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What does long mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word long? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. 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).
  2. Having great duration.
  3. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
  4. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
  5. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
  6. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
  7. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
  8. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
Adverb
  1. Over a great distance in space.
  2. For a particular duration.
  3. For a long duration.
Noun
  1. (linguistics) A long vowel.
  2. (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.
  3. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
  4. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
Verb
  1. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
Verb
  1. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
Adjective
  1. (archaic) On account of, because of.
Verb
  1. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
Noun
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