Definition of long in English English dictionary
- A surname. Originally a nickname for a tall man
- of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position)
- A long vowel
- For a long duration
I stay too long: but here my father comes.
- To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.
- An entity with a long position in an asset
Every uptick made the longs cheer.
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below)
It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
- Over a great distance in space
He threw the ball long.
- possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or financial instruments with prices positively correlated with them
- For a particular duration
How long is it until the next bus arrives?.
- A long integer variable, twice the size of an int and half of a long long. A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment
- Having great duration
The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
- To take a long position in
- {n} a kind of note
- {a} to a great length, by the fault, because
- {v} to desire earnestly
- {a} having length, protracted, tedious, slow
- American politician. As a populist but dictatorial governor of Louisiana (1928-1932), he instituted major public works legislation, and as a U.S. Senator (1930-1935) he proposed a national Share-The-Wealth program. To have an earnest, heartfelt desire, especially for something beyond reach. longitude. the written abbreviation for Longford. the written abbreviation of longitude. long range navigation Long Beach Long Island Long Island Sound long jump Long March Long Parliament Long Huey Pierce long distance running Night of the Long Knives
- (1) One who has bought a futures contract to establish a market position; (2) a market position which obligates the holder to take delivery; (3) one who owns an inventory of commodities See Short
- Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching
- Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point. Long usually applies to horizontal dimensions
- Through an extent of time, more or less; - - only in question; as, how long will you be gone? By means of; by the fault of; because of
- 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
- for an extended distance
- Far-reaching; extensive
- the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
- through a long period of time; for a long period of time; at a time far in the past; throughout
- A long sound, syllable, or vowel
- 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"
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away
- Term used to signify ownership of securities I am long 100 BCE common means that the investor owns 100 common shares of BCE Inc
- 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
- See Short, a
- used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration
- when bought on a margin
- One who has bought a futures or options on futures contract to establish a market position through an offsetting sale; the opposite of short Long Hedge - The purchase of a futures contract in anticipation of an actual purchase in the cash market Used by processors or exporters as protection against and advance in the cash price (See hedge, short hedge ) Margin - (See Performance Bond)
- A position is long with respect to a price if the position profits from an increase in that price An owner of a stock profits from an increase in the stock price and, hence, is long the stock An owner of an option profits from an increase in volatility and, hence, is long volatility
- Through the whole extent or duration
- The longest dimension; the greatest extent; in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it
- a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long" having or being more than normal or necessary: "long on brains"; "in long supply" 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" 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" of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e
- To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line
- 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"
- (1) The buying side of an open futures contract or futures option; (2) a trader whose net position in the futures or options market shows an excess of open purchases over open sales
- To belong; used with to, unto, or for
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
- One who has bought a futures or options on futures contract to establish a market position through an offsetting sale; the opposite of Short
- Refers to the market position of a person who has bought securities (expecting a price rise) that he has not yet sold
- possessing or owning stocks, bonds or other financial instruments
- desire strongly or persistently
- To go long is to buy a currency or security For example, if an investor believes that the Japanese economy is getting stronger and that, as a result, the Japanese Yen will appreciate in value, then he/she may want to buy Japanese Yen and take what is called a long position
- One who has bought futures contracts or owns a cash commodity
- 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"
- (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory"
- Signifies ownership of securities "I am long 100 U S steel" means the speaker owns 100 shares
- involving substantial risk; "long odds"
- {i} long period of time; long object; size for tall men
- of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
- 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30
- To a great extent in time; during a long time
- 2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647
- As in to "take a long position," or to be "long on supply," indicates a supplier has a lot of commodity to sell; opposite of short, which indicates the supplier has only a minimal amount of commodity at risk and/or to sell
- The position of an individual who has bought financial instruments
- used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
- planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
- The opposite of short selling, establishing a long position means to own a security with the expectation that it will appreciate One would say "I'm long bank stocks but short semiconductor companies " BACK TO TOP
- of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e g the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot')
- A position to purchase more of an instrument than is sold, hence, an appreciation in value if market prices increase
- Investors who go "long" own stock or another financial security It is a term that means the opposite of "short " See short selling
- 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
- having or being more than normal or necessary: "long on brains"; "in long supply"
- Long Beach
- A city near Los Angeles, California
- Long Island
- An island in New York
- Long Island iced tea
- A cocktail made with iced tea, vodka, gin rum and other ingredients
- long QT syndrome
- a heart disease in which there is an abnormally long delay between the electrical excitation (or depolarization) and relaxation (repolarization) of the ventricles of the heart
- long absent, soon forgotten
- Love fades away when people are distant and don't keep close physical contact
- long ago
- At a time in the past, especially the distant past
There was a Roman fort here long ago.
- long and hard
- for a long time and exerting a lot of effort
- long arm
- Influence, far-reaching power
The long arm of the law.
- long arm
- A pole tool used for handling things too far away to reach
- long arm of the law
- The influence or effectiveness of law enforcement institutions; law enforcement officers collectively
Repeat violent offenders will hopscotch over state lines to avoid the long arm of the law, said Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
- long arm statute
- In the law of civil procedure, a statute which establishes the activities by a potential defendant which will give the courts of a state personal jurisdiction over that defendant
- long arm statutes
- plural form of long arm statute
- long arms
- An individual who intends to steal or borrow things without asking
- long arms
- plural form of long arm
- long ball
- A kick in which the ball is driven over the heads of other players into an empty space, into which an attacker is moving
- long ballot
- A ballot that lists all candidates, for all positions, from all political parties, available to a specific voting district
- long ballots
- plural form of long ballot
- long black
- half-strength espresso coffee
- long bone
- Any of the relatively slender bones of the upper and lower extremities
- long bones
- plural form of long bone
- long division
- A procedure for dividing multidigit numbers, breaking down the division into a series of easier steps
- long dozens
- plural form of long dozen
- long drink
- Any drink containing more than 5 ounces of liquid and less than 9 ounces. Typically, a long drink will have lots of ice and mixer
- long drink of water
- A tall person
- long drinks
- plural form of long drink
- long exact sequence
- An {{|}} with countably infinitely many terms
- long exact sequences
- plural form of long exact sequence
- long face
- An expression of sadness and disappointment
Why the long face? Is something wrong?.
- long finger
- middle finger
- long finger
- hire purchase or credit
Jim tries to look flash but he buys everything on the long finger.
- long finger
- A state of postponement or procrastination
- long for
- To have a desire for; to yearn for; to crave for
- long for
- To miss someone
- long green
- or the Money, especially in the form of cash
Fox's new game show, The Chamber, lets people suffer to their hearts' content, with the hope of winning some long green, too.
- long gross
- Thirteen dozens - 156 (historical)
- long haul
- A long time; the long term; an extended period
I thought it would be a short project, but now it looks like I'm in it for the long haul.
- long haul
- a long distance
- long haul
- travelling a long distance
a long-haul flight.
- long hauls
- plural form of long haul
- long hop
- a relatively slow ball that bounces short of the batsman and is thus relatively easy to hit
- long hops
- plural form of long hop
- long hundred
- One hundred and twenty (120), 12 x 10
- long hundreds
- plural form of long hundred
- long in the tooth
- Old, aged
So as Microsoft began its 30th year last month, investors wondered whether it's a little long in the tooth.
- long johns
- Full-length undergarments worn to keep wearer warm in cold weather
- long jump
- An athletics field event where one has jump as far as possible, after taking a run-up
- long jumper
- An athlete who competes in the long jump
- long jumpers
- plural form of long jumper
- long legs
- influence, far-reaching power
- long live
- May he, she or it live for a long time; may it prosper
Long live the King!.
- long lost
- Alternative spelling of long-lost. (Something missing for a protracted length of time)
My long-lost brother showed up, borrowed money and vanished again.
- long meter
- A quatrain of an iambic pentameter having rhyme in the second and fourth lines
- long off
- a fielding position on the off side, about 70° forward of square, designed to prevent runs from drives or to catch lofted drives
- long offs
- plural form of long off
- long on
- a fielding position on the leg side, about 70° forward of square, designed to prevent runs from drives or to catch lofted drives
- long ons
- plural form of long on
- long paddock
- Stock routes and the sides of public roads viewed as a source of pasture for cattle, sheep, etc, in times of drought
2004: However, Bradford insists life on the long paddock is nowhere near as wild as it was at the height of the drought, when the routes were crawling with hungry stock and often being closed to prevent overgrazing. — Sydney Morning Herald, 10 April 2004, Time's up for the long paddock.
- long pepper
- The flowering vine Piper longum in the genus Piper (pepper) of family Piperaceae, cultivated for its choracteristically long fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning
- long pig
- Human flesh used by cannibals as meat
While Melanesian cannibals make long pig, barbecuing enemies, legal and political cannibals in San Francisco put a beautiful wealthy woman, Penny Penny Hill, on trial for murder.
- long pork
- Human flesh
- long profile
- A curve showing the vertical profile of a river from its head to mouth
- long purples
- the plant purple loosestrife
There with fantastic garlands did she come / Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, / That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, / But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
- long ranger
- A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages
This painstaking process of checking texts and cultural data rather than dictionaries may seem to be not worth the candle for some (but not all) long-rangers.
- long rangers
- plural form of long ranger
- long road to hoe
- Misconstruction of long row to hoe
- long row to hoe
- A difficult or arduous task
Raising three kids by himself is going to be a long row to hoe.
- long run
- An extended period of time
It's a little more work up front, but it will save a lot of time in the long run.
- long s
- The ſ character, as distinct from the short s — the s character
- long scale
- A system of numeric names in which every new term greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term. (i.e., a billion is a million million.)
- long shot
- A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later
- long shot
- Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working. The term arose from the accuracy of early ship guns, which were effective only at close range and unlikely to hit the mark at any great distance
We can try your plan, but it's a long shot and it probably won't work.
- long shots
- plural form of long shot
- long since
- Long ago; in the (distant) past
I don't know why he asked me to do that, when I had long since finished it.
- long stop
- A fielding position, now confined to the amateur game, behind the wicket-keeper (so as to retrieve balls that the wicket-keeper misses); a fielder in this position
- long stops
- plural form of long stop
- long story short
- Introducing a short version of, or simply the conclusion of, an involved story
Dr. Kelso: Long story short, I'm on the hook for sending Trong Tri Kelso to college and he doesn't want to go to a state school.
- long sweetening
- A viscous, syrupy sweetener, generally molasses, but sometimes table syrup
Reach me some of that long sweetening, honey, she'd say at the breakfast table.
- long swords
- plural form of long sword. an alternative spelling of longsword
- long tail
- The tail of a distribution that represents the rare occurrence of extreme values
- long tail
- Sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs
- long tails
- plural form of long tail
- long thousand
- One thousand and two hundred - 1200 (historical)
- long thousands
- plural form of long thousand
- long throw
- A long throw-in into the goal area
- long time
- Used as part of greeting of two people who have not been in contact for a long time
- long time no hear
- I haven't heard from you for a long time
Dave! Long time no hear! How has Boston been treating you?.
- long time no see
- I haven't seen you for a long time
Dave! Long time no see! How has Boston been treating you?.
- long ton
- The Avoirdupois or Imperial ton of 2,240 pounds
- long vowel
- Any of the vowels or diphthongs resulting from the Great Vowel Shift's effect on Middle English's original long vowels, and best exhibited in the names of the vowel letters A, E, I, O, U. In American lexicography their pronunciation is indicated by a macron, as, ē
- long vowel
- A vowel which is normally pronounced somewhat longer than other vowels (usually around 1½ to double length); represented in the IPA by the addition of a colon-like symbol, as, /aː/
- long weekend
- A weekend extended by one or more days off falling on the days that surround it
I took a long weekend with my wife when no one else had a holiday.
- long weekends
- plural form of long weekend
- long-acting
- Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the long term
- long-acuminate
- Tapering to a characteristically long point at its apex
- long-arm statute
- Alternative spelling of long arm statute
- long-arm statutes
- plural form of long-arm statute (alternative spelling of long arm statutes)
- long-chain
- Having a chain of more that about twelve carbon atoms
- long-distance
- Over a great length (e.g. a long-distance runner)
- long-distance
- Referring to a non-local telephone call, a toll call
- long-drawn-out
- Protracted, extending for a great period of time
- long-eared owl
- Asio otus, a species of owl which breeds in Europe, Asia, and North America. Long eared owls are partially migratory, moving south in winter from the northern parts of their range
- long-eared owls
- plural form of long-eared owl
- long-fingered frog
- A group of frogs of the Cardioglossa genus
- long-haired
- Having long, uncut hair on the head
- long-haired
- Having fur with long hairs (animals)
- long-haul
- Alternative spelling of long haul
- long-held
- held (assumed, proposed, believed etc.) for a long time
- long-jawed spider
- any spider from the family Tetragnathidae
- long-lasting
- Persisting or enduring for a long time
This long-lasting gum keeps its flavor for almost an hour.
- long-leafed
- Having long leaves
- long-leaved
- long-leafed
- long-legged buzzard
- a bird of prey in the Buteo genus
- long-legged buzzards
- plural form of long-legged buzzard
- long-lining
- A type of commercial fishing using a very long line with many baited hooks attached along its length
- long-lived
- Having a long lifespan; surviving for a long period of time
- long-lost
- Having been missing or unknown for a protracted period of time
My long-lost brother showed up, borrowed money and vanished again.
- long-period
- Taking over 200 years to complete an orbit, especially said of comets
- long-playing
- Referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had, an LP, generally a 12 inch 33 1/3 RPM record
- long-range
- Capable of operating over a great distance
Long-range missiles can shoot down any planes before they can even be seen.
- long-range
- Involving a great period of time
Long-range planning is not my specialty.
- long-ranger
- Alternative spelling of long ranger
- long-running
- Operating for a relatively extended period of time
The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.
- long-sighted
- hyperopic; farsighted
- long-spined bullhead
- A species of the Cottidae family, Taurulus bubalis
- long-spined bullheads
- plural form of long-spined bullhead
- long-standing
- Describing something that has been done for so long that it has become convention
Long-standing custom calls for referring to the town chairman as mayor, even though we don't have a mayor.
- long-standing
- Describing something that has existed for a long time
- long-suffering
- Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint
His long-suffering wife may have had to put up with him for many years, but she also benefited when times were good.
- long-tail boat
- Alternative spelling of longtail boat
- long-tail boats
- plural form of long-tail boat (alternative spelling of longtail boats)
- long-tailed tit
- Any of many subspecies of small passerine birds with long tails, Aegithalos caudatus, found throughout Europe and Asia
- long-tailed tits
- plural form of long-tailed tit
- long-term
- extending over a relatively long time period
- long-term potentiation
- a long-lasting (hours in vitro, weeks to months in vivo) increase, typically in amplitude, of the response of a postsynaptic neuron to a particular pattern of stimuli from a presynaptic neuron
- long-winded
- Tediously long in speaking; consuming much time; unnecessarily verbose
He launched into a long-winded discussion of the relative merits of asphalt and concrete.
- long-windedly
- In a long-winded manner; in a fashion employing more lengthy phrasing, utilizing extraneous words, making use of superfluous verbiage, applying more grandiose verbal construction, etc., than is strictly required, necessary, or desirable, in order to convey the essential nature of the communication
- long-windedness
- The use of more words than are necessary for clarity or precision; verbosity, prolixity
- long ball
- A baseball hit far enough to be a home run
The White Sox need a player who can hit the long ball.
- long suit
- (deyim) [usually with negative] (one's long suit) one's outstanding quality or achievement
- long-haul
- A long distance: It is a long haul from New York to Los Angeles
- longed
- Simple past tense and past participle of long
- longing
- Present participle of long
- longing
- The buying of a financial instrument with the expectation that its value will rise
- longing
- An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire
- longness
- length, lengthiness
- longing
- {n} an earnest desire, an ardent wish
- longish
- {a} moderately long
- Long Distance
- ld
- Long ago
- fern
- long ago
- of the distant or comparatively distant past; "We met once long ago"; "they long ago forsook their nomadic life"; "left for work long ago"; "he has long since given up mountain climbing"; "This name has long since been forgotten"; "lang syne"is Scottish
