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ALL meanings of long

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  • adjective long seeming to occupy a greater time than is really so 0
  • adjective long intense or thorough (esp in the phrase a long look) 0
  • adjective long (of drinks) containing a large quantity of nonalcoholic beverage 0
  • adjective long (of a garment) reaching to the wearer's ankles 0
  • adjective long plentifully supplied or endowed (with) 0
  • adjective long of relatively considerable duration 0
  • adjective long classified as long, as distinguished from the quality of other vowels 0
  • adjective long (in popular usage) denoting the qualities of the five English vowels in such words as mate, mete, mite, moat, moot, and mute 0
  • adjective long from end to end; lengthwise 0
  • adjective long unlikely to win, happen, succeed, etc 0
  • adjective long denoting a vowel of relatively great duration or (esp in classical verse) followed by more than one consonant 0
  • adjective long denoting a syllable containing such a vowel 0
  • adjective long (in verse that is not quantitative) carrying the emphasis or ictus 0
  • adjective long having or characterized by large holdings of securities or commodities in anticipation of rising prices 0
  • adjective long (of a fielding position) near the boundary 0
  • adjective long (of people) tall and slender 0
  • adverb long for a certain time or period 0
  • adverb long for or during an extensive period of time 0
  • adverb long at a distant time; quite a bit of time 0
  • adverb long into a position with more security or commodity holdings than are required by sale contracts and therefore dependent on rising prices for profit 0
  • noun long a long time (esp in the phrase for long) 0
  • noun long a relatively long thing, such as a signal in Morse code 0
  • noun long a clothing size for tall people, esp in trousers 0
  • noun long a long vowel or syllable 0
  • noun long a person with large holdings of a security or commodity in expectation of a rise in its price; bull 0
  • noun long a note common in medieval music but now obsolete, having the time value of two breves 0
  • verb long to have a strong desire 0
  • verb long to belong, appertain, or be appropriate 0
  • abbreviation LONG longitude 0
  • noun long Crawford Williamson. 1815–78, US surgeon. He was the first to use ether as an anaesthetic 0
  • noun long ˈHuey (Pierce) (ˈhjui ) ; hyo̅oˈē) 1893-1935; U.S. political leader: assassinated 0
  • adjective long measuring much from end to end in space or from beginning to end in time; not short or brief 0
  • adjective long measured from end to end rather than from side to side 0
  • adjective long of a specified extent in length 0
  • adjective long of greater than usual or standard length, height, quantity, etc. 0
  • adjective long containing many items or members 0
  • adjective long overextended in length 0
  • adjective long taking too much time; tedious; slow 0
  • adjective long extending to what is distant in space or time; far-reaching 0
  • adjective long large; big 0
  • adjective long having an abundance of 0
  • adjective long holding a commodity or security in anticipation of a rise in price 0
  • adjective long lasting for a relatively long time 0
  • adjective long diphthongized 0
  • adjective long requiring a relatively long time to pronounce 0
  • adjective long stressed 0
  • adverb long for the duration of; from the beginning to the end 0
  • adverb long at a much earlier or a much later time than the time indicated; remotely 0
  • noun long a variation of clothing size longer than the average for that size 0
  • noun long long pants 0
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