What is a Long Continuous Sentence in English Definition

long

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adj

1 having relatively great extent in space on a horizontal plane

2 having relatively great duration in time

a postpositive of a specified number of units in extent or duration
three hours long

b (in combination)
a two-foot-long line

4 having or consisting of a relatively large number of items or parts
a long list

5 having greater than the average or expected range
a long memory

6 being the longer or longest of alternatives
the long way to the bank

7 having more than the average or usual quantity, extent, or duration
a long match

8 seeming to occupy a greater time than is really so
she spent a long afternoon waiting in the departure lounge

9 intense or thorough (esp. in the phrase a long look)

10 (of drinks) containing a large quantity of nonalcoholic beverage

11 (of a garment) reaching to the wearer's ankles

12 Informal foll by: on plentifully supplied or endowed (with)
long on good ideas

13 (Phonetics) (of a speech sound, esp. a vowel)

a of relatively considerable duration

b classified as long, as distinguished from the quality of other vowels

c (in popular usage) denoting the qualities of the five English vowels in such words as mate, mete, mite, moat, moot, and mute

14 from end to end; lengthwise

15 unlikely to win, happen, succeed, etc.
a long chance

a denoting a vowel of relatively great duration or (esp. in classical verse) followed by more than one consonant

b denoting a syllable containing such a vowel

c (in verse that is not quantitative) carrying the emphasis or ictus

17 (Finance) having or characterized by large holdings of securities or commodities in anticipation of rising prices
a long position

18 (Cricket) (of a fielding position) near the boundary
long leg

19 Informal (of people) tall and slender

20 ♦ in the long run See → run → 82

21 ♦ long in the tooth
Informal old or ageing
adv

22 for a certain time or period
how long will it last?

23 for or during an extensive period of time
long into the next year

24 at a distant time; quite a bit of time
long before I met you, long ago

25 (Finance) into a position with more security or commodity holdings than are required by sale contracts and therefore dependent on rising prices for profit
to go long

26 ♦ as (or so) long as

a for or during just the length of time that

27 ♦ no longer not any more; formerly but not now
n

28 a long time (esp. in the phrase for long)

29 a relatively long thing, such as a signal in Morse code

30 a clothing size for tall people, esp. in trousers

31 (Phonetics) a long vowel or syllable

32 (Finance) a person with large holdings of a security or commodity in expectation of a rise in its price; bull

33 (Music) a note common in medieval music but now obsolete, having the time value of two breves

34 ♦ before long soon

35 ♦ the long and the short of it the essential points or facts , (See also) → longs
(Old English lang; related to Old High German lang, Old Norse langr, Latin longus)

English Collins Dictionary - English Definition & Thesaurus

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sesquipedalophobia	n.	fear of long words	Ex: Trying to use 'sesquipedalophobia' instead of 'hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' isn't that much better for the syndrome sufferer; just about half as much frightening!
It's as broad as it is long	exp.	Used to express that it is impossible to decide between two options because they're equal	English expression
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia	n.	coined humorous term meaning the fear of long words	[Hum.] Trying to use 'sesquipedalophobia' instead of 'hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' isn't that much better for the syndrome sufferer; just half as much frightening!
tl;dr	abbr. acron.	Short for "too long; didn't read".	[Fam.];[Slang]
copyleft	n.	1. using copyright law to make a piece of work freely available and allowing its free distribution and modification (as long as its derivate versions follow the same copyright rules)
cobweb site	n.	a website that did not undergo any change for a long period of time	[Comp.];[Slang]
mustachioed	adj.	having a moustache, especially a bushy, long or elaborate one	Ex: Interrogated about the prime suspect he had lately spotted in a restaurant, the poet surprisingly claimed: "He was looking trim and was moustachioed eating an ice cream which was pistachioed".
! sesquipedalianism	n.	the practice of using very long words. Also sesquipedalism, sesquipedality. — sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, adj.
paint the town red	exp.	celebrate smth. with excitement; party wildly; party all night long
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis	n.	artificial long word coined to mean a lung disease known as silicosis, a type of pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of ultra-microscopic particles of crystalline silica volcanic dust. It has the particularity of being the longest word in the English language published in a dictionary	Longer tech. terms exist (up to 189,819 letters!).The word, presumably coined in 1935 by E.M. Smith (pres. of the National Puzzlers'League) in imitation of very long medical terms, contains 45 letters
pangram	n.	sentence containing all letters of a given alphabet at least once.The canonical example in English is: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'.	A perfect pangram contains each letter of the alphabet just once and thus is far more difficult to come up with. The best seems to be: 'Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx'.
! relocator	n.	a relocator refers to a person or company reponsible for the moving or relocating or one or more objects from one place to another. used in a sentence as "I am looking to hire some furniture relocators to move my items from one place to another."

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