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- Regno Unito//lɒŋ//
- //lɔːŋ//
Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
aggettivo
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Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
I need a long piece of wood.
It’s a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
How long was your newborn baby?
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.
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Having much distance in space from one end to the other. Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
This table is long but not very high.
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Having much distance in space from one end to the other. Travelling a great distance.
Smith hoofs a long ball up to Jones.
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informaleHaving much distance in space from one end to the other. Having a long penis.
My ex was very strong but not very long.
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Travelling or extending too great a distance in space. Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.
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Travelling or extending too great a distance in space. Going beyond the intended target.
That forehand was long. It landed two feet beyond the baseline.
The pass was long and was gathered by the opposing goalkeeper.
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Having great duration.
His speech was long and dull.
The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
I took a long look at the house, knowing it was for the last time.
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
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Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
It took us three long weeks to clear the stones from the field.
It'll be a long journey home for the travelling supporters after that 5-0 defeat.
What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady’s carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way.
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desuetoNot short; tall.
The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long, the short and the tall.
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Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
I’m long in DuPont.
I have a long position in DuPont.
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Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
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Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
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Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
But Campbell thus did ſhut vp all in ieſt, / Braue Knights and Ladies, certes ye doe wrong / To ſtirre vp ſtrife, when moſt vs needeth reſt, / That we may vs reſerue both freſh and ſtrong, / Againſt the Turneiment which is not long.
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gergoIn great supply; abundant.
I’m talkin’ ’bout… I’m talkin’ ’bout that long money.
Me and broke niggas, we don’t get along (Nah). Hair long (Long), money long (Yeah).
Never lie, money longer than Pinnochio.
Rent-a-cars we road run, money longer than train smoke.
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gergostupid; annoying; bullshit
[Verse 1: Sleeks]: Keep thinking about Ps that I need but it’s long. All these things that I've done in the streets got me on my knees trying to reason with God. B-B beefin’ is long but I might still greeze up a Don.
MOBEEN: I do love nature when it’s on television and David Attenborough’s presenting. I hate nature in real life! Smells like shite around here! Plants and (he waves a fly away) …plants and that. It’s so long!
DUSHANE: I’m stepping back from the roads now. All of that shit is long! And by next year, I want to be completely legit, then it’s just me, you and Tish.
Nah fuck that I don't like mixing my circles like that. Plus if some shit goes bad I gotta be in the middle it's all long
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gergoserious; deadly.
JAMIE: Yo, if I see you man round here again, it is long for you!
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Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
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Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
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Variante di taking a long timegergoClipping of taking a long time.
"Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone.
BOY: B, this is long for man, you know. B: Keep complaining. BOY: Fucking gemming it with these things (he continues collecting empty drinks cans).
INCHEZ: Man this is long! We’ve been in here for time!
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos Proto-Germanic *langaz Proto-West Germanic *lang Old English lang Middle English long English long 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”). Cognates Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), Yola lhaung, long (“long”), North Frisian long, lung, lüng (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), West Frisian lang (“long”), Cimbrian lång (“long”), Dutch, German, and Low German lang (“long”), Luxembourgish laang (“long”), Mòcheno lònk (“long”), Vilamovian łaong (“long”), Yiddish לאַנג (lang, “long”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lang (“long”), Faroese and Icelandic langur (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (laggs, “long”); also Latin longus (“long”) (whence French long (“long”), Italian lungo (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”)), Ancient Greek δολιχός (dolikhós, “long; wearisome”), Albanian gjatë (“long; tall”), Latvian ilgs (“long”), Lithuanian ilgas (“long”), Belarusian до́ўгі (dówhi, “long”), Bulgarian дъ́лъг (dắlăg, “long”), Czech dlúhý (“long”), Macedonian долг (dolg, “long”), Polish długi (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj, “lengthy, long”), до́лгий (dólgij, “long”), Serbo-Croatian ду̏г, dȕg (“long”), Slovak dlhý (“long”), Slovene dolg (“long”), Ukrainian до́вгий (dóvhyj, “long”), Ossetian даргъ (darǧ, “late”), Central Kurdish دێر (dêr), درەنگ (dreng, “late”), Northern Kurdish dereng (“late”), Persian دیر (dēr / dir, “late; long”), درنگ (derang, “delay”), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”) (whence Bengali দীর্ঘ (dirgho, “long; tall”), Dhivehi ދިގު (digu, “long, lengthy”), Kalasha driga, dríga (“long; tall”), Kholosi taɽgo (“long”), Khowar درونگ (drung, “long”), Hindi दीर्घ (dīrgh, “long; tall; weighty”), Nepali दिघो (digho, “stable”), Odia ଦୀର୍ଘ (dirgha, “long”), Sinhalese දිග (diga, “long”), Urdu دیرگھ (dīrgh, “long; tall; weighty”)), Kamkata-viri drëgeř, drëgëř, drëŋëň, dërëgeň (“long; tall”), Prasuni jigni (“long; tall”). The word shows the regular historical change of a to o before certain consonant clusters such as ng (compare with other examples in Middle and Modern English such as bond, song, throng, and wrong). The o-form may have also been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.
sostantivo
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A long vowel.
In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.
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A long syllable.
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A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
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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.
A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
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An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
Every uptick made the longs cheer.
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A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
Likewise, if borrowers prefer to sell short-maturity issues at the time lenders prefer to invest in longs, as is the case when interest rates are expected to fall, longer maturity issues will tend to yield less than shorter maturity issues.
"U.S. Treasury Market Structure", https://www.mfaalts.org/issue/u-s-treasury-market-structure/ Hedge funds are constrained in how much leverage they can utilize, in part because the futures contracts they are shorting against their Treasury longs have significant initial margin requirements.
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Variante di long vacationdesuetoClipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”).
“[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long.” “Last Long?” “Hem! last protracted vacation.”
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Variante di long bond paperEllipsis of long bond paper.
verbo
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To take a long position in.
The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.
avverbio
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Over a great distance in space.
Every golfer wants to hit the ball long and straight.
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Over a great distance in space. Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
She hit her return long and lost the point.
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For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
How long is it until the next bus arrives?
She has known us as long as you.
I’ve waited long enough.
He slept all day long.
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For a long time.
Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.
By eight o’clock, the food will be long gone.
I seldom stay long after class, but yesterday I spent the evening and long into the night.
Long live the Queen.
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raroFor a long time.
It’s an earth song,— And I’ve been waiting long for an earth song. It’s a spring song,— And I’ve been waiting long for a spring song.[…] I have been waiting long for this spring song.
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A long time (see usage notes).
Will this interview take long?
I haven’t got long to live.
They are in a hurry; they can’t wait for too long.
My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.
Etimologia
From Middle English longe, lange, from Old English longe, lange, from the adjective (see above).
verbo
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To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
She longed for him to come back.
The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.
Etimologia
From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to long for, yearn after, grieve for, be pained, lengthen, grow longer, summon, belong”), from Proto-West Germanic *langōn, from Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“to be easy, be quick, jump, move around, vary”). Cognate with German langen (“to reach, be sufficient”), Swedish langa (“to push, pass by hand”), Icelandic langa (“to want, desire”), Dutch, German verlangen (“to desire, want, long for”).
aggettivo
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arcaicoOn account of, because of.
I am of opinion, that in regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them.
Etimologia
From Middle English long, lang, an aphetic form of Middle English ilong, ylong, from Old English ġelong, ġelang (“along, belonging, depending, consequent”); the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.
verbo
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arcaicoTo be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long’d to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.
Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.
sostantivo
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Variante di longitudeAbbreviation of longitude.
Etimologia
Shortening of longitude.
verbo
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obsoletoTo belong.
Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges, And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d: From one that knew not what a King ſhould doe, To one that can commaund what longs there to: […]
Etimologia
From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to belong, pertain”), from Old English *lang, which is of uncertain origin yet related to Old English ġelang (“dependent, attainable, present, belonging, consequent”), Old Saxon gilang (“ready, available”).
Forme
- plurale
- longs
- comparativo
- longer, more long
- superlativo
- longest, most long
- passato
- longed
- participio passato
- longed
- participio presente
- longing
- 3ª persona singolare
- longs
long · Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
Long · A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a…long-distance · Over a great length or distance.long-range · Operating, or capable of operating, over a great distance.