Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used. He was a 6-foot 5-inch man. (Not: 6-foot-5-inch man, with three hyphens.) She gave birth to a 7-pound 11-ounce …

Jan 31, 2012 · In describing the box or cube, you would use height, length, breadth, width and depth, with breadth, width and depth being interchangeable. I would use a diagram or key to …

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). The best I've been able to come up with so far are …

Oct 24, 2015 · Five-foot six and a half is the only well-understood way to express this height for Americans, so really just about anything else is equally good (bad), so long as you specify the …

For example, the word height in proper speech is approximately [hait], but it's often pronounced something like [haitθ]. This is due to influence by other words denoting qualities of …

dimensions Use figures and spell out inches, feet, yards, etc., to indicate depth, height, length, and width. Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns. Hyphenate adjectival forms before …

However, the aerospace sense seems quite different. During a recent rocket launch, the announcer repeated phrases like "Height is nominal. Power is nominal." to mean these values …

Oct 27, 2014 · Floor is where you get off or live. Story is a measurement of height. You would say: I live on the 10th floor. That building is 30 stories high. You would not say: I live on the 10th …

The answer to "how tall are you?" isn't really a noun, and it isn't a verb. It's closest 'basic' linguistic element is in fact an adjective (describing your height). People sense this, so over the decades …

Aug 26, 2011 · As height is not being mentioned here, but rather distance on a horizontal scale, "higher" would be inappropriate. "Bigger" refers to size, not magnitude, and therefore, in this …