'Long' definitions:

Definition of 'long'

From: WordNet
adverb
For an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long overdue"; "something long hoped for"; "his name has long been forgotten"; "talked all night long"; "how long will you be gone?"; "arrived long before he was expected"; "it is long after your bedtime"
adverb
For an extended distance
adjective
Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified; "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long" [ant: short]
adjective
Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long" [ant: short]
adjective
Of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
adjective
Good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive]
adjective
Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" [ant: short]
adjective
(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long" [ant: short]
adjective
Involving substantial risk; "long odds"
adjective
Planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" [syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted]
adjective
Having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"
verb
Desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, long, yearn]

Definition of 'Long'

From: GCIDE
  • Long \Long\, a. [Compar. Longer; superl. Longest.] [AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. l[*a]ng, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus. [root]125. Cf. Length, Ling a fish, Linger, Lunge, Purloin.]
  • 1. Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. [1913 Webster]
  • The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Having a length of the specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Far-reaching; extensive. " Long views." --Burke. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 22, 30. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Finance & Com.) Having a supply of stocks or goods; prepared for, or depending for a profit upon, advance in prices; as, long of cotton. Hence, the phrases: to be, or go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the market, to hold products or securities for a rise in price, esp. when bought on a margin. Contrasted to short. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned, long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • In the long run, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually.
  • Long clam (Zool.), the common clam (Mya arenaria) of the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also soft-shell clam and long-neck clam. See Mya.
  • Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality.
  • Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending below the feet.
  • Long division. (Math.) See Division.
  • Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen.
  • Long home, the grave.
  • Long measure, Long meter. See under Measure, Meter.
  • Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653.
  • Long price, the full retail price.
  • Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the Orchis mascula. --Dr. Prior.
  • Long suit (a) (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. --R. A. Proctor. (b) One's most important resource or source of strength; as, as an entertainer, her voice was her long suit.
  • Long tom. (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel. (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western U.S.] (c) (Zool.) The long-tailed titmouse.
  • Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed.
  • Of long, a long time. [Obs.] --Fairfax.
  • To be long of the market, or To go long of the market, To be on the long side of the market, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to short in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See Short.
  • To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Long'

From: GCIDE
  • Long \Long\, prep. [Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d Along.] By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See {Along of}, under 3d Along. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Long'

From: GCIDE
  • Long \Long\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Longed; p. pr. & vb. n. Longing.] [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang long. See Long, a.]
  • 1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by for or after. [1913 Webster]
  • I long to see you. --Rom. i. 11. [1913 Webster]
  • I have longed after thy precepts. --Ps. cxix. 40. [1913 Webster]
  • I have longed for thy salvation. --Ps. cxix. 174. [1913 Webster]
  • Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • The labor which that longeth unto me. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Long'

From: GCIDE
  • Long \Long\, n.
  • 1. (Mus.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Phonetics) A long sound, syllable, or vowel. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Long'

From: GCIDE
  • Long \Long\, adv. [AS. lance.]
  • 1. To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To a great extent in time; during a long time. [1913 Webster]
  • They that tarry long at the wine. --Prov. xxiii. 30. [1913 Webster]
  • When the trumpet soundeth long. --Ex. xix. 13. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Through the whole extent or duration. [1913 Webster]
  • The bird of dawning singeth all night long. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone? [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'long'

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Long, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Long, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000) :
363
Housing Units (2000) :
140
Land area (2000) :
7.647521 sq. miles (19.806988 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
7.647521 sq. miles (19.806988 sq. km)
FIPS code :
43900
Located within :
Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location :
35.499104 N, 94.563038 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Long -- U.S. County in Georgia

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Long -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000) :
10304
Housing Units (2000) :
4232
Land area (2000) :
400.919002 sq. miles (1038.375404 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
2.574807 sq. miles (6.668719 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
403.493809 sq. miles (1045.044123 sq. km)
Located within :
Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location :
31.764099 N, 81.763179 W

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