I am completing a final assignment for a statistics course, and need a single word to describe age, height, weight and BMI (body mass index). The best I've been able to come up with so far are physical characteristics which isn't actually a good explanation for those terms, characteristics by itself, and traits , neither of which fit very well ...

Many non-American readers may not understand that *five-one" means "five feet & one inch"; British readers might, but even in Britain a person's height is now given in metres. – TrevorD Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 14:13

Height and Weight — How to write them when abbreviations are not used. He was a 6-foot 5-inch man. (Not: 6-foot-5-inch man, with three hyphens.) She gave birth to a 7-pound 11-ounce baby. (Not: 7-pound-11-ounce baby, with three hyphens.) And, it should be, I believe: He is 6 feet 5 inches tall. (Not: 6 feet, 5 inches tall.)

2015年10月24日 · Five-foot six and a half is the only well-understood way to express this height for Americans, so really just about anything else is equally good (bad), so long as you specify the units— thus, my vote would go to 1–3, 5, and 8.

The answer to "how tall are you?" isn't really a noun, and it isn't a verb. It's closest 'basic' linguistic element is in fact an adjective (describing your height). People sense this, so over the decades they've simply shown an increasing tendency to apply the same 'singularisation' rule they've always been used to in related contexts.

2012年1月31日 · In describing the box or cube, you would use height, length, breadth, width and depth, with breadth, width and depth being interchangeable. I would use a diagram or key to specify what you mean in your particular case. x = breadth; y = height; z = depth

dimensions Use figures and spell out inches, feet, yards, etc., to indicate depth, height, length, and width. Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns. Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns. [Relevant examples:] the 5-foot-6-inch man, the 9-by-12 rug

2015年4月19日 · Height used to be written with an ie, and weight with an i. (And in Middle Dutch it was oo and i, and in German it's ö and i...) So yes, it evolved that way. The spelling, that is, not the pronunciation. The pronunciation has always been different, and high and weigh are pronounced differently as well, so nothing special here. More to the ...

2010年8月17日 · Other adjectives usually go before words of colour, origin, material and purpose. It is impossible to give exact rules, but adjectives of size, length and height often come first. The round glass table (NOT the glass round table) A big, modern brick house (NOT a modern, big brick house) Long, flexible steel poles; A tall, ancient oak-tree

2016年12月15日 · That’s because that way the video conveniently takes a picture of the bandits with their height clearly documented. That said, the standard police lineup technique doesn’t work very well , and some jurisdictions have switched to sounder methods.