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. – TrevorD …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Apr 19, 2015 · Height used to be written with an ie, and weight with an i. (And in Middle Dutch it was oo and i, and in German it's ö and i...) So yes, it evolved that way. The spelling, that is, …

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 …

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 …

Nov 21, 2012 · That’s because that way the video conveniently takes a picture of the bandits with their height clearly documented. That said, the standard police lineup technique doesn’t work …

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 …

yay or yea (YAY) adv by 1950s To this extent; this; so | A sort of demonstrative adverb used with adjectives of size, height, extent, etc., and often accompanied by a hand gesture indicating …