What's the difference between overlong and too?

Overlong


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Too long.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our investigations indicate that the diffuse and focal forms of persistent hepatitis can remain unchanged overlong periods and the same histological findings over a number of years.
  • (2) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
  • (3) The current university-only route is overlong, expensive and inefficient and denies some of the best potential nurses a place in this most vital profession, drawing instead only on graduates, some of whom clearly have the wrong training and mindset.
  • (4) Cher's right about Burlesque – an overlong potboiler that also starred Christina Aguilera, it wasn't even camp enough to be fun.
  • (5) Soccer, that international sport, has been attempted and is making some inroads, but it is classed, in the main, along with overlong loaves of bread and soft cheese in the general American Consciousness.
  • (6) The mechanism of concealed conduction due to overlong propagation within the reentry loop is discussed.
  • (7) What ensued was an overlong and dysfunctional standoff between the football program and student affairs officials with the president positioned somewhere between the two sides,” the report said.
  • (8) The Duke of Edinburgh, an old Naval hand, appeared to revert to some salty language during an overlong photocall at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
  • (9) In addition to offering specialist services, such as anaesthesiological therapy, and such services as may be in keeping with the local situation, such departments should be engaged in research, and towards the provision of preoperative anaesthesiological management prior to admission, on behalf of patients undergoing surgery of choice, so as to cut down the overlong period of preoperative stay.
  • (10) We would refuse point blank to cut the script down to its proper length, so we'd end up with shows that were overlong.

Too


Definition:

  • (adv.) Over; more than enough; -- noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much.
  • (adv.) Likewise; also; in addition.

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