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# width

«width» in Mova's school dictionary: **how wide something is, the distance from one side to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (width, widths)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Width is how wide something is, the distance from one side to the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#m1)

2) A width of a swimming pool is one swim across its short side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a measure of a rectangle used with length for area and perimeter; «the length is twice the width». In everyday life: the width of a door, a road or a bed; swimming widths of the pool. Phrases: «in width», «the width of», «length and width».

### examples

- The width of the room is 4 meters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x1)
- The length is twice the width. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x2)
- Find the area if the length is 6 and the width is 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x3)
- The width is 2 cm less than the length. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x4)
- The sofa will not fit through the width of the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x5)
- I swam ten widths of the pool today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x6)
- Measure the width of your book with a ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x7)
- The road is 8 metres in width. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x8)
- Its body was so big that it looked like the trunk of a large pine tree and it took up the whole width of the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x9)

### note

From the adjective «wide» (wide, wider, widest). Width is usually the shorter side, length the longer. Maths: area = length × width; perimeter = 2 × (length + width). Trap: «twice the width» refers to the width, so find it first.

### In the corpora

- [A rectangle covered by rows of unit squares has length × width of them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/106-area-of-a-rectangle/1/)
- [The perimeter of a rectangle is twice the length plus twice the width, so half the perimeter is length + width.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/146-area-from-perimeter/0/)
- [The apple pulls the Earth too, but the Earth is so heavy that it moves far less than the width of an atom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/1-why-things-fall/7/)
- [Mars is about half the Earth's width, and its day, called a sol, is about 24 hours 40 minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/8-mars/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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