Long
- Proper noun. (surname, from Middle English) Originally a nickname for a tall man.
- Adjective. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (italbrac, usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below) .
- Adjective. Having great duration.
- Adjective. (British, dialect) Not short; tall.
- Adjective. (finance) possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or financial instruments with prices positively correlated with them.
- Adjective. (cricket) of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Adverb. Over a great distance in space.
- Adverb. For a particular duration.
- Adverb. For a long duration..
- Noun. (linguistics) A long vowel.
- Noun. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int or a short and half of a long long. A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
- Noun. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
- Verb. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
- Verb. (intransitive) To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
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