Word Meanings - HALF-LENGTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.

Related words: (words related to HALF-LENGTH)

• LENGTHFUL
  Long. Pope.
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• WHOLE-HOOFED
  Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.
• ORDINARY
  1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality,
• LENGTHINESS
  The state or quality of being lengthy; prolixity.
• PICTURESQUISH
  Somewhat picturesque.
• WHOLESALE
  1. Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price. 2. Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter. "A time for
• LENGTHWAYS; LENGTHWISE
  In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.
• WHOLE-SOULED
  Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
• PICTURER
  One who makes pictures; a painter. Fuller.
• PICTURE
  1. The art of painting; representation by painting. Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced
• LENGTHILY
  In a lengthy manner; at great length or extent.
• ORDINARYSHIP
  The state of being an ordinary. Fuller.
• PICTURESQUE
  Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as,
• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• LENGTHY
  Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy
• PICTURED
  Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
• LENGTH
  1. The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can be drawn through a body, parallel to its sides; as, the length of a church, or of a ship; the
• WHOLESOME
  1. Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith. 2. Contributing to the health of the
• WHOLE
  1. The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself. "This not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die. J. Montgomery. 2. A regular combination of parts;
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• SUBORDINARY
  One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always
• IMPICTURED
  Pictured; impressed. Spenser.
• ALENGTH
  At full length; lenghtwise. Chaucer.
• UNWHOLE
  Not whole; unsound.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• HALF-LENGTH
  Of half the whole or ordinary length, as a picture.
• MOVING PICTURE
  A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision,
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.