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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rate |
| Synonyms: | distance, length, measure, range, space, span |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exercising, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, mobilization, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, relevance, service, serviceability, treatment, usability, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear, wont, worth |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | wear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use, corrosion |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, attrition, damage, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, diminution, disappearance, employment, erosion, friction, impairment, inroads, loss, mileage, service, usefulness, utility, waste, wear and tear |
| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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appaumé, armshot, as long as my arm, as long as to, interminable, latitudinal, lengthened, lengthy, lineal, linear, long, longitudinal, longsome, no end of, oblong, outstretched, prolate, sesquipedalian, unshortened, wiredrawn
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| Concept: | Length. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
length, longitude, span; mileage., line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius., lengthening; prolongation, production, protraction; tension, tensure; extension., [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain; arpent, handbreadth, jornada [U.S.], kos, vara., pedometer, perambulator; scale (measurement).
-verbs
be long; stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch to; make a long arm, "drag its slow length along.", render long; lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong, produce, protract; let out, draw out, spinout; drawl., enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
-adjectives
long, longsome; lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched; lengthened; sesquipedalian (words); interminable, no end of; macrocolous., linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong., as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened (shorten [more]).
-adverbs
lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along; tandem; in a line (continuously); in perspective., from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.
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| Antonyms: | shortness |
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| Concept: | Use. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
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-nouns
use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail., [Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear., [Way of using] usage.
-verbs
use, make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work., ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try., render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of., fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of., use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.
-adjectives
in use; used; well-worn, well-trodden., useful; subservient (instrumental).
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| Antonyms: | disuse, misuse |
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