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• long measure go
  a measure of length
  
• astronomy unit go
  a linear unit used for astronomical distances
  
• metric linear unit go
  a linear unit of distance in metric terms
  
• nautical linear unit go
  a linear unit of distance used in navigation
  
• inch, in go
  a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
  
• foot, ft go
  a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
  
• footer go
  (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet
  
• pace, yard go
  a unit of length equal to 3 feet
  
• yarder go
  (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in yards
  
• rod, perch, pole go
  a linear measure of 16.5 feet
  
• furlong go
  a unit of length equal to 220 yards
  
• mi, mile, statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile go
  a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet
  
• miler go
  (used only in combinations) the length of something in miles
  
• half mile, 880 yards go
  a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile
  
• quarter mile, 440 yards go
  a unit of length equal to a quarter of 1 mile
  
• league go
  an obsolete unit of distance of variable length (usually 3 miles)
  
• ligne go
  a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons
  
• nail go
  a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
  
• archine go
  a Russian unit of length (71 cm)
  
• kos, coss go
  (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities
  
• vara go
  a Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities
  
• verst go
  a Russian unit of length (1.067 km)
  
• cable, cable length, cable's length go
  a nautical unit of depth
  
• chain go
  a unit of length
  
• cubit go
  an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm
  
• finger, digit, fingerbreadth, finger's breadth go
  the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
  
• fistmele go
  about seven inches
  
• body length go
  the length of your body
  
• handbreadth, handsbreadth go
  any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand
  
• head go
  the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
  
• lea go
  a unit of length of thread or yarn
  
• li go
  Chinese distance measure
  
• link go
  a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
  
• mesh go
  the number of openings per linear inch of a screen
  
• mil go
  a unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch
  
• mile, mil, Swedish mile go
  a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km
  
• mile, Roman mile go
  an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards
  
• Roman pace go
  an ancient Roman unit of length (4.85 English feet) measured as the distance from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when next it touches the ground
  
• geometric pace go
  a modern version of the Roman pace now taken to be 5 feet
  
• military pace go
  the length of a single step in marching (taken to be 30 inches for quick time or 36 inches for double time)
  
• palm go
  a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand
  
• span go
  a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
  
• survey mile go
  a U.S. unit of measure equal to 1609.347 meters
  
• fathom, fthm go
  a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth
  
• point go
  a linear unit used to measure the size of type
  
• em, pica em, pica go
  a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing
  
• nut, en go
  half the width of an em
  
• cicero go
  a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em