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Moon7296 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

three-by-seven-foot pieces of wood

1. Trapped by the category of doors, we become blind to the three-by-seven-foot pieces of wood that are right in front of us.

Q) What does the underlined part mean?
Is it the width is 3 centimiters and the length is sevel centimiters?
  

Top answer

It is a door measurement: 3 feet wide by 7 feet high.

— Mister Micawber

  • It is a door measurement: 3 feet wide by 7 feet high.
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It is a door measurement: 3 feet wide by 7 feet high.
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Mister MicawberIt is a door measurement: 3 feet wide by 7 feet high.
What is "by" in your answer?
Can we just say 3 feet and 7 feet high?
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'By' is the standard term for 'x' in measurements such as 10 cm x 12 cm x 2 cm. You cannot say '3 feet and 7 feet high' because '3 feet' is not a height measurement; it is horizontal dimension.
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