Finger's+breadth

  • 31fingers-breadth — fingˈer breadth or fingˈers breadth noun The breadth of a finger, a digit, as a unit of measurement (1.4cm or 3/4 of an inch) • • • Main Entry: ↑finger …

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  • 32fin|ger|breadth — «FIHNG guhr BREHDTH, BREHTTH», noun. the breadth of a finger, about ¾ inch …

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  • 33fingerbreadth — noun the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure • Syn: ↑finger, ↑finger s breadth, ↑digit • Hypernyms: ↑linear unit, ↑linear measure * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun : a unit of length ba …

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  • 34fingerbreadth — n. the length or breadth of a finger used as a linear measure. Syn: finger, finger s breadth, digit. [WordNet 1.5] …

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  • 35measurement system — Introduction       any of the systems used in the process of associating numbers with physical quantities and phenomena (metrology). Although the concept of weights and measures (measurement) today includes such factors as temperature, luminosity …

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  • 36fingerbreadth — /ˈfɪŋgəbrɛdθ/ (say fingguhbredth), / brɛtθ/ (say bretth) noun the breadth of a finger, about 20 millimetres. Also, finger s breadth …

  • 37Narrowness — (Roget s Thesaurus) Thinness < N PARAG:Narrowness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 narrowness narrowness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 closeness closeness exility Sgm: N 1 exiguity exiguity &c.(little) 193 GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 line …

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  • 38digit — [15] Digit was borrowed from Latin digitus. This meant ‘finger or toe’, but its underlying etymological sense is probably ‘pointer’; it appears to come from an Indo European base *deik , which also produced Latin dicere ‘say’ (originally ‘point… …

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  • 39digit — [15] Digit was borrowed from Latin digitus. This meant ‘finger or toe’, but its underlying etymological sense is probably ‘pointer’; it appears to come from an Indo European base *deik , which also produced Latin dicere ‘say’ (originally ‘point… …

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  • 40digit — dig it (d[i^]j [i^]t), n. [L. digitus finger; prob. akin to Gr. da ktylos, of uncertain origin; possibly akin to E. toe. Cf. {Dactyl}.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. [1913 Webster] The ruminants …

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