单词 | breadth |
释义 | breadth —breadthless, adj. /bredth, bretth, breth/, n. 1. the measure of the second largest dimension of a plane or solid figure; width. 2. an extent or piece of something of definite or full width or as measured by its width: a breadth of cloth. 3. freedom from narrowness or restraint; liberality: a person with great breadth of view. 4. size in general; extent. 5. Art. a broad or general effect due to subordination of details or nonessentials. [1515-25; earlier bredeth, equiv. to brede breadth (ME; OE braedu, equiv. to braed-, mutated var. of brad BROAD + -u n. suffix) + -TH1; akin to G Breite, Goth braidei] Syn. 3. latitude, impartiality, open-mindedness. 4. scope, range, reach, compass, span. |
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