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 …

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 …

Jun 2, 2018 · "the height of the boat when it is in the water excluding masts etc." is not operationally useful. It won't prevent water from entering and it won't prevent the boat from …

Dec 6, 2014 · 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, …

8.5" x 11" seems to be the cleanest way to write these numbers in a text. Other proper ways are 8 1/2" x 11", 8.5in x 11in, 8.5 x 11 Inches.

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 …

Feb 7, 2015 · A measurable extent of a particular kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height: Length is a dimension in this system. Transforming a noun into an adjective with -al denotes …