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
- Thank you for your generous donation; I'm sure it will go a long way.
- "Dey uster have a song 'bout de Mockers roun' de cabins, an' a dance went wid it, 'cause it was a berry long song; but aftah dat Sambo done change it some when he uster sing it."
- Face approximately 0.20 mm long and subequally wide in middle (strongly divergent ventrally), without setae.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Long even before the last tenant had occupied it, the room had been regarded with fear and aversion, and the end of that last tenant had in no way lightened the gloom that hung about the place.
- 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'.'
- Long and almost straight vessels (vasa recta), into which the efferent vessel of those tufts situated at the bases of the pyramids, divides.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- His fingers were shriveled from being in the bath for too long.
- At one time, I could walk ten miles in a day, but I can't any longer.
- My hand stings after knocking on the door so 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
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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.