Vitruvius

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

Roman Author

Stella McCartney

What you wear in the evening is important for women because it's so personal, and it's so complicated to get it right. I like trousers for evening, especially when they have that width and attitude to them.

British Designer

Max Beckmann

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

German Artist

Nicki Minaj

My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.

American Musician

Chris Thile

Musicians and non-musicians alike are priding themselves on the width and breadth of their musical interests, which I think is to be encouraged.

Diane Ackerman

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

American Poet

Jonathan Agnew

What you can never do on a slow pitch is bowl with any width. If you bowl straight it's almost impossible to get the ball away.

English Entertainer

Herb Caen

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

American Journalist

Steven Wright

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

American Comedian

Paul Scholes

At United, we like to have wingers who give the team width and pace.

English Athlete

Focus on the physical space between sides, not the object's height or length.

Physical Distance

Width is usually measured in units like meters, inches, or pixels.

Measurement Unit

Width is the distance across, not along. It's horizontal, not vertical.

Across Not Along

Width can describe the range of something non-physical, like knowledge.

Metaphorical Use

Width in abstract contexts can be subjective, depending on perspective.

Subjective Extent

Often implies depth or thoroughness in intellectual pursuits.

Intellectual Depth

Width refers to how wide a piece of material is when fully extended.

Material Measurement

When cutting material, width determines the size of a piece from side to side.

Cut to Size

In crafts, width is a key measurement for fitting or creating items.

For Crafting

 for the design of this button. You had to work within specific height and width parameters. You had to be careful to make it work in a bunch of different languages, and be careful about using fancy gradients or borders because it has to degrade gracefully in old web browsers. The truth is, designing this tiny little button

Margaret Gould Stewart:...

 The analemma's width represents the extent of this deviation. So how did people know the correct time years ago? For most of human history, going by the Sun's position was close enough. But during the modern era, the difference between sundials and mechanical clocks became important.

The Sun’s surprising...

 it will stop in about a millionth of a second. In that time, it will have traveled less than the width of a single atom. The same holds true for a sperm and many other microbes. It all has to do with being really small. Microscopic creatures inhabit a world alien to us,

Human sperm vs. the...

 normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 just residing within a hair's width of the surface of the skin. Now, as the guy that's invented this thing and designed it to do that, I found that exciting. But so what? So what if you've targeted cells? In the world of vaccines, what does that mean?

Mark Kendall: Demo: A...

 That's about one-seventh the width of a human hair. And then that provides me with a deep stack of images. Each has a tiny sliver of focus all the way through. And I can squash that down to produce one image that is fully focused from front to back.

Mind-blowing, magnified...

 Far thicker and longer than normal hairs whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings, telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly. Their whiskers are the same width as their body

How Do Cats Use Their...

 know they're on chest width there aren't survivors clubs you know that get together and think about the old days at the abattoir and at the far end of it there was a door that said veterinarian and I thought well he must be depressed you

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 far thicker and longer than normal hairs whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their

Top 5 Animal Superpowers!...

 say, octagons. But all are completely flat. They scurry about on foot or in little vehicles, in and out of their flat buildings, busy with their flat lives. Everyone on this world has width and length

Width

The measurement of something from one side to the other side.

Often appears as...

The extent or range of an object or a person's thoughts or feelings.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

A piece of something at its full extent from side to side.

Often appears as...

Physical Distance

Measurement Unit

Across Not Along

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