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Topic: long
Definition:

  • desire strongly or persistently primarily temporal sense
  • being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
  • "a long life"
  • "a long boring speech"
  • "a long time"
  • "a long friendship"
  • "a long game"
  • "long ago"
  • "an hour long" primarily spatial sense
  • of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
  • "a long road"
  • "a long distance"
  • "contained many long words"
  • "ten miles long" of relatively great height
  • "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson
  • "looked out the long French windows" good at remembering
  • "a retentive mind"
  • "tenacious memory" holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
  • "is long on coffee"
  • "a long position in gold" (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
  • "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long" involving substantial risk
  • "long odds" planning prudently for the future
  • "large goals that required farsighted policies"
  • "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"
  • "in long supply" for an extended time or at a distant time
  • "a promotion long overdue"
  • "something long hoped for"
  • "his name has long been forgotten"
  • "talked all night long"
  • "how long will you be gone?"
  • "arrived long before he was expected"
  • "it is long after your bedtime" for an extended distance

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    • Resources:

    The Long Now Foundation
    A project of computer pioneer Daniel Hillis and Whole Earth founder Stewart Brand to develop a 10,000 year clock. This is long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of the Millennium.
    http://www.longnow.org/

    Long Bets
    Discussion and wagers on important future events.
    http://www.longbets.org/

    U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network
    A collaborative effort involving more than 1100 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales. The network promotes synthesis and comparative research across sites and ecosystems and among other related national and international research programs.
    http://lternet.edu/

    The Long Hair Site
    Photo gallery, hair care advice, interviews and articles from the resource devoted to encouraging women to wear their hair long.
    http://www.tlhs.org/

    Monitoring Volcanic Unrest at Long Valley Caldera, California
    Real-time data on earthquakes, ground deformation, and volcanic gas.
    http://lvo.wr.usgs.gov/