Lengthen

Definition

length / leŋθ / n ၁။ [U] အရွည္။ အလ်ား။ a river 300 miles in length ❍ This room is twice the length of the other, but much narrower. ❍ He ran the entire length of the beach. ❍ Her new book is about the length of (ie as long as) ‘War and Peace’. ❍ DIMENSION ၂။ [U] (ခ်ိန္)တာ။ You spend a ridiculous length of time in the shower. ❍ Size of pension depends partly on length of service with the company. ၃။ [C] (တစ္)လ်ား။ I can swim 50 lengths of the school pool. ❍ The horse won the race by two clear lengths (ie by a distance equal to twice its own lenght). ၄။ [C] (တစ္)ပင္။ (တစ္)စ။ (တစ္)ခ်ပ္။ timber sold in lengths of 2, 5 or 10 metres ❍ a length of wire / string / rope. ❏ at length [ IDM ] ၁။ ( fml ) ေနာက္ပိတ္ဆံုး။ ေနာက္ဆံုး က်ေတာ့။ ‘I’m still not sure,’ he said at length. ၂။ အေသးစိတ္။ အခ်ိန္ယူ၍။ an issue already examined at some / great length in these columns ❍ I listened at length to her story. ❏ go to any, some, great, etc lengths (to do sth) [ IDM ] (ဘာမဆို၊ မျဖစ္မေန၊ မရအရ၊ ႀကိဳးစားပမ္းစား စသည္) လုပ္သည္။ They went to absurd / extraordinary lenghts to keep the affair secret. ❍ There are no lengths to which addicts will not go to obtain their drugs. ❏ the length and breadth of sth [ IDM ] ေနရာ အႏွံ႔အျပား။ အဝန္း။ travel the length and breadth of Ireland. ❏ -length (forming compound adjs )… ရွည္လ်ားေသာ။ …အထိရွည္ေသာ။ a knee-length dress ❍ floor-length curtains ❍ a feature-length film. ❏ lengthen v ရွည္လာသည္။ ဆန္႔သည္။ lengthen a skirt ❍ the lengthening queues / shadows ❍ The days are starting to lengthen again. Compare SHORTEN ❏ lengthways (also lengthwise) adv အလ်ားလိုက္။ Cut the banana in half lengthways.

Examples

1. Cut the cloth to the required length.
2. This beautiful bird is small
3. with a total length of about three inches.
4. The length of your swimming pool is not important.
5. [of equal/unequal length] : Use two planks of unequal length.
6. [in length] : The boat was 16 feet in length.
7. The length of your talk must be at least 10 minutes.
8. The average length of stay in hospital is three days.
9. [length of time] : You can adjust the length of time that the light remains on.
10. [for any length of time] : When standing for any length of time
11. remember to flex your knees.
12. His latest novel is twice the length of his previous one.
13. Carter ran half the length of the pitch to score a brilliant goal.
14. [along something’s length] : The pier was lit up along its entire length.
15. [run the length of something] : A proposed tourist trail will run the length of the river.
16. A length of pipe/rope/string
17. He still managed to finish seven lengths ahead of the rest.