(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.
Ululation
Definition:
(n.) A howling, as of a dog or wolf; a wailing.
Example Sentences:
(1) ululates one of the series' many perturbed adolescent hunks.
(2) There was a festive atmosphere at polling stations on Monday, with some voters dancing to pro-military songs and ululating after casting their ballot.
(3) Zuma cast his vote in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal province, where a scandal over the spending of taxpayer millions on security upgrades at his homestead did not prevent crowds greeting him enthusiastically and ululating.
(4) Whether aged 14 or 40, a particular dashboard speed can never be reached without an instinctive ululation, "88 miiiles per houuuur"… When Secret Cinema , an organisation that arranges ambitious, mixed-media screenings of films, announced it was to show Back to the Future over 30 nights this summer, it sold more than 65,000 tickets.
(5) When Riek Machar, the former rebel leader and vice-president of South Sudan, arrived at Juba airport late last month he was greeted by ululations and the release of white doves, the symbol of peace.
(6) They chant, sing and ululate their praise – usually segregated from male supporters.
(7) Now 77, she was feted at the film premiere, having pride of place beside Elba before taking the stage to applause and ululations.
(8) By then, white protesters had left, leaving only hundreds of black people who screamed, cat-called and ululated in support.
(9) Standing through the sunroof of a car, Besigye and his wife, Winnie, waved to several thousand cheering and ululating supporters amid a heavy security presence along the road from Entebbe airport to Kampala.
(10) Between bursts, I could hear the women ululating from the gravesite, greeting the corpse, shouting again that God is great.
(11) Francis, who moves on to Uganda on Friday, began his first full day in the Kenyan capital by meeting Muslim and other religious leaders before saying an open-air Mass for tens of thousands of rain-drenched people who sang, danced and ululated as he arrived in an open popemobile.
(12) Groups of women dropped to the ground ululating and sobbing.
(13) In the huge crowd, where boys held up paper flags and women ululated, emotions were barely contained.
(14) Africans will ululate, say their brother has come and celebrate him as an icon and hero, but the package he should provide will not come easily in the economic crisis.
(15) Against a backdrop of the shattered facade and draped in a flowing headscarf of green and gold, Aisha pumped her fists at the crowd as they roared and ululated their approval.
(16) Before I inflict my various observations and prejudices on you this evening (yes, we will be Team Conchita all the way, I’m terribly sorry, in this time-delayed global celebration of ululation, impartiality really is for wimps) I thought I’d come to terms with why I’m a Eurovision tragic.
(17) Greeted by ululations, she told the hundreds of guests: "I'm just as excited as all of you are.