Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

AS BROAD AS LONG

Definition: AS BROAD AS LONG

AS BROAD AS LONG

1. Having the length equal to the breadth; hence, the same one way as another; coming to the same result by different ways or processes. It is as broad as long, whether they rise to others, or bring others down to them. --L'Estrange.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: AS BROAD AS LONG

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Equality

Equivalent, tantamount; indistinguishable; quits; homologous; synonymous; resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less.; much the same as, the same thing as, as good as; all one, all the same; equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced; equalized; Verb: drawn; half and half; isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical; isobath, isobathic.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Modern Translation: AS BROAD AS LONG

Language Translations for "AS BROAD AS LONG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

coliauyr. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asay oadbray asay onglay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: AS BROAD AS LONG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-d-g-l-n-o-o-r-s-s"

-4 letters: algarobas, grassland, landgrabs, saladangs, sarabands.

-5 letters: algaroba, bandoras, bolognas, bradoons, dongolas, dragoons, gadroons, garlands, goldarns, gondolas, granolas, landgrab, lardoons, largando, lasagnas, saladang, sandbags, sandbars, saraband, sardanas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.