Word Meanings - BREADTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great

Additional info about word: BREADTH

1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great multiplicity of details, producing an impression of largeness and simple grandeur; -- called also breadth of effect. Breadth of coloring is a prominent character in the painting of all great masters. Weale.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BREADTH)

• Expanse
• Vast
• void
• space
• breadth

Related words: (words related to BREADTH)

• SPACE
  One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• BREADTHLESS
  Without breadth.
• SPACE BAR; SPACE KEY
  A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters.
• EXPANSE
  That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky. "The green expanse." Savage. Lights . . . high in the expanse of heaven. Milton. The smooth expanse of crystal lakes. Pope.
• SPACELESS
  Without space. Coleridge.
• BREADTHWAYS
  Breadthwise. Whewell.
• SPACEFUL
  Wide; extensive. Sandys.
• BREADTH
  1. Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. 2. The quality of having the colors and shadows broad and massive, and the arrangement of objects such as to avoid to great
• DISPACE
  To roam. In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.
• HYPERSPACE
  An imagined space having more than three dimensions.
• HAIRBREADTH
  Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape.
• FOOTBREADTH
  The breadth of a foot; -- used as a measure. Longfellow. Not so much as a footbreadth. Deut. ii. 5.
• HANDBREADTH
  A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii.
• HAIRBREADTH; HAIR'SBREADTH
  The diameter or breadth of a hair; a very small distance; sometimes, definitely, the forty-eighth part of an inch. Every one could sling stones at an hairbreadth and not miss. Judg. xx. 16
• ANCHOR SPACE
  In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
• ESPACE
  Space. Chaucer.
• INTERSPACE
  Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.
• CROOKES SPACE
  The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.