half feet in length, by nearly three inches in width, and having an iron spike at the end of the handle that measured more than a foot.