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Lengthwise definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LENGTH'WISE, adv. In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; "the lengthwise dimension" [syn: lengthwise, lengthways] [ant: crosswise] adv
1: in the direction of the length; "He cut the paper lengthwise" [syn: lengthways, lengthwise, longwise, longways, longitudinally]

Merriam Webster's

adverb Date: circa 1580 in the direction of the length ; longitudinally • lengthwise adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. & adj. --adv. lengthways. --adj. lying or moving lengthways.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lengthways Length"ways` (-w[=a]z`), Lengthwise Length"wise` (-w[imac]z`), adv. In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Lengthwise means the same as lengthways. Peel the onion and cut it in half lengthwise. ADV: ADV after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. See lengthways

Moby Thesaurus

along, at full length, at length, endlong, endways, endwise, evenly, flat, flatly, flatways, flatwise, flush, horizontally, in length, lengthways, level, longitudinally, longways, longwise, on a level