Definition/Meaning of long
- English - Adjective: long (comparative longer or more long, superlative longest or most long) Having much distance in space from one end to the other. I need a long piece of wood. How long was your newborn baby? Having much distance in space from one end to the other.: Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below). This table is long but not very high. Travelling a great…
- English - Noun: long (plural longs) A long vowel . 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics, volume 2, page 60: In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts. A long syllable . A note formerly used in music , one half the length of a large , twice that of a breve . A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size…
- English - Verb: long (third-person singular simple present longs, present participle longing, simple past and past participle longed) (transitive) To take a long position in. 2004, Thomas S. Y. Ho with Sang Bin Lee and Sang-bin Yi, The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling, page 84: The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put. long (third-person singular simple…
- English - Adverb: long (comparative longer, superlative longest) Over a great distance in space . Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight. Over a great distance in space .: Over too great a distance , beyond the target. She hit her return long and lost the point. For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it). He slept all day long . I’ve waited long enough.…
- English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English long , lang , from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West German ic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”). Cognates Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), Yola lhaung , long (“long”), North Frisian long, lung , lüng (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), West Frisian lang (“long”),…