linear measure, long measure - a measure of length

astronomy unit - a linear unit used for astronomical distances

metric linear unit - a linear unit of distance in metric terms

nautical linear unit - a linear unit of distance used in navigation

in, inch - a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot

foot, ft - a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall"

footer - (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet; "he is a six-footer"; "the golfer sank a 40-footer"; "his yacht is a 60-footer"

yard, pace - a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride

yarder - (used only in combinations) the height of length of something in yards; "the golfer hit a 300-yarder to the green"

rod, perch, pole - a linear measure of 16.5 feet

furlong - a unit of length equal to 220 yards

land mile, mile, stat mi, statute mile, mi - a unit of length equal to 1760 yards

miler - (used only in combinations) the length of something in miles; "the race was a 30-miler"

880 yards, half mile - a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile

440 yards, quarter mile - a unit of length equal to a quarter of 1 mile

league - an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)

ligne - a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons

nail - a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard

archine - a Russian unit of length (71 cm)

coss, kos - an Indian unit of length having different values in different localities

vara - a Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities

verst - a Russian unit of length (1.067 km)

cable length, cable's length, cable - a nautical unit of depth

chain - a unit of length

cubit - an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm

finger's breadth, fingerbreadth, digit, finger - the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure

fistmele - about seven inches; the breadth of a fist with the thumb stuck out (used especially in archery to give the correct distance of the string from the bow)

body length - the length of your body

handbreadth, handsbreadth - any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand

head - the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head; "he is two heads taller than his little sister"; "his horse won by a head"

lea - a unit of length of thread or yarn

li - Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers

link - a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain

mesh - the number of opening per inch of a screen; measures size of particles; "a 100 mesh screen"; "100 mesh powdered cellulose"

mil - a unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch; used to specify thickness (e.g., of sheets or wire)

Swedish mile, mile - a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

Roman mile, mile - an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

Roman pace - an ancient Roman unit of length (4.85 English feet) measured as the distance from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when next it touches the ground

geometric pace - a modern version of the Roman pace now taken to be 5 feet

military pace - the length of a single step in marching (taken to be 30 inches for quick time or 36 inches for double time)

palm - a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand

span - a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)

fathom, fthm - a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth

point - a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch

pica, pica em, em - a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing