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Definition of Lengthwise
1. Adverb. In the direction of the length. "He cut the paper lengthwise"
2. Adjective. Running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing. "The lengthwise dimension"
Similar to: Axial, End-to-end, Fore-and-aft, Linear, Running, Longitudinal
Antonyms: Crosswise
Definition of Lengthwise
1. Adjective. In the long direction of an oblong object. ¹
2. Adverb. In the long direction of an oblong object. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lengthwise
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lengthwise
Literary usage of Lengthwise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"The space between the inner sides of the end posts, lengthwise of the slab, ...
and lengthwise through the middle it is bent an inch and a sixteenth from ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The cylinders, blown on a blow-pipe, were cracked into lengths, split lengthwise
and flattened. The great development in window glass manufacture dates from ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Capsule 3-valved ; the valves bearing the seeds along their middle ; each, after
dehiscence, in drying firmly folds together lengthwise, and by its ..."
4. Toscanelli and Columbus: The Letter and Chart of Toscanelli on the Route to by Henry Vignaud (1902)
"The straight lines, therefore, marked lengthwise in the chart, show the distances
from east to ... 18 The straight lines marked lengthwise and transversely. ..."
5. Mother-play and Nursery Songs: Poetry, Music and Pictures for the Noble by Friedrich Fröbel (1898)
"... The Target; or, lengthwise, Crosswise. " THOUGH meaningless this play may
seem, There's more in it than one might dream, To him who daily would behold ..."
6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... bill enters on the plumage only by a small notch, but is arched lengthwise.
AT. Vieillot has changed this name of ..."
7. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"To be sewn so as to have a seam, used of two pieces of cloth or mata sewn together
lengthwise, or of planks joined together. ..."
8. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"If the marks we perceive were caused by a human body, it is clear that the
body (supine) was laid lengthwise along one half of the shroud while the other ..."
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