(superl.) Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.
(superl.) Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.
(superl.) Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.
(superl.) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
(superl.) Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.
(superl.) Far-reaching; extensive.
(superl.) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 22, 30.
(n.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
(n.) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
(n.) The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.
(adv.) To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.
(adv.) To a great extent in time; during a long time.
(adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.
(adv.) Through the whole extent or duration.
(adv.) Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?
(prep.) By means of; by the fault of; because of.
(a.) To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for.
(a.) To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(2) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(3) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(4) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(5) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(6) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(7) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(8) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(9) Arthrotomy with continuous irrigation appears to be more effective in decreasing long-term residual effects than arthrotomy alone.
(10) A significant correlation was found between the amplitude ratio of the R2 and the sensitivity ratio of the rapid off-response at short and long wavelengths.
(11) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(12) A novel prostaglandin E2 analogue, CL 115347, can be administered transdermally on a long-term basis.
(13) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(14) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(15) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
(16) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(17) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(18) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
(19) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(20) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
Longsighted
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The victim was named yesterday as Tyrone Donovan Gilbert, of Longsight, Manchester, who was drinking with more than 100 other friends of Ucal Chin, also 23, killed in a drive-by shooting last month.
(2) July 30, 1999 Patrick Logan shot by hooded intruder at his home in Withington July 31, 1999 Martin Bennett, 25, shot in Moss Side August 3, 1999 Dorrie McKie , 20, shot in Moss Side August 15, 1999 Anthony Cook, 24, shot after chase through Moss Side November 1, 1999 Courier Judah Dewar, 35, killed in Longsight December 27, 1999 Simon Brown, 27, shot in Cheetham Hill January 5, 2000 Roger Ormsby, 35, shot in Whalley Range January 12, 2000 Gabriel Egharevba, 17, shot from his bike in Longsight
(3) That, and perhaps also to convince a few other British kids, from Longsight and elsewhere, that there is life beyond the Premier League.
(4) Holly Sprake-Hill, 31, mother, Manchester My four-year-old daughter Willow goes to a Sure Start nursery in Longsight, down the road from where I live in Manchester.
(5) The shooting echoed round Coverdale Crescent in Longsight, bringing out neighbours including a 28-year-old man who ran to help the dying youth.
(6) In recent years, the focus has predominantly been south of the city centre, in Longsight and Moss Side, where high unemployment and the arrival of crack cocaine prompted a violent war on the streets.
(7) The new wave of killings has spread south from Moss Side into the neighbouring areas of Whalley Range and Longsight, with separate incidents involving rival gangs in Cheetham Hill on the Manchester-Salford border.
(8) The breakthrough came three years later following the shooting of Tyrone Gilbert at the funeral of Ucal Chin, a young father with friends in the Longsight crew.
(9) Lyes said she was taken to Longsight police station and put in a cell before being released without charge when the match was over.
(10) 1.02am BST Tales from the north of England Richard O'Hagan emails: "I began my career in Longsight, Manchester, two years before Menelik Watson was born and about a decade after I fell in love with the NFL.
(11) The 24-year-old offensive tackle from Longsight, Manchester, was overlooked in Thursday's first round of the 2013 NFL Draft , but when the process resumed on Friday he did not have to wait much longer.
(12) Raised in relative poverty near Longsight's Anson estate, Watson has overcome incredible hurdles to reach this point .
(13) His was not an easy childhood – raised in relative poverty near Longsight's Anson estate.
(14) The year's shootings included the raking of a pub and a family house in Longsight with semi-automatic fire.
(15) Posters appealing for information about the two latest killings were distributed yesterday in Whalley Range and Longsight and police are trying to build up a picture of gangland suspects.
(16) When she began her work, she said the gangs were involved in violence within their own community in Moss Side and Longsight.