long (verb)
21long — [OE] Long goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgaz, which also produced German, Dutch, and Danish lang and Swedish lång. It is presumably related to Latin longus ‘long’ (source of French long, Italian lungo, and Romanian lung) but quite how… …
22LONG — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index long noun extension adjective long1 (3) verb lengthen short verb shorten See also …
23long — I adjective a long silence before long Syn: lengthy, extended, prolonged, extensive, protracted, long lasting, long drawn out, drawn out, spun out, dragged out, seemingly endless, lingering, interminable Ant …
24long — I adjective a long silence Syn: lengthy, extended, prolonged, protracted, long lasting, drawn out, endless, lingering, interminable Ant: short, brief II verb I longed for the holidays Syn …
25go a long way — verb suffice or be adequate for a while or to a certain extent (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: ↑suffice, ↑do, ↑answer, ↑serve • Verb Frames: Something s * * * go a long way …
26go a long way — verb a) To be adequate or helpful for a significant amount of time. This new law will go a long way in addressing this issue. b) To achieve considerable success. Thank you for your generous donation; Im sure it will go a long way …
27come a long way — verb To make significant progress. Computer generated graphics have come a long way in the past few decades …
28Germanic strong verb — In the Germanic languages, a strong verb is one which marks its past tense by means of ablaut. In English, these are verbs like sing, sang, sung. The term strong verb is a translation of German starkes Verb , which was coined by the linguist… …
29Phrasal verb — A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition, a verb and an adverb, or a verb with both an adverb and a preposition, any of which are part of the syntax of the sentence, and so are a complete semantic unit. Sentences, however, may… …
30Auxiliary verb — In linguistics, an auxiliary verb is a verb that gives further semantic or syntactic information about a main or full verb. In English, the extra meaning provided by an auxiliary verb alters the basic meaning of the main verb to make it have one… …
