- Height and Weight - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used Ask Question Asked 11 years, 9 months ago Modified 4 years, 11 months ago
- punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In the United States, most style guides that I have encountered recommend including the second hyphen in situations such as "8-foot-long bridge " Here is how some guides frame their advice From The Associated Press Stylebook (2002): dimensions Use figures and spell out inches, feet, yards, etc , to indicate depth, height, length, and width Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns [Relevant
- Origin of height - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
According to Etymonline, Height, has many different possible origins height (n ) Old English hiehþu, Anglian hehþo "highest part or point, summit; the heavens, heaven," from root of heah "hi
- What is a single word which can properly describe age, height, weight . . .
7 I am completing a final assignment for a statistics course, and need a single word to describe age, height, weight and BMI (body mass index)
- Does one hyphenate height when given in feet and inches?
Please provide the context for your quotation Also, have you considered the audience for your work? Many non-American readers may not understand that *five-one" means "five feet one inch"; British readers might, but even in Britain a person's height is now given in metres
- american english - How to express someones height in metric - English . . .
12 If someone is 169cm tall, what is the most common way of saying their height in metres and centimetres in American Australian British English? I'm not interested in converting metres (meters) and centimetres (centimeters) into feet and inches, which would be “five foot six” (5'6"), I know how to say and write that
- terminology - Word for the distance from the waterline to the main deck . . .
In other words, the height of the main deck (or gunwale if that has a name) above the water when the ship is at sea To understand my motivation, broadly speaking I am interested in the furthest you would fall if you were standing on the main deck and went overboard The distance from the waterline to the bottom of the boat is called the draught
- Which to use: altitude or elevation in regards to height above sea . . .
1 The altitude is the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level; the elevation is the height above a given level, especially the sea level The flight data include airspeed and altitude It is a network of microclimates created by sharp differences in elevation
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