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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
along
I.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ditch runs along/down etc sth
▪ A muddy ditch ran along the side of the field.
along the lines of,
▪ We usually start with general questions along the lines of, ‘How do you feel?’
along the same lines (=in the same way)
▪ We were both thinking along the same lines.
along...lines (=in a very different way)
▪ In South Africa, the press developed along very different lines.
an opportunity comes (along/up)
▪ We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.
coming along...nicely (=it is growing well)
▪ The garden’s coming along very nicely now .
divided along...lines
▪ The community remains divided along religious lines.
drive on/along/down the motorway
▪ He was driving along the motorway at a steady sixty miles an hour.
farther away/apart/down/along etc
▪ The boats were drifting farther and farther apart.
▪ a resort town farther up the coast
grope your way along/across etc
▪ I was groping my way blindly through the trees.
make...up as...go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking)
▪ I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along.
making...up as...went along
▪ He was making the story up as he went along.
run your fingers through/over/along etc sth
▪ She ran her fingers through his hair.
something along those lines
▪ They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines.
split along...lines
▪ The committee was split along party lines.
walk on/along the beach
▪ She loved to walk along the beach in the early morning.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
bring
▪ Else Lynes had also brought along her active class to perform a display item before a most appreciative audience.
▪ With their tote bags, the immigrants brought alOng all their old prejudices, and immediately picked up some new ones.
▪ Like Patterson and company in the past, he is being brought along for the experience.
▪ Water, oxygen, and food will be brought along from Earth at a cost of several thousand dollars per pound.
▪ Di Driver brought along some photographs taken just over a year ago.
▪ A light jacket is good to bring along, as the weather is often chilly this time of year.
▪ Pam has come down for a day of shopping, bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath.
▪ She kept in the background, realizing that she had only been brought along to make up numbers.
come
▪ My Director-General asked me to come along because I usually handle the lower-level liaison with Number 10.
▪ Johnny sat down and cried. Along came a fox, who asked Johnny why he was crying.
▪ Then along came an entrepreneurial Yorkshireman called Thomas Stamford Raffles.
▪ He put his knuckles on the wet tile, went into a three-point stance to test how the arm was coming along.
▪ More humans will come along in the morning.
▪ Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
▪ I kind of gave it up by the time she came along.
get
▪ National literatures, like writers, get along the best way they can, and with what they can.
▪ Our students are markedly lacking in social skills, the ability to meet people and to get along with them.
▪ For a long time now we've called ourselves poor, but we've managed to get along.
▪ Her major concern is how she will succeed at making sure the people on the teams get along with one another.
▪ Wolves and Goblins seem to get along very well, and the two races have thrived together.
▪ She used her conciliatory skills to get along with her remote grandfather, who provided so little company for her grandmother.
▪ But we did get along all right.
▪ The girls at the school remarked on how well the beasts got along.
go
▪ These pieces, on view in London, also went along the smugglers' network.
▪ We are going along at top speed, because we are using all ours up just as fast as we can.
▪ Remember that you are bound to go along some passages that are dead ends.
▪ It has all of the requisite sand, surf, sun, snobs and sin to go along with its saucy swimwear.
▪ She just went along the wall, and I didn't see her face.
▪ But Ellison said Jobs ultimately decided not to go forward and he went along.
▪ But no doubt you went along just in case.
▪ He emphatically is not advocating parents to go along with kids' desires for tattoos.
help
▪ They must be helped along the funnel to Marseilles, M'mselle.
▪ Since then, the death cap has been steadily expanding its range, helped along recently by a string of rainy winters.
hurry
▪ She hurries along the street, looking straight in front of her.
▪ She saw a figure hurrying along the pavement towards her, and realised that it was Marco.
▪ So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room.
▪ She hurried along the path, past matching stone lions, up a few stairs to the imposing door.
▪ He hurried along the deserted early-morning pavements to the cinema.
▪ She jumped out of the car and hurried along the road, ignoring the colourful epithet that followed her.
▪ There's loads of shops with their lights on and traffic and people hurrying along the pavement.
▪ The next instant, dizzy with the excitement that possessed her, she was hurrying along the corridor towards his office.
move
▪ It's a very good cruiser, too, moving along effortlessly at motorway limit speeds and above. 40.
▪ For five minutes she is moving along as usual.
▪ The whole of him vibrating with the bus as it moved along.
▪ We are are so big, and move along with such momentum, that we are able to live through everything.
▪ Instead of drifting along the ceiling of the corridor, the smoke moves along as a solid plug.
▪ Director Scott Michell acquits himself admirably; this is his first feature, and it moves along smoothly, professionally, rhythmically.
▪ The Mercedes moved along the Kurfurstendamm as snow started to fall again.
▪ The plates would then presumably move along with the currents, connecting the upwellings and downwellings in giant convection cells.
play
▪ Thacker was not overjoyed to see them, but he played along, switching on the charm.
▪ The neighbor, it turns out, is fashioning a crude, one-string instrument so he can play along.
▪ Had he really thought that I would play along?
▪ Of course, I play along.
▪ Dustin, realising the error, decided to play along.
▪ The Raiders played along with the theme.
▪ I played along, saying I was acting on behalf of Boot-in Inc.
▪ Shultz refused to play along, saying that Peres should convince his own prime minister.
run
▪ It had a nasty, disfiguring stain running along the whole of the top edge.
▪ To some extent the answer is self-evident: State and national politics run along distinct and not always parallel tracks.
▪ Steadying himself, he made his way over the roof and on to the parapet that ran along the side of the building.
▪ A bench ran along one wall; there was a table in front of it.
▪ His analysis of the situation ran along different lines.
▪ People stopped and stared, or laughed, or ran along beside us screaming.
▪ The road ran along the valley between them, where boulders had settled.
▪ A promenade ran along the top, and Ruth saw Council workmen piling sandbags against the brightly painted railings.
sing
▪ You can also sing along to the songs if you wish.
▪ She played piano, and sang, and we all tried to sing along.
▪ He even began to sing along quietly when Gary played.
▪ A possible suitor wearing a Walkman sang along intermittently much louder than he realized.
▪ The audience waved, swayed and sang along enthusiastically, as they had for the procession of artists who had preceded him.
▪ The congregation was singing along vigorously and clapping.
▪ One fan sang along and plucked at an imaginary guitar, but he turned out to be the roadie.
▪ I like songs that you can sing along to, and you can remember.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I must/I'd better be getting along
I'd better mosey along/be moseying along
all along
▪ He realized that she'd been right all along.
▪ I knew all along I wanted to live in the Santa Fe area.
▪ I spent over an hour looking for my keys, and they were in my purse all along.
▪ Grant arrived on the battlefield to find the Federals under heavy pressure all along their front.
▪ He has been polite to Paul all along.
▪ It was something he knew all along.
▪ It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker.
▪ That has been my position all along.
▪ The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see.
▪ They probably thought I was crazy all along.
▪ We told Kelly all along what the doctors were saying.
along religious/ethnic/party etc lines
▪ In Moldavia there was a marked division of voting along ethnic lines.
▪ In the specific conditions of post-colonial underdevelopment it is not unusual to find conflict within the bourgeoisie working along ethnic lines.
▪ It comes as no surprise that the caricatures are extended along ethnic lines.
▪ On Capitol Hill, reactions to Bush's proposals fell predictably along party lines.
▪ The committee voted 21-16, along party lines, to empower Burton.
▪ The Council, said the author, should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines.
▪ The vote was 35 to 24, almost strictly along party lines.
along these/those lines
▪ Democritus drew up a map along these lines.
▪ Different proposals along these lines have already been introduced by members of Congress from both parties.
▪ Frankly, I had nothing to share along those lines.
▪ I was getting a lot of work along these lines in the theater.
▪ In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
▪ It would be quite wrong to claim that it gave us orders along those lines.
▪ Opposition leaders are afraid to give Milosevic the pretext to use more brutality and proclaim martial law or something along those lines.
▪ The parties have made promises along these lines.
along/down the road
▪ At one spot along the road, a lone flower escaped the flames that poured through the Three Bar Wildlife Area.
▪ How far down the road of cutbacks do bank management want to go?
▪ Lily shot a quick horrified look up and down the road.
▪ No car had come down the road for a while.
▪ There's a nice place down the road.
▪ Well, we want to let you know that a new church is opening just down the road from you.
be carried along (by sth)
▪ Corpses were carried along, standing upright.
▪ He wasn't, so he didn't go right down, but was carried along under water.
▪ I let myself be carried along by the crowd.
▪ She was carried along the railway line to the station from where an ambulance took her to Colchester General Hospital.
be coming along
▪ Because when he was coming along he was always getting me to tell him the story about you.
▪ He put his knuckles on the wet tile, went into a three-point stance to test how the arm was coming along.
▪ I noticed that a horse was coming along the road, so I supposed the animals were afraid of him.
▪ Let Hilda know if you are coming along.
▪ Some one was coming along the corridor from the foyer.
▪ We have Billy Reagan, too, who is coming along nicely.
▪ Yes, somebody was coming along the passage - a man.
▪ Your deck should be coming along nicely now, with the structure in place.
be strung (out) along/across etc sth
▪ Lights were strung across the promenade; around the Casino.
come along!
come/go along for the ride
▪ I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride.
▪ But do members just go along for the ride?
▪ His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride.
▪ I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride.
▪ I went along for the ride.
▪ Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride.
▪ Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.
▪ Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride.
▪ The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride.
get on/along famously
▪ By all accounts, she and Uncle Walter got on famously.
▪ Dorothy and Amelia got on famously.
▪ The ticket woman and I had got on famously.
▪ They spoke with me and we got on famously.
get on/along like a house on fire
go along with you!
move sb ↔along
must/should etc be pushing along
play sb along
right along/through/around etc
▪ Don't pull the thread right through at this stage.
▪ He came right through the War, just to be killed on that damned motorbike.
▪ He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
▪ He had slept right through the night.
▪ His grey eyes stared back at me intensely, as if right through me.
▪ I love to hear this, but then you see guys slide right through the draft.
▪ Route 1 runs right through it.
run your eyes over/along etc sth
▪ The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we weren't there.
somewhere along the line
▪ Somewhere along the line, we just stopped talking to each other.
▪ And somewhere along the line, the street became an idea.
▪ But somewhere along the line they stopped laughing when they compared their own results with what we were achieving.
▪ But somewhere along the line, downhill skiing was too much of a chore and an expense.
▪ Every accident may be regarded as the result of the action of a human being somewhere along the line.
▪ He and Wharton are related somewhere along the line.
▪ If he did, the probability is that his genetic inheritance played its part somewhere along the line.
▪ They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.
▪ You missed your forte somewhere along the line, Meg.
string sb along
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He showed me the notes he had made as we went along.
▪ I was driving along, listening to the radio.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A door banged several yards along.
▪ For five minutes she is moving along as usual.
▪ I did not persuade or influence him; he intended all along to stick it out until the end.
▪ I spent more time with the law, along with family, in a general, small practice.
▪ I stay a few feet behind, watching the three of them shuffle along at a ten-month-old's pace.
▪ It was not a big deal: all the unions were expected to go along.
▪ They had enjoyed each other's company over the last hour, hacking along the foreshore of the estuary.
▪ When data is fed into input, D1 and a clock pulse given, the data moves along one place.
II.preposition
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Martins' house is somewhere along this road.
▪ The Rif Mountains were visible as we sailed along the African coast.
▪ They put up a fence along the sidewalk.
▪ Troops were stationed all along the border.
▪ Walk along the canal as far as the bridge.
▪ We followed the path along the shore for several miles.
▪ We took a walk along the river.
▪ Wild strawberries grew along the trail.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Along

Along \A*long"\ (?; 115), adv. [OE. along, anlong, AS. andlang, along; pref. and- (akin to OFris. ond-, OHG. ant-, Ger. ent-, Goth. and-, anda-, L. ante, Gr. ?, Skr. anti, over against) + lang long. See Long.]

  1. By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.

    Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung.
    --Dryden.

  2. In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.

    We will go along by the king's highway.
    --Numb. xxi. 22.

    He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along.
    --Coleridge.

  3. In company; together.

    He to England shall along with you.
    --Shak.

    All along, all through the course of; during the whole time; throughout. ``I have all along declared this to be a neutral paper.''
    --Addison.

    To get along, to get on; to make progress, as in business. ``She 'll get along in heaven better than you or I.''
    --Mrs. Stowe.

Along

Along \A*long"\ [AS. gelang owing to.] (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)

Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. [Obs. or Low. Eng.] ``On me is not along thin evil fare.''
--Chaucer. ``And all this is long of you.''
--Shak. ``This increase of price is all along of the foreigners.''
--London Punch.

Along

Along \A*long"\, prep. By the length of, as distinguished from across. ``Along the lowly lands.''
--Dryden.

The kine . . . went along the highway.
--1 Sam. vi. 12.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
along

Old English andlang "entire, continuous; extended; all day long; alongside of," from and- "opposite, against" (from Proto-Germanic *andi-, *anda-, from PIE *anti "against," locative singular of *ant- "front, forehead;" see ante) + lang "long" (see long (adj.)). Sense extended to "through the whole length of."

Wiktionary
along

adv. 1 In company; together. 2 onward, forward, with progressive action. prep. By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to.

Related phrases:
WordNet
along

  1. adv. with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along"; "march on" [syn: on]

  2. in accompaniment or as a companion; "his little sister came along to the movies"; "I brought my camera along"; "working along with his father"

  3. to a more advanced state; "the work is moving along"; "well along in their research"; "hurrying their education along"; "getting along in years"

  4. in addition (usually followed by `with'); "we sent them food and some clothing went along in the package"; "along with the package came a bill"; "consider the advantages along with the disadvantages"

  5. in line with a length or direction (often followed by `by' or `beside'); "pass the word along"; "ran along beside me"; "cottages along by the river"

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Wikipedia
Along

Along may refer to:A vegetable like a yam

  • Along, Arunachal Pradesh, a town in India
  • Along Airport, an airport in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India
  • Along people, a Chinese ethnic group
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Usage examples of "along".

I was scooting my chair on its track back and forth along the row of sensor consoles that reported and recorded a variety of basic abiotic data.

Ann they had both been aboad a bus cruising at eighteen miles an hour along the sixty-lane freeway that ran from Bear Canyon to Pasadena, near the middle of Los Angeles.

Captain Toner has aboard a frigate called Endymion someone that I esteem very highly, along with forty other men he took from my ship off the coast of Brittany.

Doubtlessly, she would leave Jerusalem along with Boomer, although her curiosity about the new dimension of being that was aborning there had hardly been satisfied.

The hymen was not intact, and abrasions along the vaginal wall were visible.

The guns of those ships, being disposed along the sides, were for the most part able to bear only upon an enemy abreast of them, with a small additional angle of train toward ahead or astern.

Along the way Quisp jabbered ceaselessly, giving them an abridged story of his life.

Conal now sat on its sculpted door, and absently traced a slender finger along an air intake, glowering at the envelope.

I remembered all along that my father had been abusive, only I did not consistently remember.

The post was tapered to an acanthus pattern and was the best thing in the house, just about, along with the plank floor in the kitchen.

Naxid missiles, Martinez realized, accelerated to relativistic velocities outside the system, then fired through the wormhole along the route they knew Chenforce had to take.

When he was ready to break camp, Ace decided to ride along the river until he came to a fur post.

The mist became a light, steady rain, and as Ace rode along, a soft patter filled the stillness of aspen and pine.

Heroin continued to seep down into the valley like the water that ran along the acequias from the high Sierra Nevadas.

By noon he was riding a farmland road where the acequias carried the water down along the foot-trodden selvedges of the fields and he stood the horse to water and walked it up and back in the shade of a cottonwood grove to cool it.