'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
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
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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a mile long,
- ache,
- ache for,
- ache to,
- aeon,
- age,
- ages,
- aim,
- and night,
- aspire,
- be dying for,
- be dying to,
- be hurting for,
- big,
- blue moon,
- bull,
- bull account,
- burn to,
- century,
- choose to,
- clamor for,
- colossal,
- covet,
- crave,
- cry for,
- day after day,
- de longue haleine,
- dearly love to,
- desire,
- diffuse,
- diffusive,
- dragging,
- drawn-out,
- dream,
- dream of,
- elongate,
- elongated,
- endless,
- enduringly,
- eternity,
- extended,
- extensive,
- fancy,
- far-flung,
- far-reaching,
- fargoing,
- filled out,
- flatulent,
- for an age,
- for life,
- for long,
- gangling,
- gangly,
- gape for,
- giant,
- gigantic,
- great,
- hanker,
- hone for,
- hope for,
- hour after hour,
- hunger,
- interminable,
- interminably,
- itch,
- itch for,
- itch to,
- languish for,
- languishing,
- lank,
- lanky,
- large,
- lasting,
- leggy,
- lengthened,
- lengthy,
- like to,
- lingering,
- long account,
- long ago,
- long for,
- long interest,
- long side,
- long since,
- long time,
- long to,
- long while,
- long-continuing,
- long-drawn,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-legged,
- long-pending,
- long-spun,
- long-winded,
- longiloquent,
- longish,
- longs,
- longsome,
- love to,
- lust,
- lust for,
- marathon,
- miss,
- month after month,
- month of Sundays,
- morning,
- no end of,
- noon,
- out,
- outstretched,
- overlong,
- padded,
- pant for,
- persistently,
- pine,
- pine for,
- prolix,
- prolonged,
- protracted,
- protractedly,
- rangy,
- right smart spell,
- sesquipedal,
- sesquipedalian,
- sigh,
- sigh for,
- since time began,
- spoil for,
- spun-out,
- statuesque,
- stretched-out,
- sustained,
- talkative,
- tall,
- the livelong day,
- thirst,
- thirst for,
- till doomsday,
- time immemorial,
- undyingly,
- unendingly,
- unrelenting,
- verbose,
- want,
- want to,
- weary for,
- windy,
- wish,
- wish for,
- wish to,
- without end,
- wordy,
- year after year,
- yearn,
- yearn for,
- years,
- years on end,
- yen,
- yen for
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
Words containing 'Long'
- Longe,
- Longed,
- Longing,
- Longingly,
- Longly,
- Longness,
- Of long,
- as long as,
- before long,
- so long,
- As broad as long,
- At long running,
- At the long run,
- By a long chalk,
- Ere long,
- In the long run,
- Long Beach,
- Long Beach, IN,
- Long Branch,
- Long County,
- Long Creek,
- Long Creek, OR,
- Long Grove,
- Long Hill,
- Long Island,
- Long Lake,
- Long Neck,
- Long Parliament,
- Long Pine,
- Long Point,
- Long Prairie,
- Long Valley,
- Long View,
- Long clam,
- Long cloth,
- Long clothes,
- Long division,
- Long dozen,
- Long home,
- Long measure,
- Long meter,
- Long moss,
- Long pepper,
- Long price,
- Long primer,
- Long purple,
- Long purse,
- Long roll,
- Long sea,
- Long suit,
- Long tom,
- Long wall,
- Long, GA,
- Long, OK,
- The long and the short,
- To be long of the market,
- To have a long head,
- all day long,
- at long last,
- by a long shot,
- long ago,
- long bone,
- long chain,
- long distance,
- long established,
- long face,
- long faced,
- long fluke,
- long fly,
- long haul,
- long horse,
- long hundred,
- long hundredweight,
- long iron,
- long johns,
- long jump,
- long lasting,
- long lived,
- long pants,
- long pennant,
- long pillow,
- long plane,
- long range,
- long run,
- long shot,
- long since,
- long sleeve,
- long slip,
- long standing,
- long suffering,
- long term,
- long time,
- long ton,
- long trousers,
- long underwear,
- long wave,
- long whist,
- long winded,
- longed-for,
- not by a long sight,
- tai long,
- Groton Long Point,
- Long Beach, CA,
- Long Beach, MN,
- Long Beach, MS,
- Long Beach, NY,
- Long Beach, WA,
- Long Branch, NJ,
- Long Branch, PA,
- Long County, GA,
- Long Creek, IL,
- Long Grove, IA,
- Long Grove, IL,
- Long Hill, CT,
- Long Island, KS,
- Long Lake, IL,
- Long Lake, MN,
- Long Lake, SD,
- Long Neck, DE,
- Long Pine, NE,
- Long Point, IL,
- Long Prairie, MN,
- Long Valley, NJ,
- Long View, NC,
- Long-armed,
- Long-breathed,
- Long-drawn,
- Long-headedness,
- Long-horned,
- Long-lived,
- Long-sight,
- Long-sighted,
- Long-sightedness,
- Long-stop,
- Long-sufferance,
- Long-suffering,
- Long-tongue,
- Long-tongued,
- Long-waisted,
- Long-winded,
- Long-windedness,
- To be on the long side of the market,
- To draw a long bow,
- To go long of the market,
- West Long Branch,
- go a long way,
- long beech fern,
- long island sound,
- long saphenous vein,
- long-acting,
- long-ago,
- long-beard,
- long-bodied,
- long-branched,
- long-chain,
- long-dated,
- long-distance,
- long-drawn-out,
- long-faced,
- long-familiar,
- long-haired,
- long-handled,
- long-headed,
- long-jawed,
- long-lasting,
- long-legged,
- long-legs,
- long-life,
- long-play,
- long-playing,
- long-range,
- long-run,
- long-shanked,
- long-snouted,
- long-spurred,
- long-stalked,
- long-standing,
- long-staple,
- long-term,
- long-wearing,
- long-windedly,
- long-wool,
- long-wooled,
- year-long,
- 00-database-long,
- 00-gcide-long,
- Groton Long Point, CT,
- Long-boned shad,
- Long-legged plover,
- Paramount-Long Meadow,
- West Long Branch, NJ,
- long-billed dowitcher,
- long-chain molecule,
- long-clawed prawn,
- long-distance call,
- long-distance runner,
- long-eared bat,
- long-eared owl,
- long-fin tunny,
- long-handled spade,
- long-head coneflower,
- long-horned beetle,
- long-horned grasshopper,
- long-line fishing,
- long-neck clam,
- long-spurred violet,
- long-staple cotton,
- long-tailed cat,
- long-tailed porcupine,
- long-tailed weasel,
- long-term memory,
- since a long time ago,
- yard-long bean,
- Calvert Beach-Long Beach,
- Paramount-Long Meadow, MD,
- long-billed marsh wren,
- Calvert Beach-Long Beach, MD,
- ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system