- Distance - Duration - End to end - Extent; duration - It can be quite long in time or distance - It goes from one extreme to the other - Linear magnitude
- Draw out - Elongate - Make longer - Outside labourers strengthen and stretch - Stretch - To extent in length; to make longer in extent or
duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; --
sometimes followed by out. - To become longer.
- A formal agreement to cut down size - Become smaller or narrower - Binding agreement - formal legal promise - To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass;
to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. - To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. - To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a
habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
- ... bets are off - ... in a day’s work - ... in good time - ... or nothing - ... roads lead to Rome - Braille got out brie for everyone - Central London has the lot