different between length vs suprasegmental
length
English
Etymology
From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþu (“longness; length”), from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþ?, equivalent to long +? -th. Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: l?ng(k)th, l?n(t)th, IPA(key): /l??(k)?/, /l?n(t)?/
- Rhymes: -??k?, -???, -?nt?, -?n?
Noun
length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- Duration.
- 1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- 1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- 1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club (page 38)
- […] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […]
- 1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, ?Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre (page 45)
- The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]
- 1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club (page 38)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
length (third-person singular simple present lengths, present participle lengthing, simple past and past participle lengthed)
- (obsolete) To lengthen.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIV. 30:
- Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
- 1552, Richard Huloet, "Ladies of Destinie" in Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum
- Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.
- a. 1608, Thomas Sackville, Allegorical Personages described in Hell
- [He] knows full well life doth but length his pain.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIV. 30:
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suprasegmental
English
Etymology
supra- +? segmental
Noun
suprasegmental (plural suprasegmentals)
- (phonetics) An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.
Adjective
suprasegmental (not comparable)
- Of or relating to a suprasegmental.
- More than a segment.
Cebuano
Etymology
From English suprasegmental.
Noun
suprasegmental
- (phonetics) a suprasegmental
Adjective
suprasegmental
- of or relating to a suprasegmental
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sup?ase?men?tal/, [su.p?a.se??.m?n??t?al]
Adjective
suprasegmental (plural suprasegmentales)
- suprasegmental
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