Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: width
IPA transcription: [w'ɪdθ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: width, breadth
    Meaning: the extent of something from side to side
Usage examples
  • The improver has sought to increase the width of the red ring.
  • At the command of the god he built a great ship fifteen stadia long and two in width.
  • Half the width of the room was still between them, and neither made any show of moving.
  • I gazed at the naked, cheerless wall, seamed and rent with cracks along its sallow width.
  • We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous.
  • The others had rugged black surfaces, measured up to fifteen centimeters in width, and were ten or more years old.
  • Often it was almost pitch dark; then would come a greyish twilight where it opened out to the width of a decent lane.
  • The creek, walled in on all sides by precipices higher than its width, was minute by minute becoming more overshadowed by evening.
  • The outlet, or the Susquehanna, flows through a gorge in the low banks just mentioned, which may have a width of two hundred feet.
  • They stand out on each side in the lion, as well as in the common Cat; so that, from point to point, they are equal in width to the animal's body.