Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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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.