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Overlong meaning

Too long; overly long.

Using Overlong

  • The main meaning on this page is: Too long; overly long.
  • In the example corpus, overlong often appears in combinations such as: overlong and, overlong encodings, of overlong.

Context around Overlong

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

start 1× non 1× movie 1× taken 1× congratulatory 1× unsupportably 1×

Often after:

encodings 2× encoded 1× name 1× arriving 1× seasons 1× geminate 1× encoding 1×

Sentence patterns with Overlong

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

are called overlong and are 1× bloated and overlong and made 1× called an overlong encoding 1× could start overlong encodings in 1× episodes of overlong seasons past 1× geminate and overlong geminate includes 1× had taken overlong before trump 1× it s overlong arriving at 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a fantastic achievement 1× but a lot 1× but the movie 1× estonian and some 1× gone are the 1× longer encodings are 1×

Common sentence endings:

an overlong encoding 1× and frequently boring 1× by an asterisk 1× for this story 1× includes suprasegmental features 1× it a masterpiece 1×

Words around Overlong

Just before it in the word index:

overlock 8 overloads 16 overloading 67 overloaded 134 overload 159 overlit 2

Just after it in the word index:

overlook 402 overlooked 817 overlooking 523 overlooks 150 overlord 114 overlords 65

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaon 19 abbv 19 abdalla 19 abdirahman 19 abdulmalik 19 abhimanyu 19

Corpus analysis for Overlong

  • In this selection, "overlong" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, start, non, movie, encodings, encoded and name stand out and add context to how "overlong" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include are called overlong and are and bloated and overlong and made. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "overlong" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with overlong

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

This is called an overlong encoding. (6 words)

Unsupportably overlong, with a feel-good self-care denouement that’s almost dangerous. (13 words)

But a LOT of the general public found the movie overlong and frequently boring. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

After all, that was the raison d’etre for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association bringing him back for a fifth time: to add some buzz to a self-congratulatory, overlong three-hour telecast. (33 words)

The aspirations are admirable, but at 140 minutes it’s overlong, arriving at a pretty natural end before another act begins and we launch into what suggests an unwarranted second film. (31 words)

Gone are the airy filler episodes of overlong seasons past; gone are any nonsensical backslides in character development meant to keep the story from burning itself out ahead of broadcast schedule. (31 words)

Example sentences (14)

E0 and F0 could start overlong encodings, in this cast the lowest non-overlong-encoded code point is shown, marked by an asterisk "*".

But a LOT of the general public found the movie overlong and frequently boring.

It’s the kind of overlong name you need a fold-out screen to appreciate.

The aspirations are admirable, but at 140 minutes it’s overlong, arriving at a pretty natural end before another act begins and we launch into what suggests an unwarranted second film.

They must restore trust in politics and cure the nihilism and cynicism that had taken overlong before Trump came on to the scene.

A fantastic achievement and one that prevented the movie from becoming confusing, bloated and overlong and made it a masterpiece.

After all, that was the raison d’etre for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association bringing him back for a fifth time: to add some buzz to a self-congratulatory, overlong three-hour telecast.

But the movie is overlong and not especially gripping, and the strategy of one-shot done in real-time might not have been ideal for this story.

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Gone are the airy filler episodes of overlong seasons past; gone are any nonsensical backslides in character development meant to keep the story from burning itself out ahead of broadcast schedule.

Unsupportably overlong, with a feel-good self-care denouement that’s almost dangerous.

Estonian and some Sami languages have three phonemic lengths: short, geminate, and long geminate, although the distinction between the geminate and overlong geminate includes suprasegmental features.

Longer encodings are called overlong and are not valid UTF-8 representations of the code point.

Overlong encodings In principle, it would be possible to inflate the number of bytes in an encoding by padding the code point with leading 0s.

This is called an overlong encoding.

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Common combinations with overlong

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "overlong" in a sentence?
An example: "E0 and F0 could start overlong encodings, in this cast the lowest non-overlong-encoded code point is shown, marked by an asterisk "*"." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "overlong" from authentic English texts.
What does "overlong" mean?
Overlong means: Too long; overly long.
How many example sentences with "overlong" are there?
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