longing

From Middle English longynge, langynge, langand, from Old English langiende, from Proto-Germanic *langōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), equivalent to long + -ing (present participle ending).

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<tabs><tab title="Adj"><ol><li>Having much distance in space from one end to the other.</li><li>Having much distance in space from one end to the other.</li><li>(informal) Having much distance in space from one end to the other.</li><li>Having much distance in space from one end to the other.</li><li>Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.</li><li>Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.</li><li>Having great duration.</li><li>Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.</li><li>Not short; tall.</li><li>Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.</li><li>Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).</li><li>Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.</li><li>Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.</li><li>(slang) In great supply; abundant.</li><li>(slang) Clipping of taking a long time.</li><li>(slang) stupid; annoying; bullshit</li><li>(slang) serious; deadly.</li></ol></tab><tab title="Noun"><ol><li>A long vowel.</li><li>A long syllable.</li><li>A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.</li><li>A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.</li><li>An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.</li><li>A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.</li><li>Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”).</li></ol></tab><tab title="Verb">To take a long position in.</tab><tab title="Adv"><ol><li>Over a great distance in space.</li><li>Over a great distance in space.</li><li>For a particular duration.</li><li>For a long time.</li><li>For a long time.</li><li>A long time (see usage notes).</li></ol></tab><tab title="Verb">To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).</tab><tab title="Verb">To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.</tab><tab title="Noun">Abbreviation of longitude.</tab><tab title="Verb">To belong.</tab></tabs>

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