How to pronounce “long”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
• Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.
• Having great duration.
• Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
• (UK, Ireland, dated) Not short; tall.
• (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
• (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
• (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
• Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
• (African-American Vernacular, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
• (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
• (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
• (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
• (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
• (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
• [Noun]
• (linguistics) A long vowel.
• (prosody) A long syllable.
• (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
• (programming) 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.
• (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
• (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
• (Oxbridge, dated) Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”).
• [Verb]
• (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
• [Adverb]
• (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
• For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
• (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
• (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
• A long time (see usage notes).

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