transcription, транскрипция: [ əlɒŋ, AM əlɔ:ŋ ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: In addition to the uses shown below, 'along' is used in phrasal verbs such as ‘go along with’, ‘play along’, and ‘string along’.
1.
If you move or look along something such as a road, you move or look towards one end of it.
Newman walked along the street alone...
The young man led Mark Ryle along a corridor...
I looked along the length of the building.
PREP
2.
If something is situated along a road, river, or corridor, it is situated in it or beside it.
...enormous traffic jams all along the roads.
...houses built on piles along the river...
PREP
3.
When someone or something moves along , they keep moving in a particular direction.
She skipped and danced along...
The wide road was blocked solid with traffic that moved along sluggishly.
ADV : ADV after v
4.
If you say that something is going along in a particular way, you mean that it is progressing in that way.
...the negotiations which have been dragging along interminably...
My life is going along nicely.
ADV : ADV after v
5.
If you take someone or something along when you go somewhere, you take them with you.
This is open to women of all ages, so bring along your friends and colleagues...
ADV : ADV after v
6.
If someone or something is coming along or is sent along , they are coming or being sent to a particular place.
She invited everyone she knew to come along...
ADV : ADV after v
7.
You use along with to mention someone or something else that is also involved in an action or situation.
The baby’s mother escaped from the fire along with two other children...
PREP-PHRASE
8.
If something has been true or been present all along , it has been true or been present throughout a period of time.
I’ve been fooling myself all along...
PHRASE : PHR with cl , PHR after v
9.
along the way: see way