单词 | long-time |
释义 | long-timeadj. 1. That has been such for a long time, long-standing; spec. (of a person) having had a specified role or identity for a long time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > of long standing longOE oldOE veterate?1541 long-rooted1562 of long standinga1568 old-standinga1627 veteran1648 long-running1651 long-standing1655 old-established1776 long-breathed1816 long-time1851 the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > still continuing or enduring yet1608 long-time1912 1851 Knickerbocker Jan. 99 We looked back..and thought of our departed, our long-time friend and daily associate, William Osborn. 1877 A. M. Sullivan New Ireland xv. 177 A long-time colleague and friend. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 5/3 A long-time deacon of the Tabernacle and personal friend of the late Charles Spurgeon. 1912 T. Dreiser Financier xx. 330 He looked into his long-time friend's eyes, and they smiled. 1956 H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) ii. 17 You talk it up like a longtime grifter. 1976 State Jrnl. (Lansing, Mich.) 11 July b7/1 Ducks are a long-time attraction to visitors. 2008 Q May 178/2 The Grammy-award winning nu-metallers combine forces with long-time collaborator Jay-Z for a one-off UK date. 2. That extends for a long time into the future; relating to or in effect for a long period of future time; long-term. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [adjective] > extending to the distant future long1800 long-dated1866 long-time1879 1879 Wisconsin State Reg. 21 June 1/7 Nothing is of such absorbing interest as a good, healthy, long-time mortgage. 1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales xx. 228 This is no indictment of the usefulness of long-time forecasts, because it is in any case impracticable to plan so far ahead. 1945 J. Von Neumann in B. Randell Origins Digital Computers: Sel. Papers (1973) viii. 358 R..is the natural medium for long time storage of all the information obtained by the automatic device. 2013 Vanguard (Lagos) (Nexis) 19 Apr. The organization's long time goal is to build a cerebral palsy centre in Lagos. 3. That requires, takes up, or lasts for a long time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring longeOE longsomeeOE long of lifeOE lastinga1225 cleaving1340 continualc1340 dwellingc1380 long-livinga1382 everlastingc1384 long-duringa1387 long-lasting?a1400 long-liveda1400 broadc1400 permanable?c1422 perseverant?a1425 permanentc1425 perdurable?a1439 continuedc1440 abiding1448 unremoved1455 eternalc1460 long-continued1464 continuing1526 long-enduring1527 enduring1532 immortal1538 diuturn?1541 veterated1547 resiant?1567 stayinga1568 well-wearinga1568 substantive1575 pertinacious1578 extant1581 ceaseless1590 marble1596 of length1597 longeval1598 diuturnal1599 nine-lived1600 chronic1601 unexhausted1602 chronical1604 endurable1607 continuant1610 indeflourishing1610 aged1611 indurant1611 continuatea1616 perennious1628 seculara1631 undiscontinueda1631 continuated1632 untransitory1632 long-spun1633 momently1641 stative1643 outliving1645 constant1653 long-descended1660 voluminousa1661 perduring1664 perdurant1671 livelong1673 perennial1676 longeve1678 consequential1681 unquenched1703 lifelong1746 momentary1755 inveterate1780 stabile1797 persistent1826 unpassing1831 all-time1846 year-long1846 teak-built1847 lengthful1855 long-term1867 long haul1873 sticky1879 week-to-week1879 perenduring1883 long-range1885 longish1889 long-time1902 long run1904 long-life1915 1902 A. T. Still Philos. & Mech. Princ. Osteopathy ix. 211 The womb..has, occasionally, long-time jobs to do, which it must stay with and superintend for nine or ten months. 1944 C. Sandburg in B. A. Botkin Treasury Amer. Folklore p. vi A longtime book is this. One reading won't do for it. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 13 Long voyage in a small room. There's a long-time book to finish. 2006 Cineaste Summer 81/1 Mizoguchi is perhaps the greatest master ever of the method of shooting known as extended sequence or long-time composition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1851 |
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