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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Zoll

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /tsɔl/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Inch/ɪntʃ/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2150 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Der Bildschirm hat eine Diagonale von 15 Zoll."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A unit of linear measure equal to one-twelfth of a foot (2.54 centimeters).

    "The screen of the new tablet measures ten inches diagonally."
As verb
  1. 1

    To move very slowly and carefully in a specified direction.

    "The car began to inch forward through the heavy traffic."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'ynce', which comes from the Latin 'uncia', meaning 'one-twelfth part' (of a foot or pound). Historically used to measure small lengths, it evolved into a verb meaning to move very slowly or in small increments.

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