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When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
Jeff Merkley

Meaning of "at length" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AT LENGTH

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WHAT DOES AT LENGTH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of at length in the English dictionary

The first definition of at length in the dictionary is in depth; fully. Other definition of at length is eventually. At length is also for a long time; interminably.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AT LENGTH

at heart
at home
at home in
at intervals
at issue
at knife-point
at large
at last
at least
at leisure
at liberty
at livery
at loggerheads
at long last
at market
at most
at odds
at once
at one
at one blow

WORDS THAT END LIKE AT LENGTH

arm´s-length
cable length
core strength
dress length
electric field strength
equivalent focal length
feature-length
field strength
focal length
from strength to strength
full-length
full-strength
in strength
knee-length
length
overlength
shoulder-length
strength
tensile strength
ultimate strength
wavelength

Synonyms and antonyms of at length in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AT LENGTH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «at length» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of at length

Translation of «at length» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AT LENGTH

Find out the translation of at length to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of at length from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «at length» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

在长
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en longitud
570 millions of speakers

English

at length
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लंबाई में
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

على طول
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

в длину
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

longamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দৈর্ঘ্য এ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

à la longueur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

panjang lebar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schließlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

長々と
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

길이 에
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing dawa
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tại chiều dài
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீளம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विस्ताराने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uzunluğunda
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

a lungo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

na długości
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

в довжину
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pe larg
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στο μήκος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

breedvoerig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

på längden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

på lengden
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of at length

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AT LENGTH»

The term «at length» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.442 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AT LENGTH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «at length» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «at length» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about at length

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10 QUOTES WITH «AT LENGTH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word at length.
1
Adrian Belew
I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.
2
Cyrano de Bergerac
I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.
3
Julia Margaret Cameron
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
4
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.
5
Thomas Carlyle
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
6
William Cartwright
Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!
7
Nicolaus Copernicus
So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
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Jeff Merkley
When you use the word 'filibuster,' most of us in America - and I count myself among them - envision it as the ability to hold the floor on rare occasions to speak at length and make your point emphatically and even delay progress by taking hours.
10
Marsha Norman
If someone wants to say 'I love you' in a straight play, they say it, and then it's the other person's turn to talk. But in a song, you can sing about it for another three minutes. The musical form has that unique opportunity to express at length what joy really feels like.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AT LENGTH»

Discover the use of at length in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to at length and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Microfinance Revolution: Lessons from Indonesia
This book focusses on three key aspects of the phenomenon: 1) the shift from government- and donor-subsidized credit delivery systems to self-sufficient, sustainable microfinance institutions; 2) the results on the ground, on the way in ...
Marguerite S. Robinson, 2002
2
An Encyclopædia of Plants: Comprising the Specific ...
15401 Crust tartareous contiguous even at length somewhat tessellated and whitish, Apothecia sessile and elevated plane black with a grey bloom and a black smooth border & Crust of a regular figure contiguous whitish csesious, Apothecia ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1841
3
Near-Capacity Variable-Length Coding: Regular and ...
... lengths, i.e. the histogram of the VLC codewords' lengths. Step 2: Increase the number of required codewords at length lby one, and decrease the number of required codewords at the maximum codeword length LmaX by one, yielding ...
Lajos L. Hanzo, Robert G. Maunder, Jin Wang, 2011
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Percolation Theory for Flow in Porous Media
Even for p = pc, if a percolation system is viewed at length scales less than χ it appears fractal. Only at length scales greater than χ does the geometry become Euclidean [30]. Another physical meaning of a divergent correlation length is that at ...
Allen Hunt, Robert Ewing, 2009
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A Flora of North America: Containing Abridged Descriptions ...
Seeds large. Embryo nearly straight, radicle very short. — White Maple. Silver- leaved Maple. Soft Maple. 10. A. rubrum (Linn.) : leaves cordate (rarely truncate or rounded at the base), whitish and at length mostly glabrous beneath, 3-5- lobed, ...
John Torrey, Asa Gray, 1838
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Lexicon Medicum: Or, Medical Dictionary ...
The Incipient symptoms usually vary with the cause of the disease . but when it arises from tubercles, it is usually thus marked : it begins with a short dry cough, that at length becomes habitual, but from which nothing is spit up for some time, ...
Robert Hooper, 1829
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The Individual Subject and Scientific Psychology
So, at length 1, the subsequence -A-B- is extracted from the sequence in the beginning, followed by -B-C-, -C-D-, and so forth. Similarly, length-2 subsequences that are extracted from the beginning include (a) -A-B-C-,(b) - B-C-D-, and (c) ...
Jaan Valsiner, 1986
8
Works in Baudry's Edition: Corse de Leon or the Brigand
“-At length! at length! Bernard,” said the voice of the young lady - and the heart of Bernardde Bohan echoed the words. “ At length! at length !” as he pressed her hand in his. “ At length! at length! Bernard,” she said, “ you have come back to me .
George Payne Rainsford James, 1841
9
Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian nights' entertainments
The bark was, in consequence, not only driven out of its course, hut was so violently tossed about by the fury of the tempest that all the masts at length gave way. The ship was now wholly at the mercy of the elements ; it struck upon a rock, and ...
Henry William Dulcken, Edward Dalziel, George Dalziel, 1868
10
The Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life
8.1.3 Length at Birth and Height Gain During the First Year of Life Many studies about seasonal differences in height by month of birth look at height gain during the first years of life or at length at birth. For example, Xu et al. (200 1) found that,  ...
Gabriele Doblhammer, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AT LENGTH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term at length is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Studio Museum Grows in Harlem
... and Mark Bradford, and birthed the term Post-black, coined by Ms. Golden and described at length in the show's accompanying catalogue. «New York Observer, Jul 15»
2
Watch John Oliver Cover 15 Topics in the Span of One Minute
... topic each week and explore it at length – arguably in greater detail than anyone needs – objectively, for a longer period than anyone wants.”. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
GOPers run from Trump on immigration stance
But on Saturday, Bush talked at length about his presidential rival after a week of continued pressure on Republicans -- including by other ... «CNN, Jul 15»
4
F1: Silverstone lifts gloom if only for a day
Only two days earlier, his fellow team principals had discussed at length the negativity in the sport -- with a finger of blame pointed at the media ... «GMA News, Jul 15»
5
Fleming: Independence Day justice on the frontier
At length one of them pulled a paper balloon around his body as if it were a petticoat, offending some sensibilities beyond endurance, so the ... «The Coloradoan, Jul 15»
6
Cleric said to be behind Tunisian beach massacre is living on …
He is cited at length in a 2013 report by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague, and is described as one of its "key ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
Halt and Catch Fire Recap: Baby Mine
Though we haven't spoken about it at length, Kerry Bishé's performance as Donna this season has been absolutely spectacular and deserving ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
8
These women are secretly using Pinterest to plan weddings with …
Amanda says she and her boyfriend have discussed their future wedding plans at length, and that Pinterest has been able to help keep her ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
9
Greg Peck: heavy-duty fireworks in my Janesville neighborhood
Because these fireworks went on at length, I'm guessing no one called police. I was ready to make that call several times, but my wife, Cheryl, ... «Gazettextra, Jul 15»
10
Two Current Fronts of the American Health Care Wars: Hepatitis C …
... C for New York magazine called "C Sick" on what was then being called "the stealth epidemic," for which I interviewed Dr. Dieterich at length. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

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