Word Finder - lasts

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To perform, carry out.

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To endure, continue over time.

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Summer seems to last longer each year.

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To hold out, continue undefeated or entire.

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I don't know how much longer we can last without reinforcements.

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A tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes.

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To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last.

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to last a boot

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A burden; load; a cargo; freight.

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A measure of weight or quantity, varying in designation depending on the goods concerned.

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An old English (and Dutch) measure of the carrying capacity of a ship, equal to two tons.

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A load of some commodity with reference to its weight and commercial value.

The spell lasts twenty four hours, but it works.

No darkness lasts the ages.

The season lasts from early in June to the middle of September.

When a solution of the strength of about i in zo is applied to the skin it produces a local anaesthesia which lasts for many hours.

No darkness lasts the ages, Taran…I do not care to remember the sound of a bird's cry, but I wish I remembered the taste of spiced ale.

The subsidence of the latter usually lasts until October.

The life of these sexual forms lasts but a few days, and is entirely taken up with reproduction.

In Annam the rainy season begins during September and lasts for three or four months, corresponding with the northeast monsoon and also with a period of typhoons.

In the case of a North American species it is known that this larval life lasts for seventeen years.

Escrow usually lasts anywhere between 30 and 90 days, so be patient.

Under the gabella lease the contract lasts twenty-nine years, the lessee being obliged to make improvements, but being sometimes exempted from rent during the first years.

The kingdom of Israel lasts exactly half the time.

This lasts into February, when the northerly current begins to lose strength, and the gradual heating of the land produces local sea breezes from the gulf along the coast-line.

A commercial-grade blender lasts longer than your average kitchen version.

The most important dyssomnia is primary insomnia, which is defined as difficulty that lasts for at least one month in falling asleep or remaining asleep.

A dry season, which lasts from May to October, is followed by a rainy season, divided into the early winter and latter rains.

A so-called " rainy season " lasts from October to April, but the precipitation is chiefly in the form of snow on the mountains.

The remission or abatement lasts generally throughout the morning; and about noon there is an exacerbation, seldom ushered in by chills, which continues till the early morning following, when it remits or abates as before.

The dry season lasts from October to May, the hottest months appear to be in March and April, when the heat is increased by the burning of the corn and henequen fields.

The usual course of study lasts for three years, though some students remain for much longer.

The crystallization proper lasts one hour, the working of a charge four hours, six charges being run in twenty-four hours.

The distillation of 1000 lb charge lasts 5-6 hours, requires 500-600 lb coke or 30 gallons reduced oil, and yields about to% metallic zinc and I% blue powder - a mixture of finely-divided metallic zinc and zinc oxide.

The climate is cold, dry and healthy, despite the prevalence of the famous "Aleppo button," a swelling which appears either on the face or on the hands, and breaks into an ulcer which lasts a year and leaves a permanent scar.

But this carpet of flowers is very partially distributed and lasts but a short time.

In the northern half of the main island, in Yezo and in the Kuriles, the cold is severe during the winter, which lasts for at least four months, and snow falls sometimes to great depths.

The cold season commences at the beginning of November and lasts till March.

Consequently the temperature does not change and there is another well-marked halt in the cooling, and this halt lasts until the mixture has become wholly solid.

For the greater part of the year the animal is of a uniform grey colour, but about December its back becomes a brilliant orange-yellow, which lasts until about March, when it is again replaced by grey.

When it is set vibrating contact lasts during some part of the outward and some part of the inward swing.

It is usually the case that a unit lasts later in trade than in coinage; and the prominence of this standard in Italy may show how it is that this mina (18 unciae = 7400) was known as the "Italic" in the days of Galen and Dioscorides (2).

Peeling is chiefly done by women and lasts from early May to the middle of July.

In the latter case the disease is acute and rapidly fatal; in the former it is more chronic and lasts much longer, often several months.

Various exhibitions and prizes are awarded both in connexion with the entrance of students and at subsequent stages of the course of instruction, which normally lasts four years.

The rainy season in the interior lasts from May to October, but on the coast sometimes continues till December.

The dry season lasts from May to the end of October, the rest of the year being rainy.

The dry season, with north-west winds, lasts from December to May.

The performances take place on the Sundays of summer, in a large open-air theatre holding 6000 persons, and each lasts about nine hours, with a short intermission at noon.

The season lasts from April to October, but the springs are open the whole year through and are also largely attended in winter.

In either case such a lining is expensive, and has but a short life, in few works more than 200 charges, and in some only loo, though the silicious lining of the acid converter lasts thousands of charges.

It is in large part because of this shallowness, which contrasts so strongly with the height and roominess of the Bessemer converter, that the process lasts hours where the Bessemer process lasts minutes, though there is the further difference that in the open-hearth process the transfer of heat from flame to charge through the intervening layer of slag is necessarily slow, whereas in the Bessemer process the heat, generated as it is in and by the metallic bath itself, raises the temperature very rapidly.

Thus in the Westphalian pig and scrap practice, scrap usually forms 75 or even 80% of the charge, and pig only from 20 to 25%, indeed only enough to supply the carbon inevitably burnt out in melting the charge and heating it up to a proper casting temperature; and here the charge lasts only about 6 hours.

For instance it lasts only about 82 hours when equal parts of pig and scrap are used, instead of the 112 hours of the basic process.

The rainy season lasts from the end of May until October; storms are frequent and violent.

It is known as the Magh-mela, lasts for a whole month, and is attended by as many as 250,000 persons in ordinary years, either for religious or commercial purposes.

The rainy season lasts from midJune to the end of September, rain usually falling every three or four days in brief but violent showers.

Three days are the longest period for which it lasts.

This first period of Sicilian history lasts as long as Sicily remains untouched from any non-Hellenic quarter outside, and as long as the Greek cities in Sicily remain as a rule independent of one another.

The course lasts for about two years, and two hundred students can be accommodated.

Stag hunting begins on the 12th of August, and ends on the 8th of October; there is then a cessation until the end of the month, when the hounds are unkennelled for hind hunting, which continues up to Christmas; it begins again about Ladyday, and lasts till the 10th of May.

For pace and endurance no hunter approaches the English thoroughbred; and for a bold man who "means going," a steeplechase horse is often the best animal that could be obtained, for when he has become too slow to win races "between the flags," he can always gallop much faster, and usually lasts much longer, than animals who have not his advantage of blood.