inch
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- noun
- /ɪnʧ/
:
pulgada
- She measured the table height and found it to be 30 inches.
- one inch
- half inch
- 1/2 inch
It is quite literally inches bigger than my left arm.
- It is quite literally inches bigger than my left arm.
- Make a perfectly round one inch diameter hole in the skull.
- and we're going to look at a three inch diameter bladder cancer
- It is a about one to three inch red tomato.
Examples
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We planted at the four inch zone right there.
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Their own father was lean, hard, and soft-spoken; an inch or two shorter than his cousin.
Fiction book (1990) -
So I pulled it up another inch and he said higher.
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These are two inch by two inch square pots.
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It's nearly a couple of inches wide, Liam.
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If the plans that her kitchen is 2 inches by 2.5 inches.
Academic text (2011) -
Make a perfectly round one inch diameter hole in the skull.
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OK, so you need an inch for your hem allowance.
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- Jacket's 2 inches thick.
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The box is 12 inches long and 8 inches wide.
Idioms
- Informal
Allowing a small favor makes someone try to take much more than you wanted
Compounds
- Specialized
7
3.4
A unit that measures pressure equal to one pound of force on one square inch
- Jargon
2
6.2
A measure of ad or text space in a newspaper one column wide and one inch deep
How Long
- Specialized
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- US
92
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- Specialized
140
2.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Inch comes from the Latin uncia, which meant 'one twelfth' and is the same root as English ounce, so an inch is a small part of a foot and today equals 2.54 centimeters.