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Width vs Heighth - What's the difference?

width | heighth |

As nouns the difference between width and heighth

is that width is the state of being wide while heighth is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

width

English

Noun

(wikipedia width) (en noun)
  • The state of being wide.
  • The measurement of the extent of something from side to side.
  • A piece of material measured along its smaller dimension, especially fabric.
  • (cricket) The horizontal distance between a batsman and the ball as it passes him.
  • (sports) The use of all the width of the pitch, from one side to the other.
    • Manchester United like to play with width .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 18 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England looked to put width on the ball after the restart, Armitage very nearly going over in the corner only for the video referee to decide his foot was in touch. But Armitage did get on the score-sheet five minutes later, Ben Foden straightening and putting the London Irish man in. }}

    Synonyms

    * (extent or measure of how broad or wide something is) breadth

    Related terms

    * wide * wideness * breadth

    heighth

    English

    Alternative forms

    * highth * height

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1690 , Nicholas Barbon, A Discourse of Trade [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=87224667&tag=Barbon,+Nicholas,+d.+1698:+A+Discourse+of+Trade,+1690&query=+heighth&id=BarDisc]:
    • In the Infancy of the World, Governments began with little Families and Colonies of Men; so that, when ever any Government arrived to greater Heighth than the rest, either by the great Wisdom or Courage of the Government, they afterwards grew a pace...
  • * 1700 , Colley Cibber, Richard III [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=167134294&tag=Cibber,+Colley:+Richard+III,+1700&query=+heighth&id=Cib3Ric]:
    • 'Why then to me this restless World's but Hell,
    Till this mishapen trunks aspiring head
    'Be circled in a glorious Diadem --
    But then 'tis fixt on such an heighth , O!...
  • * 1809 , James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco (London 1809, p. 169)
    • The heighth of the celestial happiness is to see God (...).
  • * 1826 , James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=763111755&textreg=1&query=+heighth&id=eaf056v2]
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  • (US, proscribed)
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1962 , year_published=2008 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Anthony Burgess , title=A Clockwork Orange , chapter= citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Heinemann , isbn= , page=2 , passage=The four of us were dressed in the heighth of fashion, ... }}

    References

    * WSU.EDU * [http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-hei1.htm]