- 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, 4 months ago Modified 4 years, 7 months ago
- 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
- orthography - Spelling of high vs height - English Language Usage . . .
So height is spelled as a compromise, maintaining the pronunciation of "hight" while being spelled with ei to reflect the Old English ties The ei form is older--as the OED notes, hight was created in later assimilation with the word high High, on the other hand, maintains its Middle English roots
- single word requests - X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and . . .
70 When working in a 2D coordinate system you could say that X is the horizontal axis and Y is the vertical axis Extending this to 3D, is there a similar word for the Z axis? (I'm aware of Width, Height and Depth, but obviously horizontal and vertical aren't synonymous to width and height, which is why I don't want to call the Z axis the depth
- 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)
- elevation vs altitude - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In the airline industry elevation = height above ground and altitude = height above sea level Altitude is used to calculate air pressure, elevation is used to make sure you don't crash into mountains
- 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
- 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
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