four foot
Forty-eight inches tall
Four foot describes something measuring four feet in length, height, or width: a four-foot fence, four-foot waves.
The hyphenated form functions as a compound adjective before nouns.
Without the hyphen, four feet works as a measurement after verbs: The snow was four feet deep.
- meterstickOne-hundred-centimeter measuring tool
- railway lineTrain transportation route
- rulerOne who governs
- dimensionMeasurable extent or scope
- yardstickThirty-six-inch ruler
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