Definition that contains elative
- from Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; the anitithesis and correlative of to;
- some relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent
- some relatively many but unspecified in number
- day the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
- great relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
- new not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- long primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- long of relatively great height
- long (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- long primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified