long

Significat (anglès)

Adj

1. Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
2. Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
3. (informal) Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
4. Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
5. Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
6. Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
7. Having great duration.
8. Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
9. Not short; tall.
10. Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
11. Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
12. Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
13. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
14. (slang) In great supply; abundant.
15. (slang) Clipping of taking a long time.
16. (slang) stupid; annoying; bullshit
17. (slang) serious; deadly.

Noun

1. A long vowel.
2. A long syllable.
3. A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
4. 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.
5. An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
6. A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
7. Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”).

Verb

To take a long position in.

Adv

1. Over a great distance in space.
2. Over a great distance in space.
3. For a particular duration.
4. For a long time.
5. For a long time.
6. A long time (see usage notes).

Verb

To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).

Verb

To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.

Noun

Abbreviation of longitude.

Verb

To belong.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/lɒŋ/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), French long, Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), до́лго (dólgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).
The word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond, song, throng, wrong), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.

Sents

He was going too fast by a long shot .

I have been waiting for you here at this oasis for a long time .

Not long afterwards the group disbanded .

As long as there is water in a cooking pot , the temperature cannot rise above a hundred degrees Celsius .

It has long attracted the best up-and-coming bluegrass musicians .