Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Lengthwise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
lengthwise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the direction of the length; running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing; in a longitudinal direction. Contrasted with
crosswise .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
lengthwise - adverb
lengthwise
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in the direction of the length
- adjective running or extending in the direction of the length of a thing
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Examples
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I remember being once shown by an indignant collector a set of utterly and hopelessly destroyed copies of rare tracts connected with the religious disputes of Queen Elizabeth's day, each inlaid and separately bound in a thin volume in the finest morocco, with the title lengthways along the back.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Cut each half again lengthways and then slice into 1/5-inch-thick pieces.
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Cut each half again lengthways and then slice into 1/5-inch-thick pieces.
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You can make quarter-button shapes by chopping the halved carrot again lengthways before slicing.
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You can make quarter-button shapes by chopping the halved carrot again lengthways before slicing.
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Very damp; and with bloodstains all down one of the long edges, lengthways, that is.’
Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955
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So is the "Modified Citro ë n DS" 1993, in which the archetypal French car has been split lengthways into three parts, with the middle removed and the remaining two joined to make an even more aerodynamic object than the original — from some vantage-points it resembles a gigantic dart.
Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything Paul Levy 2011
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Cut lengthways, then widthways into four boat shapes and scoop out the seeds.
Family life 2011
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Meanwhile cut the celery sticks lengthways into 1cm pieces and rough-chop the celery leaves.
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Although it was three or four metres away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compart ments, and that there was some kind of creature in each.
Inspiration 2009
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