Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word LONG

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Definitions of LONG

1. Having great duration.
2. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
3. For a particular duration.
4. Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring or tedious or tiring.
5. Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location, as weapons fire or landing aircraft.
6. 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).
7. (British, dialect) Not short; tall.
8. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
9. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
10. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.
11. (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
12. (AAVE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
13. (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
14. (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
15. (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
16. (linguistics) A long vowel.
17. (prosody) A long syllable.
18. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
19. (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.
20. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
21. (finance) An investor having a long position in a security.
22. (finance) A long-term investment.
23. (Oxbridge, dated) Clipping of long vacation ("summer vacation").
24. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
25. (chiefly, sports) Over a great distance in space.
26. For a lengthy duration (see usage notes).
27. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
28. (archaic) On account of, because of.
29. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
30. Abbreviation of longitude.
31. (obsolete) To belong.
32. A nicknames surname from nicknames. Originally a nickname for a tall man.
33. A unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, USA.
34. A commune in, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France.
35. (countable) A Chinese surname from Chinese.
36. A county in Baoji, Shaanxi, China.

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Examples of Using LONG in a Sentence

• Aberdeen Channel, a channel between Ap Lei Chau (Aberdeen Island) and Nam Long Shan on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.
• His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery and preoccupation with nature and memory.
• It eats insects and their larvae, mainly termites; one aardwolf can lap up as many as 300,000 termites during a single night using its long, sticky tongue.
• The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations.
• In law, an abstract is a brief statement that contains the most important points of a long legal document or of several related legal papers.
• The once-popular theory attributing these similarities to a common ancestry has long been rejected by most comparative linguists in favor of language contact, although it continues to be supported by a small but stable scholarly minority.
• Where there is ambiguity, long and short alpha are sometimes written with a macron and breve today:.
• An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber (or nerve fibre: see spelling differences) is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, in vertebrates, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials away from the nerve cell body.
• Within an expression containing two or more occurrences in a row of the same associative operator, the order in which the operations are performed does not matter as long as the sequence of the operands is not changed.
• Ancylopoda is a group of browsing, herbivorous, mammals in the Perissodactyla that show long, curved and cleft claws.
• Aberdeen has a long, sandy coastline and features an oceanic climate, with cool summers and mild, rainy winters.
• Although the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion years (especially in geology, cosmology and astronomy), its more common usage is for any long, indefinite period.
• 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
• The Cobble Hill Tunnel (also known as the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel) is an abandoned Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, New York City, running through the neighborhoods of Downtown Brooklyn and Cobble Hill.
• With him began the long period of ascendancy of the prestigious Talmudic academies in Babylonia around the year 220.
• Since producing low pitches usually requires a long air column or string, and for stringed instruments, a large hollow body, the string and wind bass instruments are usually the largest instruments in their families or instrument classes.
• Its name comes from a long running and successful club night held in Hastings and also at Heaven nightclub, London – both also called Bedrock.
• Brainfuck is an example of a so-called Turing tarpit: it can be used to write any program, but it is not practical to do so because it provides so little abstraction that the programs get very long or complicated.
• They have stout bodies with large heads, long chisel-like incisors, brown or gray fur, hand-like front feet, webbed back feet, and tails that are flat and scaly.
• Common characteristics of modern bears include large bodies with stocky legs, long snouts, small rounded ears, shaggy hair, plantigrade paws with five nonretractile claws, and short tails.

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