Roget's Thesaurus. Peter Mark Roget

187; incompleteness &c. 53. [interval of time] period &c. 108; interim (time) 106. V. gape &c. (open) 260. Adj. with an interval, far between; breachy[obs3], rimose[obs3], rimulose[obs3]. Adv. at intervals &c. (discontinuously) 70; longo intervallo[It].

      #199. Contiguity.— N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition,

       abuttal[obs3], juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse[obs3],

       rencontre[obs3], rencounter[obs3], syzygy[Astron], coincidence,

       coexistence; adhesion &c. 46; touching &c. v. (see touch 379).

       borderland; frontier &c. (limit) 233; tangent; abutter.

       V. be contiguous &c. adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze,

       touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c. 46.

       [transitive][cause to be contiguous] juxtapose; contact; join (unite)

       43; link (vinculum) 45.

       Adj. contiguous; touching &c. v.; in contact &c. n.; conterminous, end

       to end, osculatory; pertingent|; tangential.

       hand to hand; close to &c. (near) 197; with no interval &c. 198.

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      #200. Length.— N. length, longitude, span; mileage; distance &c. 196.

       line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.

       lengthening &c. v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension,

       tensure[obs3]; extension.

       [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard,

       ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent[obs3],

       handbreadth[obs3], jornada [obs3][U.S.], kos[obs3], vara[obs3].

       [astronomical units of distance] astronomical unit, AU, light-year,

       parsec.

       [metric units of length] nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer,

       millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km.

       pedometer, perambulator; scale &c. (measurement) 466.

       V. be long &c. adj.; stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch

       to; make a long arm, "drag its slow length along."

       render long &c. adj.; lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong,

       produce, protract; let out, draw out, spin out|!; drawl.

       enfilade, look along, view in perspective.

       distend (expand) 194.

       Adj. long, longsome[obs3]; lengthy, wiredrawn[obs3], outstretched;

       lengthened &c. v.; sesquipedalian &c. (words) 577; interminable, no end

       of; macrocolous[obs3].

       linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong.

       as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened &c.

       (shorten &c. 201)[obs3].

       Adv. lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong[obs3], along;

       tandem; in a line &c. (continuously) 69; in perspective.

       from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown

       of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.

      #201. Shortness.— N. shortness &c. adj.; brevity; littleness &c. 193; a span. shortening &c. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature[obs3]; abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation|; reduction &c. (contraction) 195; epitome &c. (compendium) 596. elision, ellipsis; conciseness &c. (in style) 572. abridger, epitomist[obs3], epitomizer[obs3]. V. be short &c. adj.; render short &c. adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress &c. (contract) 195; epitomize &c. 596. retrench, cut short, obtruncate[obs3]; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten[in drawing]. Adj. short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate[obs3]; retrousse[obs3]; stocky; squab, squabby[obs3]; squat, dumpy; little &c. 193; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise &c. 572; summary. Adv. shortly &c. adj.; in short &c. (concisely) 572.

      #202. Breadth, Thickness.— N. breadth, width, latitude, amplitude;

       diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent &c. (space) 180.

       thickness, crassitude[obs3]; corpulence &c. (size) 192; dilation &c.

       (expansion) 194.

       V. be broad &c. adj.; become broad, render broad &c. adj.; expand &c.

       194; thicken, widen, calibrate.

       Adj. broad, wide, ample, extended; discous[obs3]; fanlike; outspread,

       outstretched; "wide as a church-door" [Romeo and Juliet];

       latifoliate[obs3], latifolous[obs3].

       thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.

      #203. Narrowness. Thinness.— N. narrowness &c. adj.; closeness, exility[obs3]; exiguity 7c. (little) 193. line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein. monolayer; epitaxial deposition[Engin]. thinness &c. adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency[obs3], marcor|. shaving, slip &c. (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks[obs3], lantern jaws, mere skin and bone. middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut[obs3], ghat[obs3], pass; ravine &c. 198. narrowing, coarctation[obs3], angustation[obs3], tapering; contraction &c. 195. V. be narrow &c. adj.; narrow, taper, contract &c. 195; render narrow &c. adj; waste away. Adj. narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like &c. (filament) 205; finespun[obs3], gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious[obs3]; contracted &c. 195; unexpanded &c. (expand &c. 194)[obs3]; slender as a thread. [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent[obs3]; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky[U.S.]; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed. attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid[obs3], marcid|, barebone, rawboned. monomolecular.

      #204. Layer.— N. layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess[obs3]; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter. plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive[obs3], cut, rasher, shaving, integument &c. (covering) 223; eschar[obs3]. stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion. monolayer; bilayer; trilayer[Biochem]. V. slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover &c. 223. Adj. lamellar, lamellated[obs3], lamelliform[obs3], layered; laminated, laminiferous[obs3]; micaceous[obs3]; schistose, schistous[obs3]; scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous[Anat]; foliated, foliaceous[obs3]; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid; spathic[obs3], spathose[obs3]. trilamellar[obs3]. graphitic[obs3].

      #205. Filament.— N. filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle[obs3], vein; hair, capillament[obs3], cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet[obs3], venula[obs3], venule[obs3]. wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute. strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving. beard &c. (roughness) 256; ramification; strand. Adj. filamentous, filamentiferous[obs3], filaceous[obs3], filiform[obs3]; fibrous, fibrillous[obs3]; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform[obs3]; funicular, wire-drawn; anguilliform[obs3]; flagelliform[obs3]; hairy &c. (rough) 256; taeniate[obs3], taeniform[obs3], taenioid[obs3]; venose[obs3], venous.

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