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Length vs Annosity - What's the difference?

length | annosity |

As nouns the difference between length and annosity

is that length is the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object while annosity is fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.

As a verb length

is to lengthen.

length

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
  • duration
  • * Robert Frost
    • Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length .
  • (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.
    • the length of a book
  • Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
    • a length of rope

    Derived terms

    * arm's length * at length * cable length * feature-length * floor-length * focal length * full-length * good length * go to great lengths * half-length * knee-length * lengthen * lengthful * length overall * lengthways * lengthwise * lengthy * line and length * null patch length * overlength * path length * screening length * short of a length * wavelength * zero-length launching

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To lengthen.
  • * 1599 , , XIV. 30:
    • Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words

    annosity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) Fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.
  • * 1654 : , The Reign of King Charles, an History faithfully and impartially delivered and disposed into Annals , page 136
    • Robert Parr…the wonder of our times for annosity and long life.
  • * 1994 : , volume 332, issues 7,879–7,882, page 84
    • […] the guardian of this columbarium?—?he missed that one?—?is plainly not a pedant at all. He just has a quirky love of words. Johnson wishes him annosity of his […]

    References

    * (1742 edition)
    ??''Annosity     , Agedness. * A Compleat Dictionary English and Dutch, to which is added a Grammar, for both Languages'', by William Sewel [compil.] and Egbert Buys [ed.] (1766), volume 1, page 21
    ??ANNOSITY, ''Ouderdom     . * Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in the English Language'', by James Leslie (1806), page 7
    ??AGEDNESS. ''s.     Annosity. * Encyclopædia Perthensis; or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c.'' (2nd Ed.; 1816), volume II, page 183
    ??ANNOSITY, agedne?s. ''Bailey.     * “ †a?nnosity]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989