A Quick and Simple Dictionary

long

1. Proper noun.  (surname, from Middle English) Originally a nickname for a tall man.
2. 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) .
3. Adjective.  Having great duration.
4. Adjective.  (British, dialect) Not short; tall.
5. Adjective.  (finance) possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or financial instruments with prices positively correlated with them.
6. Adjective.  (cricket) of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
7. Adverb.  Over a great distance in space.
8. Adverb.  For a particular duration.
9. Adverb.  For a long duration..
10. Noun.  (linguistics) A long vowel.
11. 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.
12. Noun.  (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
13. Verb.  (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
14. Verb.  (intransitive) To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).