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
- Such conditions are unfavourable for the installation and flourishment of a fauna and flora over longer periods of time.
- e're not sure how long the cloudy skies will last.
- The viability of the encapsulated parasites is long enough to enable the study of intravacuolar amastigogenesis and replication.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Long an outsider in Western politics, Portugal came in from the cold after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
- Long and almost straight vessels (vasa recta), into which the efferent vessel of those tufts situated at the bases of the pyramids, divides.
- 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
- You know, they had these secondhanded stores. Dad went to get me a pair of knee pants, but they'd been here too long!
- His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.
- Vote now, as this thread is sure to make its way into squirrelable territory before long!
- 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.