ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. be contiguous &c adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate,
come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c 46.
[cause to be contiguous] juxtapose; contact; join (unite) 43; link (vinculum) 45.
Adj. contiguous; touching &c v.; in contact &c n.; conterminous, end to end, osculatory;
pertingent † ; tangential.
hand to hand; close to &c (near) 197; with no interval &c 198.
2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS
200. Length -- N. length, longitude, span; mileage; distance &c 196.
line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.
lengthening &c v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension, tensure † ; extension.
[Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood,
pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent † , handbreadth † , jornada [U.S.], kos † , vara † .
[astronomical units of distance] astronomical unit, AU, light-year, parsec.
[metric units of length] nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter,
mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km.
pedometer, perambulator; scale &c (measurement) 466.
V. be long &c adj.; stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch to; make a long arm,
drag its slow length along.
render long &c adj.; lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong, produce, protract; let
out, draw out, spin out † ; drawl.
enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
distend (expand) 194.
Adj. long, longsome † ; lengthy, wiredrawn † , outstretched; lengthened &c v.;
sesquipedalian &c (words) 577; interminable, no end of; macrocolous † .
linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong.
as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened &c (shorten) &c 201
[Obs.].
Adv. lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong † , along; tandem; in a line &c
(continuously) 69; in perspective.
from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to
the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.
201. Shortness -- N. shortness &c adj.; brevity; littleness &c 193; a span.
shortening &c v.; abbreviation, abbreviature † ; abridgment, concision, retrenchment,
curtailment, decurtation † ; reduction &c (contraction) 195; epitome &c (compendium)
596.
elision, ellipsis; conciseness &c (in style) 572.
abridger, epitomist † , epitomizer † .
V. be short &c adj.; render short &c adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in,
reduce; compress &c (contract) 195; epitomize &c 596.
retrench, cut short, obtruncate † ; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down;
clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip,
check the growth of; foreshorten (in drawing).