Word Meanings - HANDBREADTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii.

Related words: (words related to HANDBREADTH)

• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• EQUAL
  Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed. (more info) 1. Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• BREADTHWAYS
  Breadthwise. Whewell.
• SPACEFUL
  Wide; extensive. Sandys.
• EQUALIZATION
  The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke.
• EQUALITARIAN
  One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler.
• EQUALLY
  In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc.
• EQUALNESS
  Equality; evenness. Shak.
• BREADTH
  1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• UNEQUALNESS
  The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor.
• SUBEQUAL
  Nearly equal.
• DISPACE
  To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
• COEQUALITY
  The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
• UNEQUALED
  Not equaled; unmatched; unparalleled; unrivaled; exceeding; surpassing; -- in a good or bad sense; as, unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness.
• HYPERSPACE
  An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
• COEQUAL
  Being on an equality in rank or power. -- n.
• HAIRBREADTH
  Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
• FOOTBREADTH
  The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.
• HANDBREADTH
  A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii.