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long distance
1noun
- telephone service between distant places.
long-distance
2[ lawng-dis-tuhns, long- ]
adjective
- of, from, or between distant places:
a long-distance phone call.
- for, over, or covering long distances:
a long-distance runner.
adverb
- by long-distance telephone:
to call someone long-distance.
long-distance
noun
- modifier covering relatively long distances
a long-distance driver
- modifier (of telephone calls, lines, etc) connecting points a relatively long way apart
- a long-distance telephone call
- a long-distance telephone system or its operator
adverb
- by a long-distance telephone line
he phoned long-distance
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of long distance1
Origin of long distance2
Example Sentences
When lead is released into the air, it can travel long distances before settling to the ground, where it typically sticks to soil particles.
Many Californians face months-long waits for appointments or have to travel long distances or go to emergency rooms for non-urgent medical needs, which means hours spent in crowded waiting rooms for unnecessarily expensive care.
Fence lizards, unlike birds or large mammals, can鈥檛 travel long distances to more suitable habitat; they tend to live in the same place.
"It is long distance because he's in America right now with his son. So it's really difficult... I don't know where it's going to go, basically," she says.
Elephants can speak to each other using infrasonic rumbles 鈥 sounds that humans are incapable of hearing 鈥 that travel long distances and warn other nearby elephants of potential danger.
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