8.2.2 Long
Use this domain for words related to being long. In many languages there is more than one system of measuring length. These systems may be used for different purposes or in different jobs. For instance measuring the length of an object may use different words than measuring the distance a person travels.
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(1) What words describe something that is long?
Example words: long, lengthy, extensive
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(2) What words describe a long distance?
Example words: long, huge, vast
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(3) What words refer to something that is long?
Example words: a length of
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(4) What words refer to something becoming long?
Example words: get longer, lengthen, stretch
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(5) What words refer to making something long?
Example words: make something longer, lengthen, extend, stretch
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(6) What words describe something that has been made long?
Example words: lengthened, elongated, extended, stretched, outstretched
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(7) What words refer to being longer than another thing?
Example words: longer, longest
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(8) What words refer to how long something is?
Example words: length, distance, how long, span
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(9) What words indicate how long something is?
Example words: is, measure (v), long, in length, how long, be (two inches) (too) long
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(10) What words refer to measuring how long something is?
Example words: measure, pace off, step off
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(11) What words refer to a unit of length?
Example words: inch, foot, yard, mile, light year, millimeter, centimeter, meter, kilometer, day's journey
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(12) What instruments are used to measure the length of something?
Example words: caliper, chain, line, micrometer, rod, rule, ruler, tape measure, measuring tape, tapeline, yardstick
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(13) What words describe a system of lengths?
Example words: metric