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Definition of Long-distance

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or being a long-distance telephone call. "A long-distance operator"

2. Adjective. Covering a long distance. "She ran off with a long-distance truck driver"

Definition of Long-distance

1. Adjective. Over a great length (e.g. a long-distance runner). ¹

2. Adjective. Referring to a non-local telephone call, a toll call ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long-distance

long-awaited long-beard long-billed marsh wren long-breathed long-chain long-chain-acyl-CoA dehydrogenase long-chain-alcohol O-fatty-acyltransferase long-chain-alcohol dehydrogenase long-chain-fatty-acid-(acyl-carrier-protein) ligase long-chain-fatty-acid-CoA ligase

long-chain-fatty-acyl-glutamate deacylase long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl CoA dehydrogenase long-clawed prawn long-dated long-day plant long-distance (current term) long-distance call long-distance runner long-drawn long-drawn-out

long-eared bat long-eared owl long-eared owls long-established long-faced long-familiar long-fin tunny long-fingered frog long-haired long-handled

Literary usage of Long-distance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"... I have often distinguished it from a long distance, and have always known that the struggle was then drawing to a close. The whole sight is horrible and ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1913)
"By AIEE AUTOMATIC METHODS IN LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE OPERATION BY HM FRIENDLY AND AE BURNS In designing the equipment used by the Northwestern Long Distance ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The coarse images for this and succeeding cases of long distance (6-10, even 30 meters), are a striking feature. The phenomenon, becomes fainter but ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1906)
"CA produced should strike at F, and AF should scale the measured distance. 185. Example V. Buildings at a Long Distance from the Transit Line. ..."

5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"135, taking the place of the latter, giving all the rights of a local exchange as the latter did and adding to them the rights of a long distance system; ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"tery, when he was я long distance up the river from the Buttery, and then saw that tlie waters off the Battery were crowded with vessels. ..."

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