long meaning
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[lɒŋ] [lɔŋ] [lɑŋ] [-ɒŋ] 
UK US WLong
- Long may refer to:
- Length, the long dimension of any object
- Lóng, a Chinese dragon
- Lòng, name for a laneway in Shanghai
- Long (surname), a common surname
- Long (finance), a position in finance, especially stock markets
- Long (Bloody Roar), a fictional character in the video-game series Bloody Roar
- Long integer, a computer data type denoted by long in many programming languages
- Long, a fielding term in cricket
FR long 
- NounPLlongsSUF-long
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
- Every uptick made the longs cheer.
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- longitude.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
- VerbSGlongsPRlongingPT, PPlonged
- VT (finance) To take a long position in.
- The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.
- VI To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
- She longed for him to come back.
- (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
- VT (finance) To take a long position in.
- AdjectiveCOMlongerSUPlongest
- 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.
- Having great duration.
- The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
- Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
- (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
- I'm long in DuPont; I have a long position in DuPont.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
- No! That forehand is long  [ …] .
- OBS Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- (archaic) On account of, because of.
- 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).
- AdverbCOMlongerSUPlongest
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- They held on as long as they could, but when the heavy artillery fire started, they had to cut and run.
- The platform grain shield and the windboard at rear of the binder deck will assist in making better bundles and prevent scattering of grain, if properly adjusted for long or short straw.
- Well-designed multicentered placebo-controlled trails with a long follow-up should be realized to finally determine the real value of mifepristone treatment.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Long and almost straight vessels (vasa recta), into which the efferent vessel of those tufts situated at the bases of the pyramids, divides.
- Long an outsider in Western politics, Portugal came in from the cold after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
- Long believed to be extinct, the purple-bellied speckled turtle was sighted for the first time in living memory in a remote pasture near Chicago'.'
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Vote now, as this thread is sure to make its way into squirrelable territory before long!
- You know, they had these secondhanded stores. Dad went to get me a pair of knee pants, but they'd been here too long!
- Inevitably those bodies age and uglify under her influence, but if they are outstandingly beautiful at the outset, that process takes longer.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of long in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Adverbs
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Control verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Control verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "long" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also an adverb. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a control verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.