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“long”
long (adjective); longer, longest
1. Extending a relatively great distance: Joe and Josephine went the long way home after visiting their friends.
2. Of a relatively great duration: Shirley's daughter spent a long time at her friend's birthday party.
2. Of a relatively great duration: Shirley's daughter spent a long time at her friend's birthday party.
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long-, longi-
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long (noun); longs; longed; longing
To have an earnest, heartfelt desire, especially for something beyond one's reach.
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long-, longi-
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“long”
(Greek: spine, bristle; long, flowing hair])
(Greek: long; used in extended senses as, "abnormally long"; narrow)
(Latin: long)
(Greek: large, great; long [in extent or duration]; enlarged, or elongated, long [in length]; abnormally large)
(Latin: to long eagerly for; to wish, to desire; to have a keen interest in something; an intense eagerness to do something)
(Latin: to be lenient [toward], accede, take pleasure [in]; originally, "to be kind, kindness; to be long-suffering, to be patient")
(narcoleptics struggle against sleepiness all day long)
(art of taking a long time to start to begin to get ready to commence)
(residential areas that have been connected to each other during rush hours by long traffic jams)
(Latin: to chew over again, to chew the cud; to muse or to meditate; that is, to think about something in a deep and serious or dreamy and abstracted way or to think about something carefully, calmly, seriously, and for a long time)
(Greek: coil; [long flowing] hair; hence, "hair, bristle"; spirochetes, coil-shaped microorganisms)
(Latin vetus: old, aged, old age; many years, a long time; elder, elderly; senior)
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“long”
Dilate is someone who lives for a long time.
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paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia
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long litany
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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long-chronic illness
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Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies
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(obscure verbal usages that challenge your comprehension as to what they mean)
(obscure verbal usages that challenge our comprehension as to what they mean)
(Sesquipedalia Verba or Sesquipedalians are references to the use of excessively long words)
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“long”
Protest transforms long quiescent Syrian city
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knitted into the city's fabric:
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"Dissent and defiance in Homa, its residents say, have become knitted into the city's fabric, signaling to the government that however ferocious the repression, it will face a resilient opposition for the foreseeable future."
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Words Used in Headlines and Subheadlines as Seen in a Variety of Publications
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Very Long Baseline Interferometry, VLBI
The technique of linking together several radio telescopes spaced by hundreds and even thousands of miles to achieve very high resolution observations of distant objects; such as, quasars.
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Astronomy and related astronomical terms
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