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- Height and Weight - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used He was a 6-foot 5-inch man (Not: 6-foot-5-inch man, with three hyphens ) She gave birth to a 7-pound 11-ounce baby (Not: 7-pound-11-ounce baby, with three hyphens ) And, it should be, I believe: He is 6 feet 5 inches tall (Not: 6 feet, 5 inches tall )
- single word requests - X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and . . .
In describing the box or cube, you would use height, length, breadth, width and depth, with breadth, width and depth being interchangeable I would use a diagram or key to specify what you mean in your particular case x = breadth; y = height; z = depth
- meaning - Is the difference in English between height and length based . . .
Height is the distance from the base to the top whereas length is always the longest of the three dimensions, height, length, and width I would superimpose an assumed restriction for inanimate objects of being in a stable position for statistical categorization
- What is a single word which can properly describe age, height, weight . . .
I am completing a final assignment for a statistics course, and need a single word to describe age, height, weight and BMI (body mass index) The best I've been able to come up with so far are physical characteristics which isn't actually a good explanation for those terms, characteristics by itself, and traits , neither of which fit very well
- differences - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
For example, the word height in proper speech is approximately [hait], but it's often pronounced something like [haitθ] This is due to influence by other words denoting qualities of measurement ( length, width, depth ) which all end in [θ]
- punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
dimensions Use figures and spell out inches, feet, yards, etc , to indicate depth, height, length, and width Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns [Relevant examples:] the 5-foot-6-inch man, the 9-by-12 rug
- american english - How to express someones height in metric - English . . .
Five-foot six and a half is the only well-understood way to express this height for Americans, so really just about anything else is equally good (bad), so long as you specify the units— thus, my vote would go to 1–3, 5, and 8
- How did nominal come to mean within acceptable tolerances?
However, the aerospace sense seems quite different During a recent rocket launch, the announcer repeated phrases like "Height is nominal Power is nominal " to mean these values were within the acceptable and expected ranges The OED references these sources [Hat tip @tchrist]: 6 (See quot 1970 ) 1966 Aviation Week Space Technology 5 Dec 30 1
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