| 单词 | finger-length |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfinger-length finger-length n. and adj. (a) n. the length of a finger used as a measure (cf. sense 2b); (b) adj. of the length of a finger. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > length of finger finger-length1526 1526 Grete Herball ccxxv. sig. N.iv/1 The floure growe not passynge a fynger length in heyght. a1653 H. Binning Common Princ. Christian Relig. (1659) 197 It was no toil, no difficult thing to his Majesty to stretch out these Heavens in such an infinite compasse, for as large as the circumference of them is, yet it is as easie to him to compasse them, as it is to us to span a finger-length, or two. 1750 G. Neale tr. Mem. Royal Acad. Surg. Paris I. xi. 253 The case is not the same with those who want two or three finger-lengths of the extremity of the rectum. 1842 Madison (Indiana) Courier 20 Aug. 2/4 It is so great a matter in their opinion to write a finger-length article for a newspaper. 1857 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 329 The baby is about three finger-lengths long. 1901 I. D. Morris Pacific Coast Vac. i. 6 The healing power of this root..was so great that the Chippewas on Lake Superior would give a beaver skin for a finger length piece. 1942 A. Torres-Rioseco Epic Lat. Amer. Lit. i. 35 So intense was her interest that she used to cut four or six finger-lengths off her hair. 2000 D. Nettle & S. Romaine Vanishing Voices iii. 75 The mullett, for instance, is usually referred to as 'ama'ama when it is finger-length and most delicious. < as lemmas |
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