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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lasting
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lasting benefit
▪ These plans are likely to result in lasting benefit to the whole of our district.
a lasting friendship
▪ This began a lasting friendship between the two women.
a lasting impact (=one that lasts for a long time)
▪ The arrival of the railways made a lasting impact on many sectors of the economy.
a lasting impression (=one that someone remembers for a long time)
▪ Sam’s performance had clearly made a lasting impression on the audience.
a lasting influence (=continuing for a long time)
▪ His travels in Africa had a lasting influence on his work.
a lasting/permanent peace
▪ He has the chance to forge a lasting peace with the Palestinians.
an abiding/enduring/lasting memory (=that you will always have)
▪ The children's abiding memory of their father is of his patience and gentleness.
lasting fame (=being famous for a long time)
▪ Diderot gained lasting fame as the editor of the French Encyclopaedia.
lasting happiness (=happiness that continues)
▪ Leonie had found a lasting happiness in her relationship with Jim.
lasting value (=that will be important or useful for a long time)
▪ He wanted to achieve something of lasting value.
lasting/permanent harm
▪ The injury caused him discomfort but no lasting harm.
permanent/lasting memorial
▪ An appeal has been launched to build a lasting memorial to the composer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Between campaigns he formed attachments of a more lasting kind.
▪ Momentary pleasures are given up, but only because a more lasting pleasure is promised later.
▪ Two other recent plays, both dramatised, although one from real life, left a more lasting impression.
■ NOUN
damage
▪ There are people who are convinced that the problem is so acute that lasting damage has already been done.
▪ That was all fairly predictable, and unlikely to prove of lasting damage.
▪ The first meeting is also a time when transgressions are most likely to cause lasting damage.
▪ Her rifle butt had given him a nasty knock, but there would be no lasting damage.
▪ All unpleasant, especially to a small child, but usually of brief duration and causing no lasting damage.
effect
▪ However, a really creative approach can be a great attention-fixer and have a lasting effect.
▪ Some of the tax reforms in this budget, however, will have a large and lasting effect.
▪ Something she'd suffered, like chickenpox: nasty, but with few if any lasting effects.
▪ No one doubts that the move will have significant lasting effects on the world of Unix and its relations.
▪ Decisions taken on these issues were to have a lasting effect on the geographical deployment of full-time staff.
▪ It was a mild hallucinogen - no lasting effects.
▪ That is why what may at first seem to be a casual incident can have lasting effects.
▪ The only lasting effect it may have is on the careers of some of the people involved.
friendship
▪ Minton introduced him to Denis Wirth-Miller and Richard Chopping with whom he formed a lasting friendship.
▪ I have made lots of lasting friendships along my Guiding road as I have through Medau and think myself lucky.
▪ Above all, however, is the recurring theme of lasting friendship.
▪ Social clubs especially for hard-of-hearing people may create lasting friendships and opportunities for service.
▪ You meet some delightful people and lasting friendships result - being a husband and wife team helps.
▪ There were many crew changes therefore lasting friendships did not have time to mature.
impact
▪ The arrival of the railways made an important and lasting impact on many sectors of the economy.
▪ Certainly, they have had little lasting impact on teaching practices.
▪ Their coverage is tightly focused in order to achieve rapid but lasting impact on managers' effectiveness.
▪ They may have a lasting impact.
▪ The final chapter outlines what is involved in production planning if a video recording is to have any lasting impact.
▪ Dicey's work has had a major and lasting impact.
impression
▪ The implementation of the rationalisation programme left a lasting impression on Finniston which was to influence his future operating style.
▪ Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia.
▪ It made a lasting impression on me.
▪ But George Burt made a lasting impression on the place, after which it was no longer the old-world village it had been.
▪ His family had been very poor when he was young, and it had left a lasting impression on him.
▪ A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved.
▪ The first visit by prospective parents is important as it creates a lasting impression.
▪ Yet, regrettably, the lasting impression is of a merely superficial look at grinding poverty.
influence
▪ Like Shelley, he was a lasting influence on Steven Morrissey.
▪ Because they had no lasting influence, they were regarded as minor.
▪ Cochrane's criticism of the impact of health care has had a lasting influence and is often used to undermine health services.
peace
▪ The indigenous media need more than ever to promote lasting peace with justice, through ecumenical and interfaith dialogue.
▪ And as the action becomes bloodier, chances of a genuine and lasting peace become even more remote.
▪ There seems to be only one feasible solution that could bring lasting peace.
▪ A ceasefire, let alone lasting peace, will take long negotiation.
solution
▪ State terror can not be a lasting solution.
value
▪ Secondly, to give the magazine readability, something with lasting value and relevance that readers wish to keep for reference.
▪ The projects were to be of real and lasting value, and able in the long run to pay for themselves.
▪ I haven't produced a single piece of writing of lasting value in my life.
▪ An adequate transactional competence should be a real achievement of lasting value.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a lasting peace settlement
▪ His next book is about the lasting effects of the Vietnam war.
▪ Japan's creation of a Western-style economy has been the country's lasting achievement.
▪ The committee's decision could have a lasting effect on the community.
▪ The incident left a lasting impression on the young girl.
▪ The speech could do lasting damage to US--German relations.
▪ Until we all give up violence, there cannot possibly be lasting peace in the world.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lasting

Lasting \Last"ing\, a. Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

Syn: Durable; permanent; undecaying; perpetual; unending.

Usage: Lasting, Permanent, Durable. Lasting commonly means merely continuing in existence; permanent carries the idea of continuing in the same state, position, or course; durable means lasting in spite of agencies which tend to destroy.

Lasting

Last \Last\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lasting.] [OE. lasten, As. l[ae]stan to perform, execute, follow, last, continue, fr. l[=a]st, l[=ae]st, trace, footstep, course; akin to G. leisten to perform, Goth. laistjan to follow. See Last mold of the foot.]

  1. To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.

    [I] proffered me to be slave in all that she me would ordain while my life lasted.
    --Testament of Love.

  2. To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.

Lasting

Lasting \Last"ing\, n.

  1. Continuance; endurance.
    --Locke.

  2. A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women's shoes; everlasting.

  3. The act or process of shaping on a last.

Wiktionary
lasting

  1. Persisting for an extended period of time. n. 1 continuance; endurance 2 A durable woollen material formerly used for women's shoes; everlasting. 3 The act or process of shaping on a last. v

  2. (present participle of last English)

WordNet
lasting

  1. adj. continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value" [syn: permanent] [ant: impermanent]

  2. existing for a long time; "hopes for a durable peace"; "a long-lasting friendship" [syn: durable, long-lasting, long-lived]

  3. retained; not shed; "persistent leaves remain attached past maturity"; "the persistent gills of fishes" [syn: persistent] [ant: caducous]

  4. lasting a long time without change; "a lasting relationship"

  5. lasting for an indefinitely long period of time [syn: everlasting, eternal, eonian, aeonian]

Usage examples of "lasting".

Oswald Brunies, the strutting, candy-sucking teacher -- a monument will be erected to him -- to him with magnifying glass on elastic, with sticky bag in sticky coat pocket, to him who collected big stones and little stones, rare pebbles, preferably mica gneiss -- muscovy biotite -- quartz, feldspar, and hornblende, who picked up pebbles, examined them, rejected or kept them, to him the Big Playground of the Conradinum was not an abrasive stumbling block but a lasting invitation to scratch about with the tip of his shoe after nine rooster steps.

From the porch of the Church of Santa Maria Mayor, he watched his alguazils enter the house of the Princess of Eboli, bring her forth, bestow her in a waiting carriage that was to bear her away to the fortress of Pinto, to an imprisonment which was later exchanged for exile to Pastrana lasting as long as life itself.

There was reported the case of an hysterical female who had convulsions and mania, alternating with anuria of a peculiar nature and lasting seven days.

Donna Ignazia, who was delighted with my continence during the day, and apparently afraid of its not lasting, begged me to invite her cousin to supper.

He is incapable of a lasting relationship with any woman, except your grandmother, his mother, Centaine Courtney-Malcomess, and with you, his daughter.

In olden times they were introduced into ink with an honest belief that it would also improve and ensure its lasting qualities, but latterly more often to cheapen the cost of its manufacture.

Such a man as I have just portrayed could not make a fortune in Venice, because an aristocratic government can not obtain a state of lasting, steady peace at home unless equality is maintained amongst the nobility, and equality, either moral or physical, cannot be appreciated in any other way than by appearances.

I could not help feeling that his fancy, once gratified, was not likely at his time of life to become a more lasting sentiment, and I could therefore only be a burden to him, for he was not wealthy.

Her logic was better than that of Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations, but she admitted that such lasting felicity could exist only between two beings who lived together, and loved each other with constant affection, healthy in mind and in body, enlightened, sufficiently rich, similar in tastes, in disposition, and in temperament.

As a result, equilin produces estrogenic effects that are much, much more potent and much longer lasting than those produced by natural human estrogens.

Calverleigh is a fortune-hunter, and it has been made abundantly clear to me that Fanny believes herself to have formed a lasting passion for him.

December 17, but the festal customs were kept up for seven days, thus lasting until the day before our Christmas Eve.

We shall provide more Fewel to increase it and make it burn brighter and clearer, and give a stronger and more lasting Light and Warmth.

Cathy has described notes from the queen suggesting a continuous orgy, lasting years, with a change in the seminal constituency such that an individual woman might find it easier to rouse and take a break occasionally.

Rose, S P R, and Csillag, A Passive avoidance training results in lasting changes in deoxyglucose metabolism in left hemispheric regions of chick brain.