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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: long
long
adj 1: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively
great or greater than average duration or passage of
time or a duration as specified;
“a long life”;
“a
long boring speech”;
“a long time”;
“a long
friendship”;
“a long game”;
“long ago”;
“an hour long”
[ant:
short]
2: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than
average spatial extension or extension as specified;
“a
long road”;
“a long distance”;
“contained many long
words”;
“ten miles long” [ant:
short]
3: of relatively great height;
“a race of long gaunt men”-
Sherwood Anderson;
“looked out the long French windows”
4: holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise
in prices;
“is long on coffee”;
“a long position in gold”
[ant:
short]
5: of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long
duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate',
`beat', `bite', `boat', `boot') [ant:
short]
6: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long
duration
7: involving substantial risk;
“long odds”
8: (of memory) having greater than average range;
“a long
memory especially for insults”;
“a tenacious memory” [syn:
tenacious]
9: planning prudently for the future;
“large goals that
required farsighted policies”;
“took a long view of the
geopolitical issues” [syn:
farseeing,
farsighted,
foresighted,
foresightful,
longsighted]
10: having or being more than normal or necessary:
“long on
brains”;
“in long supply”
long
adv 1: for an extended time or at a distant time;
“a promotion long
overdue”;
“something long hoped for”;
“his name has
long been forgotten”;
“talked all night long”;
“how
long will you be gone?”;
“arrived long before he was
expected”;
“it is long after your bedtime”
2: for an extended distance
long
n : a comparatively long time;
“this won't take long”;
“they
haven't been gone long”
long
v : desire strongly or persistently [syn:
hanker,
yearn]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Long
Long
\Long\, a. [Compar.
Longer; superl.
Longest.] [AS.
long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr,
Sw. l[*a]ng, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus. [root]125.
Cf.
Length,
Ling a fish,
Linger,
Lunge,
Purloin.]
1. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length;
protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to
short, and distinguished from broad or wide.
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2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a
considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series
of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a
long book.
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3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration;
lingering; as, long hours of watching.
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4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in
time; far away.
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The we may us reserve both fresh and strong
Against the tournament, which is not long.
--Spenser.
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5. Having a length of the specified measure; of a specified
length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that
is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.
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6. Far-reaching; extensive.
“ Long views.” --Burke.
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7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in
utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See
Short,
a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 22, 30.
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8. (Finance & Com.) Having a supply of stocks or goods;
prepared for, or depending for a profit upon, advance in
prices; as, long of cotton. Hence, the phrases: to be, or
go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the
market, to hold products or securities for a rise in
price, esp. when bought on a margin. Contrasted to
short.
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Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound
adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as,
long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned,
long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded,
etc.
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In the long run, in the whole course of things taken
together; in the ultimate result; eventually.
Long clam (Zo["o]l.), the common clam (
Mya arenaria) of
the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also
soft-shell clam and
long-neck clam. See
Mya.
Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality.
Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending
below the feet.
Long division. (Math.) See
Division.
Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen.
Long home, the grave.
Long measure,
Long meter. See under
Measure,
Meter.
Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which
assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell,
April 20, 1653.
Long price, the full retail price.
Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed
to be the
Orchis mascula. --Dr. Prior.
Long suit
(a) (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more
than three cards. --R. A. Proctor.
(b) One's most important resource or source of strength;
as, as an entertainer, her voice was her long suit.
Long tom.
(a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of
a vessel.
(b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western
U.S.]
(c) (Zo["o]l.) The long-tailed titmouse.
Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam
is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work
progresses, except where passages are needed.
Of long, a long time. [Obs.] --Fairfax.
To be long of the market, or
To go long of the market,
To be on the long side of the market, etc. (Stock
Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a
contract under which one can demand stock on or before a
certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to
short
in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short,
etc. [Cant] See
Short.
To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.
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Long
\Long\, n.
1. (Mus.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length
of a large, twice that of a breve.
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2. (Phonetics) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
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3. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the
phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and
substance of it. --Addison.
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Long
\Long\, adv. [AS. lance.]
1. To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line.
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2. To a great extent in time; during a long time.
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They that tarry long at the wine. --Prov. xxiii.
30.
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When the trumpet soundeth long. --Ex. xix. 13.
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3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or
posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long
before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.
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4. Through the whole extent or duration.
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The bird of dawning singeth all night long. --Shak.
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5. Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in
question; as, how long will you be gone?
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Long
\Long\, prep. [Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d
Along.]
By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See
Along of
, under 3d
Along.
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Long
\Long\, v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Longed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Longing.] [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch
out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang
long. See
Long, a.]
1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for
something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or
by for or after.
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I long to see you. --Rom. i. 11.
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I have longed after thy precepts. --Ps. cxix.
40.
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I have longed for thy salvation. --Ps. cxix.
174.
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Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with
fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea.
--Arbuthnot.
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2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.]
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The labor which that longeth unto me. --Chaucer.
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