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Перевод: cubit

[существительное]
локтевая кость; локоть

Тезаурус:

1. The common unit measured 0.445 m and the longer cubit about 0.518 m.
2. Which one of us, by taking thought, can add a cubit to their stature, far less restore the lost cubits to the stature of one who has sunk so low.
3. Now the cubit (traditionally the length of a man's forearm from the elbow to clenched fist) is the principal unit of linear measurement in the Bible , and was used too in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
4. Ezekiel states that the unit for his visionary temple was "the long cubit which was one cubit and a hand's breadth," and moreover that the overall dimensions of the temple were 100 cubits square.
5. An 18-inch cubit gives the measurement as 450 x 76 x 45 feet or 137 x 23 x 14 metres.
6. The church had been carefully laid out and constructed, but the basic unit of measurement had eluded us until December 1982, when Michael Vickers of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, a former member of the excavation-team, suggested that it might be the cubit, and, specifically, the long cubit.
7. There were, moreover, two kinds of unit, the standard measure of six handbreadths and the longer (or royal) cubit of seven.