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# inch

«inch» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small unit of length, about as wide as your thumb; 12…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (inch, inches); verb (inch, inches, inched, inching — to move very slowly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An inch is a small unit of length, about as wide as your thumb; 12 inches make 1 foot. A foot is 12 inches. A yard is 36 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#m1)

2) To inch forward is to move very slowly, a little bit at a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#m2)

3) «Every inch» means all of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a unit of length for jumps, heights and lengths in maths; rulers in the USA show inches on one side and centimeters on the other; screens, pizzas and snow are measured in inches; phrases «inch by inch», «every inch», «inch forward»

### examples

- The grasshopper jumped 19 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x1)
- The ribbon is 36 inches long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x2)
- The plant grew 2 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x3)
- How many inches farther did the frog jump? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x4)
- My ruler is 12 inches long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x5)
- We got 6 inches of snow last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x6)
- The cat inched closer to the bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x7)
- The line moved inch by inch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x8)
- They ordered a 14-inch pizza. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x9)
- He searched every inch of his room for the key. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x10)
- At this second lie, his nose grew a few more inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/#x11)

### note

A unit, not a thing counted; plural «inches»; short form «in.» or the mark ″. 1 inch is about 2.5 centimeters. Trap: inches and feet mixed must be changed to one unit; 12 inches = 1 foot. A pizza's inches measure across, not around.

### In the corpora

- [She sheds "gallons of tears", making a pool about four inches deep that reaches half down the hall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/3-alice-ch2-part1-curiouser-and-curiouser/11/)
- [Toad says that's nonsense, he knows every inch of his house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/68-willows-ch11-part4-the-secret-passage/1/)
- [Never walk or drive into flood water: fast water only 15 centimetres (6 inches) deep can knock a person over.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/15-weather-signs/18/)
- [Just 6 inches of moving water can knock a person off their feet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/20/)
- [A child uses a booster seat until the adult belt fits, usually around 145 to 150 cm or 4 feet 9 inches tall.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/268-in-the-car-and-seat-belts/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «inch» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/inch/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.