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Overview of verb long

      »   The verb long has 1 meanings (first 1 from tagged texts)

• hanker, long, Yearn1.) Hanker, long, yearn -- (desire strongly or persistently)
  
  2.) Ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish -- (have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover")
  
  yearn -- (Desire1.) Desire -- (the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state)
  
  2.) Desire -- (an inclination to want things; "a man of many desires")
  
  desire strongly or persistently)

Overview of adj long
      »   The adj long has 9 meanings (first 3 from tagged texts)

• long -- (Primarily1.) Chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main -- (for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies")
  
  2.) Primarily, in the first place -- (of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter")
  
  primarily temporal sense; Being1.) Being, beingness, existence -- (the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries")
  
  2.) Organism, being -- (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
  
  being or Indicating1.) Bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal -- (be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued")
  
  2.) Indicate, point, show -- (indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents")
  
  indicating a Relatively1.) Relatively, comparatively -- (in a relative manner; by comparison to something else; "the situation is relatively calm now")
  
  relatively great or Greater1.) Greater -- (greater in size or importance or degree; "for the greater good of the community"; "the greater Antilles")
  
  1.) Great -- (relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay")
  
  greater than Average1.) Average, norm -- (a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes")
  
  1.) Average, average out -- (amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40")
  
  average duration or Passage1.) Passage, transition -- (the act of passing from one state or place to the next)
  
  2.) Passage -- (a section of text; particularly a section of medium length)
  
  passage of Time1.) Time, clip -- (an instance or single occasion for some event; "this time he succeeded"; "he called four times"; "he could do ten at a clip")
  
  2.) Time -- (an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities); "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor is his time")
  
  time or a Duration1.) Duration, continuance -- (the period of time during which something continues)
  
  2.) Duration, continuance -- (the property of enduring or continuing in time)
  
  duration as Specified1.) Stipulate, qualify, condition, specify -- (specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments")
  
  2.) Specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate -- (determine the essential quality of)
  
  specified; "a long life"; "a long Boring1.) Drilling, boring -- (the act of drilling)
  
  2.) Boring, drilling, oil production -- (the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum)
  
  boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an Hour1.) Hour, hr, 60 minutes -- (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour")
  
  2.) Hour, time of day -- (clock time; "the hour is getting late")
  
  hour long")

• long -- (Primarily1.) Chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main -- (for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies")
  
  2.) Primarily, in the first place -- (of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter")
  
  primarily spatial sense; of Relatively1.) Relatively, comparatively -- (in a relative manner; by comparison to something else; "the situation is relatively calm now")
  
  relatively great or Greater1.) Greater -- (greater in size or importance or degree; "for the greater good of the community"; "the greater Antilles")
  
  1.) Great -- (relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; "a great juicy steak"; "a great multitude"; "the great auk"; "a great old oak"; "a great ocean liner"; "a great delay")
  
  greater than Average1.) Average, norm -- (a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes")
  
  1.) Average, average out -- (amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40")
  
  average spatial Extension1.) Extension -- (a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt; "they applied for an extension of the loan")
  
  2.) Extension -- (act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need")
  
  extension or Extension1.) Extension -- (a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt; "they applied for an extension of the loan")
  
  2.) Extension -- (act of expanding in scope; making more widely available; "extension of the program to all in need")
  
  extension as Specified1.) Stipulate, qualify, condition, specify -- (specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments")
  
  2.) Specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate -- (determine the essential quality of)
  
  specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "Contained1.) Incorporate, contain, comprise -- (include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's")
  
  2.) Hold, bear, carry, contain -- (contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water")
  
  contained many long words"; "Ten1.) Ten, 10, X, tenner, decade -- (the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system)
  
  1.) Ten, 10, x -- (being one more than nine)
  
  ten miles long")

• long -- (of Relatively1.) Relatively, comparatively -- (in a relative manner; by comparison to something else; "the situation is relatively calm now")
  
  relatively great height; "a Race1.) Race -- (any competition; "the race for the presidency")
  
  2.) Race -- (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings")
  
  race of long Gaunt1.) Bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted -- (very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration")
  
  gaunt men"- Sherwood1.) Sherwood, Robert Emmet Sherwood -- (United States playwright (1896-1955))
  
  Sherwood Anderson; "Looked1.) Look -- (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!")
  
  2.) Look, appear, seem -- (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time")
  
  looked out the long French1.) French -- (the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France)
  
  2.) French, French people -- (the people of France)
  
  French windows")

• retentive, Recollective1.) Retentive, recollective, long, tenacious -- (good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory")
  
  recollective, long, Tenacious1.) Retentive, recollective, long, tenacious -- (good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory")
  
  2.) Dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion")
  
  tenacious -- (Good1.) Good -- (benefit; "for your own good"; "what's the good of worrying?")
  
  2.) Good, goodness -- (moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people")
  
  good at Remembering1.) Memory, remembering -- (the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered; "he can do it from memory"; "he enjoyed remembering his father")
  
  1.) Remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think -- (recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories")
  
  remembering; "a Retentive1.) Retentive, recollective, long, tenacious -- (good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory")
  
  2.) Retentive -- (having the capacity to retain something)
  
  retentive mind"; "Tenacious1.) Retentive, recollective, long, tenacious -- (good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory")
  
  2.) Dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding -- (stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion")
  
  tenacious memory")

• long -- (Holding1.) Retention, keeping, holding -- (the act of retaining something)
  
  2.) Property, belongings, holding, material possession -- (something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property";)
  
  holding securities or Commodities1.) Commodity, trade good, good -- (articles of commerce)
  
  commodities in Expectation1.) Expectation, outlook, prospect -- (belief about (or mental picture of) the future)
  
  2.) Anticipation, expectation -- (wishing with confidence of fulfillment)
  
  expectation of a Rise1.) Rise -- (a growth in strength or number or importance)
  
  2.) Rise, ascent, ascension, ascending -- (the act of changing location in an upward direction)
  
  rise in Prices1.) Price, terms, damage -- (the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?")
  
  2.) Monetary value, price, cost -- (the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection")
  
  prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long Position1.) Position, place -- (the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place")
  
  2.) Military position, position -- (a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons)
  
  position in gold")

• long -- ((of Speech1.) Address, speech -- (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets")
  
  2.) Speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication -- ((language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets")
  
  speech sounds or Syllables1.) Syllable -- (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables")
  
  syllables) of Relatively1.) Relatively, comparatively -- (in a relative manner; by comparison to something else; "the situation is relatively calm now")
  
  relatively long Duration1.) Duration, continuance -- (the period of time during which something continues)
  
  2.) Duration, continuance -- (the property of enduring or continuing in time)
  
  duration; " the English1.) English, English language -- (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)
  
  2.) English, English people -- (the people of England)
  
  English vowel Sounds1.) Sound -- (the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music")
  
  2.) Sound, auditory sensation -- (the subjective sensation of hearing something; "he strained to hear the faint sounds")
  
  sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `Boot1.) Boot -- (footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg)
  
  2.) Boot -- (British term for the luggage compartment in a car)
  
  boot' are long")

• long -- (Involving1.) Involve, affect, regard -- (connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business")
  
  2.) Involve -- (engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!")
  
  involving substantial Risk1.) Hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment -- (a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard")
  
  2.) Risk, peril, danger -- (a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing")
  
  risk; "long odds")

• farseeing, Farsighted1.) Farsighted, presbyopic -- (able to see distant objects clearly)
  
  2.) Farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted -- (planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues")
  
  farsighted, foresighted, Foresightful1.) Farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted -- (planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues")
  
  foresightful, prospicient, long, Longsighted1.) Eagle-eyed, keen-sighted, farseeing, longsighted -- (capable of seeing to a great distance)
  
  2.) Farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted -- (planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues")
  
  longsighted -- (Planning1.) Planning -- (an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action; "the planning was more fun than the trip itself")
  
  2.) Planning -- (the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise)
  
  planning prudently for the Future1.) Future, hereafter, futurity, time to come -- (the time yet to come)
  
  2.) Future, future tense -- (a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future)
  
  future; "large Goals1.) Goal, end -- (the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; "the ends justify the means")
  
  2.) Goal -- (a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play")
  
  goals that Required1.) Necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand -- (require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent")
  
  2.) Ask, require, expect -- (consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons")
  
  required farsighted policies"; "Took1.) Take -- (carry out; "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance")
  
  2.) Take, occupy, use up -- (require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time")
  
  took a long View1.) Position, view, perspective -- (a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view")
  
  2.) View, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama -- (the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views")
  
  view of the Geopolitical1.) Geopolitical -- (of or relating to geopolitics)
  
  geopolitical issues")

• long -- (having or Being1.) Being, beingness, existence -- (the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries")
  
  2.) Organism, being -- (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
  
  being more than Normal1.) Convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula -- (something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors")
  
  1.) Normal -- (conforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal; "serve wine at normal room temperature"; "normal diplomatic relations"; "normal working hours"; "normal word order"; "normal curiosity"; "the normal course of events")
  
  normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply")

Overview of adv long
      »   The adv long has 2 meanings (first 1 from tagged texts)

• long -- (for an Extended1.) Widen, broaden, extend -- (extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard")
  
  2.) Run, go, pass, lead, extend -- (stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets")
  
  extended time or at a Distant1.) Distant -- (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; "distant villages"; "the sound of distant traffic"; "a distant sound"; "a distant telephone call")
  
  2.) Distant -- (far apart in relevance or relationship; "a distant cousin"; "a distant likeness")
  
  distant time; "a Promotion1.) Promotion, publicity, promotional material, packaging -- (a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution; "the packaging of new ideas")
  
  2.) Promotion -- (act of raising in rank or position)
  
  promotion long overdue"; "Something1.) Something -- (a thing of some kind; "is there something you want?")
  
  something long Hoped1.) Hope, trust, desire -- (expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise")
  
  2.) Hope -- (be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well")
  
  hoped for"; "his Name1.) Name -- (a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing")
  
  2.) Name -- (by the sanction or authority of; "halt in the name of the law")
  
  name has long been forgotten"; "Talked1.) Talk, speak -- (exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words")
  
  2.) Talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise -- (express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize")
  
  talked all Night1.) Night, nighttime, dark -- (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside)
  
  2.) Night -- (the time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night")
  
  night long"; "how long Will1.) Volition, will -- (the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith)
  
  2.) Will -- (a fixed and persistent intent or purpose; "where there's a will there's a way")
  
  will you be gone?"; "Arrived1.) Arrive, get, come -- (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight")
  
  2.) Arrive, make it, get in, go far -- (succeed in a big way; get to the top; "After he published his book, he had arrived"; "I don't know whether I can make it in science!"; "You will go far, my boy!")
  
  arrived long Before1.) Earlier, before -- (earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before"; "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier")
  
  2.) Ahead, in front, before -- (at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross of Jesus marching on before")
  
  before he was expected"; "it is long After1.) After -- (located farther aft)
  
  1.) Subsequently, later, afterwards, afterward, after, later on -- (happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"; "it didn't happen until afterward"; "two hours after that")
  
  after your bedtime")

• long -- (for an Extended1.) Widen, broaden, extend -- (extend in scope or range or area; "The law was extended to all citizens"; "widen the range of applications"; "broaden your horizon"; "Extend your backyard")
  
  2.) Run, go, pass, lead, extend -- (stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets")
  
  extended distance)