(a.) The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the length of a rope or line.
(a.) A portion of space or of time considered as measured by its length; -- often in the plural.
(a.) The quality or state of being long, in space or time; extent; duration; as, some sea birds are remarkable for the length of their wings; he was tired by the length of the sermon, and the length of his walk.
(a.) A single piece or subdivision of a series, or of a number of long pieces which may be connected together; as, a length of pipe; a length of fence.
(a.) Detail or amplification; unfolding; continuance as, to pursue a subject to a great length.
(a.) Distance.
(v. t.) To lengthen.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(2) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(3) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(4) Using the oocyte system to express size-fractionated mRNA, we have also determined that the mRNA coding for this protein is between 1.9-2.4 kilobases in length.
(5) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(6) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(7) Overall length of stay found in this study (14.02 days) is considerably higher than Indian optimum.
(8) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
(9) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
(10) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(11) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
(12) Northern hybridization analysis of R. toruloides RNA with a restriction fragment encoding part of the PAL gene indicates that PAL mRNA is 2.5 kilobases in length.
(13) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
(14) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
(15) lengths with the subjects equally divided into these four groups: distributed trials, distributed sessions; distributed trials, massed sessions; massed trials, distributed sessions; and massed trials, massed sessions.
(16) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(17) The diastolic sarcomere length was not affected by the changes in thyroid state.
(18) All 3 drugs increased the basic cycle length of pacing at which VT was induced and the cycle time of the resulting VT.
(19) Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were studied in a large Algerian family which includes 6 haemophiliacs and a previously described case of female haemophilia A.
(20) The mean length of the seminal vesicles was 2.98 cm.
Sarong
Definition:
(n.) A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Fouad removed the white piece of cloth, we were outside a small compound surrounded by heavily armed men, some in local sarongs, others in shalwar kameez.
(2) We were always paying bribes,” Hussein said, wearing the traditional Burmese longi , a type of sarong.
(3) Dressed in white shirts over their green sarongs, dozens of young men poured down the concrete step of the army barracks and across the compound.
(4) He would later claim that he lost the job because his only sarong was accidentally torn and he could not afford to replace it.
(5) And wearing a sarong, as footballers generally don’t.
(6) Just 30 years ago, Samarinda was a sleepy village surrounded by deep equatorial forest and known mostly for its traditionally woven sarongs.
(7) Booths have been erected in schools and monasteries and long queues of people hoping to avoid the heat arrived early and patiently waited, many wearing traditional “longyi” sarongs and some holding children.
(8) Her roster of artists includes Htein Lin , a former political prisoner who in six years behind bars created 200 works on white cotton longyis , the Burmese sarongs that were prison uniform.
(9) A few cargo ships gingerly waited in the harbour, the markets were crowded and in the dusk hours the wet sands of the Arabian sea glittered with the reflections of women in black abayas and fathers in sarongs paddling with their children.
(10) He graduated from high school in 1939, working briefly in a village bank, and would later claim he lost the job because his only sarong was accidentally torn and he could not afford to replace it.
(11) With his sarong, his floppy hair and his pop star girlfriend, the boy Beckham had always been as much an enemy of "English" football as its hero .
(12) Some units wore khaki trousers and white T-shirts while others had just a few military garments, casting a jacket over a sarong.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ellen Phiri, 23, maternity bag contents: torch, black plastic sheet, razor blade, string, 200 Malawian kwacha note and three large sarongs.
(14) Forget the sarong and the experiments with pink nail varnish.
(15) Tall with a concave chest and pencil-thin moustache, he wore a threadbare sarong with a new, elegant heavy-wool jacket in the midday heat.
(16) The main physical threat is from developers who want to change the unique facades of the old town houses, but earnest and determined Tharanga is also charged with making sure the fort doesn’t become an open museum that only rich tourists can afford to stay and shop in – there are already six boutique hotels, a growing number of upmarket shops selling $40 sarongs and luxury beauty products and restaurants offering cocktails and sushi.
(17) But there is one thing that even now no man feels comfortable doing … one boundary that, even in his sarong-and-nail-varnish-wearing pomp, David Beckham never dared to over-step … one convention that no shock-rocker has ever had the courage to defy.
(18) Hundreds of men, young and old, tribesmen in short sarongs and others of African decent stood in rows.
(19) A boy in a yellow sarong runs into the water, towards fishing boats bobbing serenely in the Indian Ocean.