long: significato e definizioni

Extending or traveling a relatively great distance.

Having relatively great height; tall.

Having the greater length of two or the greatest length of several: the long edge of the door.

Of relatively great duration: a long time.

Of a specified linear extent or duration: a mile long; an hour long.

Made up of many members or items: a long shopping list.

Extending beyond an average or standard: a long game.

Extending or landing beyond a given boundary, limit, or goal: Her first serve was long.

Tediously protracted; lengthy: a long speech.

Concerned with distant issues; far-reaching: took a long view of the geopolitical issues.

Involving substantial chance; risky: long odds.

Having an abundance or excess of: "politicians whose résumés are long on competence” ( Margaret Garrard Warner).

Having a holding of a commodity or security in expectation of a rise in price: long on soybeans.

Linguistics Having a comparatively great duration. Used of a vowel or consonant.

Grammar Of, relating to, or being the English speech sounds (ā, ē, ī, ō, o͞o) that are tense vowels or diphthongs.

Stressed or accented. Used of a syllable in accentual prosody.

Being of relatively great duration. Used of a syllable in quantitative prosody.

During or for an extended period of time: The promotion was long due.

At or to a considerable distance; far: She walked long past the end of the trail.

Beyond a given boundary, limit, or goal: hit the return long.

For or throughout a specified period: They talked all night long.

At a point of time distant from that referred to: That event took place long before we were born.

Into or in a long position, as of a commodity market.

A long time: This won't take long.

Linguistics A long syllable, vowel, or consonant.