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- Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
- (history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
- Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
- belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- very old
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adj
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verb
- live longer than
- continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
- support oneself
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive) To live past (a life-threatening event)
- (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
- (intransitive) To be a victim of nonfatal but substantial harm and nonetheless to display the strength to heal; especially, after a crime or an illness, especially sexual or physical abuse or assault, cancer, or a natural disaster.
- (transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).
- (intransitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
- (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
adj
- persisting for a long time
- habitual
- being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
- (informal) Extremely serious.
- (slang) Very bad, awful.
- Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
- (slang) Good, great; "wicked".
- (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal.
- Inveterate or habitual.
- Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
noun
- A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
- (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.
adj
- Continuing over a long period of time.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
- (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
- of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
- characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
- characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
noun
adj
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
- That is no longer in existence.
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related to others.
- (UK) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- Familiar.
- (informal, of a person or pet) Indicating affection and familiarity.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- Former, previous.
- skilled through long experience
- of long duration; not new
- excellent
- (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
- just preceding something else in time or order
- belonging to some prior time
- (used for emphasis) very familiar
noun
- (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
- (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
- (Australia, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
- (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
- past times
adj
- Long.
- (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
- More remote of two.
- Distant; remote in space.
- Remote in time.
- Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
- Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
- located at a great distance in time or space or degree
- beyond a norm in opinion or actions
- being of a considerable distance or length
- being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle
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verb
noun
- a specific practice of long standing
- money collected under a tariff
- accepted or habitual practice
- habitual patronage
- Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.
- Traditional beliefs or rituals.
- (dated outside UK) Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.
- (collectively) The habitual patrons (i.e. customers) of a business; business support.
- A custom (made-to-order) piece of art, etc.
- (law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. Compare prescription.
adj
- made according to the specifications of an individual
- Own, personal, not standard or premade.
- (especially agriculture) Done on a for-hire basis, as contrasted with being done only for oneself.
- Made or done in a way adjusted to fit the needs of a particular person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique.
noun
- a specific practice of long standing
- an inherited pattern of thought or action
- A commonly held system.
- (textual criticism) The entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work.
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
- An established or distinctive style or method:
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adj
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- (collectible card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.
- (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an n×n matrix a_ij,, the sum over all permutations π, of ∏ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_iπ(i).
- A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
- a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals
adj
- Continuing for a long period; eternal.
- Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
- Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.
- (philosophy) Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
- Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
- Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
- Of a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).
- Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- continuing forever or indefinitely
noun
- (countable, botany) Chiefly with a descriptive word: short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)
- Synonym of lasting (“(uncountable) a durable, plain, woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes; (countable) a quantity of such fabric”).
- any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
adv
- A long time (see usage notes).
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
adj
- Having great duration.
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
adj
- Lasting longer; protracted.
- (typography, of a typeface) Wider than usual.
- Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
- Longer in length or extension; elongated.
- Having a large scope or range; extensive.
- fully extended or stretched forth
- large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
- relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
- beyond the literal or primary sense
- drawn out or made longer spatially
verb
noun
- a long time
- (countable, rare) The moon tinted towards blue as it appears in the sky, caused by dust or smoke in the atmosphere.
- (countable, idiomatic, by extension) A long time.
- The second of two full moons that occur in the same calendar month (a definition created by mistake in the 20th century).
- (uncountable) A bright blue, sweet-flavored ice cream that is popular in the Midwestern U.S. and is a component of Superman ice cream.
- The third full moon in a season that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.
noun
- An age; a long period of time.
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
- (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
- (usually plural) A hertz; cycle per second.
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- (specifically and now usually) A bicycle.
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a periodically repeated sequence of events
- the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)
- a series of poems or songs on the same theme
- a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
verb
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
- cause to go through a recurring sequence
- ride a motorcycle
- ride a bicycle
- recur in repeating sequences
- pass through a cycle
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noun
- a specific practice of long standing
- money collected under a tariff
- accepted or habitual practice
- habitual patronage
- Frequent repetition of the same behavior; way of behavior common to many; ordinary manner; habitual practice; method of doing, living or behaving.
- Traditional beliefs or rituals.
- (dated outside UK) Habitual buying of goods from one same vendor.
- (collectively) The habitual patrons (i.e. customers) of a business; business support.
- A custom (made-to-order) piece of art, etc.
- (law) Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent. Compare prescription.
adj
- made according to the specifications of an individual
- Own, personal, not standard or premade.
- (especially agriculture) Done on a for-hire basis, as contrasted with being done only for oneself.
- Made or done in a way adjusted to fit the needs of a particular person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique.
noun
- a specific practice of long standing
- an inherited pattern of thought or action
- A commonly held system.
- (textual criticism) The entirety of a text's transmission; all the versions of a work.
- The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
- A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
- An established or distinctive style or method:
noun
- a long time
- (countable, rare) The moon tinted towards blue as it appears in the sky, caused by dust or smoke in the atmosphere.
- (countable, idiomatic, by extension) A long time.
- The second of two full moons that occur in the same calendar month (a definition created by mistake in the 20th century).
- (uncountable) A bright blue, sweet-flavored ice cream that is popular in the Midwestern U.S. and is a component of Superman ice cream.
- The third full moon in a season that contains four rather than the usual three full moons.
noun
- An age; a long period of time.
- An interval of space or time in which one set of events or phenomena is completed.
- A pedal-powered vehicle, such as a unicycle, bicycle, or tricycle, or a motorized vehicle that has either two or three wheels.
- A process that returns to its beginning and then repeats itself in the same sequence.
- A complete rotation of anything.
- A series of poems, songs or other works of art, typically longer than a trilogy.
- (topology, algebraic topology) A chain whose boundary is zero.
- (graph theory) A closed walk or path, with or without repeated vertices allowed.
- A programme on a washing machine, dishwasher, or other such device.
- (botany) One entire round in a circle or a spire.
- (weaponry) A discharge of a taser.
- (aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.
- (usually plural) A hertz; cycle per second.
- An orderly list for a given time; a calendar.
- (sports) A scheduled period of time of weeks or months wherein a performance-enhancing substance or, by extension, supplement is applied, to be followed by another one where it is not or the dosage is lower.
- (baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.
- The members of the sequence formed by such a process.
- An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.
- (specifically and now usually) A bicycle.
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
- a periodically repeated sequence of events
- the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second (named for Heinrich Rudolph Hertz)
- a series of poems or songs on the same theme
- a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
verb
- (electronics) To turn power off and back on
- To ride a bicycle or other cycle.
- To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.
- (ice hockey) To maintain a team's possession of the puck in the offensive zone by handling and passing the puck in a loop from the boards near the goal up the side boards and passing to back to the boards near the goal
- cause to go through a recurring sequence
- ride a motorcycle
- ride a bicycle
- recur in repeating sequences
- pass through a cycle
noun
verb
- live longer than
- continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
- support oneself
- continue to live and avoid dying
- (transitive) To live past (a life-threatening event)
- (intransitive) Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
- (intransitive) To be a victim of nonfatal but substantial harm and nonetheless to display the strength to heal; especially, after a crime or an illness, especially sexual or physical abuse or assault, cancer, or a natural disaster.
- (transitive) To live longer than (someone); to outlive (someone or something); to outlast (something).
- (intransitive, sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
- (intransitive) Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
adv
- A long time (see usage notes).
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
adj
- Having great duration.
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Having lasted from a remote period; having been of long duration; of great age, very old.
- (history) Relating to antiquity as a primarily European historical period; the time before the Middle Ages.
- Existent or occurring in time long past, usually in remote ages; belonging to or associated with antiquity; old, as opposed to modern.
- belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- very old
noun
adj
noun
adj
- persisting for a long time
- habitual
- being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
- (informal) Extremely serious.
- (slang) Very bad, awful.
- Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.
- (slang) Good, great; "wicked".
- (medicine) Prolonged or slow to heal.
- Inveterate or habitual.
- Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.
noun
- A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
- (slang) Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- (medicine) A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.
adj
- Continuing over a long period of time.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a religious order.
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
- (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
- of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
- characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
- characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
noun
adj
- Of a living being, having lived for most of the expected years.
- Of a perishable item, having existed for most of, or more than, its shelf life.
- That is no longer in existence.
- Of a species or language, belonging to a lineage that is distantly related to others.
- (UK) Being a graduate or alumnus of a school, especially a public school.
- Having been used and thus no longer new or unused.
- Familiar.
- (informal, of a person or pet) Indicating affection and familiarity.
- Tiresome after prolonged repetition.
- Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
- A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive, and combined with another adjective.
- Said of subdued colors, particularly reds, pinks and oranges, as if they had faded over time.
- Designed for a mature audience; unsuitable for children below a certain age.
- Obsolete; out-of-date.
- Having existed or lived for the specified time.
- Former, previous.
- skilled through long experience
- of long duration; not new
- excellent
- (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
- just preceding something else in time or order
- belonging to some prior time
- (used for emphasis) very familiar
noun
- (slang, most often plural) One's parents.
- (slang) A person older than oneself, especially an adult in relation to a teenager.
- (Australia, uncountable) A typically dark-coloured lager brewed by the traditional top-fermentation method.
- (with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
- past times
adj
- Long.
- (programming, not comparable) Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
- More remote of two.
- Distant; remote in space.
- Remote in time.
- Extreme, as a difference in nature or quality.
- Extreme, as measured from some central or neutral position.
- located at a great distance in time or space or degree
- beyond a norm in opinion or actions
- being of a considerable distance or length
- being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle
adv
noun
verb
adj
noun
- (collectible card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.
- (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an n×n matrix a_ij,, the sum over all permutations π, of ∏ᵢ₌₁ⁿa_iπ(i).
- A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
- a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals
adj
- Continuing for a long period; eternal.
- Lasting or enduring forever; endless, eternal.
- Chiefly of a deity or other supernatural being: having always existed and will continue to exist forever; eternal.
- (philosophy) Synonym of sempiternal (“having infinite temporal duration, rather than outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether”).
- Having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried.
- Of clothing or fabric: lasting a long time; very durable or hard-wearing.
- Of a plant or plant part: synonym of perennial (“active throughout the year, or having a life cycle of more than two growing seasons”).
- Happening all the time, especially to a tiresome extent; constant, incessant, unending.
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- continuing forever or indefinitely
noun
- (countable, botany) Chiefly with a descriptive word: short for everlasting flower (“any of several plants, chiefly of the family Asteraceae (principally the tribe Gnaphalieae), having flowers that retain their colour and form when dried; also, a flower of such a plant”)
- Synonym of lasting (“(uncountable) a durable, plain, woven fabric formerly used for making clothes and for the uppers of women's shoes; (countable) a quantity of such fabric”).
- any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
adj
- Lasting longer; protracted.
- (typography, of a typeface) Wider than usual.
- Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
- Longer in length or extension; elongated.
- Having a large scope or range; extensive.
- fully extended or stretched forth
- large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
- relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
- beyond the literal or primary sense
- drawn out or made longer spatially
verb
adv
- A long time (see usage notes).
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
adj
- Having great duration.
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.