(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.
Recollective
Definition:
(a.) Having the power of recollecting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analytic therapy aims at converting transference as repetition of behaviour into recollection.
(2) Few of us will have reliable memories from before three or four years of age, and recollections from before that time need to be treated with scepticism.
(3) Back to article (4) Here I asked him about Barry White, a Desert Island Disc choice of his in 1978, which he had no recollection of.
(4) The television commercial, merely demanding a passive involvement of the participants, was less well remembered, and the magazine insert had the lowest recollection.
(5) Eckert said Mersiades, who is not named but is easy to identify from the summary report, provided “some useful information” but claimed “the evidence did not support its specific recollections and allegations” and “further undermined its own reliability” by speaking to the media.
(6) My recollections of the one execution I attended amount to memories of a ghastly, surrealistic encounter with justice.
(7) 50 yrs ago today, we set out to march from Selma to Montgomery to dramatize to the nation that people of color were denied the right to vote,” he wrote, before posting a series of photos and recollections from the day.
(8) Heaton’s recollections are heavy on understatement.
(9) Some speculations about the inner life of autistic children are advanced on the basis of his recollections.
(10) Compromise recollections, though seemingly more persuasive, are both rare and interpretable without postulating blend representations.
(11) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.
(12) During his evidence, Clark will also challenge the recollection of Rob Whiteman, the agency's chief executive, who claimed that Clark had admitted to him that on "a number of occasions this year he authorised his staff to go further than ministerial instruction".
(13) David Henry, then head of investor relations, was “stunned” at the family’s concern about climate change, according to Goodwin’s recollection of events.
(14) A spokesman for Crosby said he had "absolutely no recollection" of using the phrase "fucking Muslims" and Johnson's office also said the London mayor had no recollection of this conversation.
(15) • With the funeral preparations now advanced, notables continue to share recollections of the baroness.
(16) This effect was observed with college students and amnesic patients, suggesting that word completion performance is mediated by implicit memory for new associations that is independent of explicit recollection.
(17) Amnesics' difficulty in recollecting events (and partially learned facts) from before the onset of their disease (retrograde amnesia) is explicable in terms of interference between current events and prior events in similar contexts in patients who are unduly controlled by their current context.
(18) Despite recognition that estimation of gestational age (GA) based on maternal recollection of the last normal menstrual period (LNMP) is fraught with error, it is not generally appreciated that the magnitude and direction of this error vary as a function of the LNMP estimate.
(19) This indicates that the motor zones of the cortex, including the frontal adversive fields, are intention zones, and the sensory zones reproduction, expectation, and recollection zones.
(20) With traditional techniques of quality improvement, the process was assessed, data were collected and statistically analyzed, changes were introduced, and data were recollected and analyzed.