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# width

noun (width, widths)

«width» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Width is how wide something is, the distance from one side to the other. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#m2)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x1)
- The length is twice the width. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x3)
- The width is 2 cm less than the length. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x4)
- The sofa will not fit through the width of the door. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x5)
- I swam ten widths of the pool today. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x6)
- Measure the width of your book with a ruler. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/#x7)
- The road is 8 metres in width. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «width» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/width/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«width» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/width.html) on Mova free.