LONG-DISTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long-distance mean? 

• LONG-DISTANCE (adjective)
  The adjective LONG-DISTANCE has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or being a long-distance telephone call

2. covering a long distance

  Familiarity information: LONG-DISTANCE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG-DISTANCE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or being a long-distance telephone call

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a long-distance operator

Pertainym:

long distance (a telephone call made outside the local calling area)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Covering a long distance

Context example:

she ran off with a long-distance truck driver

Similar:

distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)

 Context examples 

Travel is an exciting possibility all month, for Mars will enter your long-distance travel sector on February 16 and stay until March 30.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Last year, Opportunity became the long-distance champion of all off-Earth vehicles when it topped the previous record set by the former Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 moon rover.

(Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance, NASA)

Although the spacecraft will be much farther from the planet than Voyager 2's closest approach, New Horizons' telescopic camera was able to obtain several long-distance approach shots of Neptune on July 10.

(NASA Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit, NASA)

It plays a significant role in Native Hawaiian creation and settlement stories, and is used to practice important activities like traditional long-distance voyaging and wayfinding.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

Of the centre table I could make nothing, until in your description of Gilchrist you mentioned that he was a long-distance jumper.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The electrons in the ionosphere normally reflect radio waves back to ground level, enabling long-distance radio communications.

(Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth, NASA)

Moreover, digital mammograms are easily archived and electronically transferable, making them ideal for teaching purposes and for evaluation during long-distance telemedicine consultations.

(Digital mammography, NCI Thesaurus)

Long-distance travel is one way you can satisfy that desire.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You also have the full moon in earth-sign Virgo at 20 degrees on March 9, which could send you on a beautiful long-distance trip that will put you in a location you adore.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Venus will grace your ninth house of long-distance travel, so that’s why I say this would be an ideal month to pack and go to an exotic place—a tropical island or country that would require your passport for entry.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)