long (
http://definr.com/long)
adj 1: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively
great or greater than average duration or passage of
time or a duration as specified; ; "a long life"; "a
long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long
friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
[ant:
short]
2: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than
average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a
long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long
words"; "ten miles long" [ant:
short]
3: of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"-
Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
4: (finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation
of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position
in gold" [ant:
short]
5: (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of
relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds
in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot') [ant:
short]
6: (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of
relatively long duration
7: involving substantial risk; "long odds"
8: (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long
memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory" [syn:
tenacious]
9: planning prudently for the future; "large goals that
required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the
geopolitical issues" [syn:
farseeing,
farsighted,
foresighted,
foresightful,
longsighted]
10: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on
brains"; "in long supply"
n : a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they
haven't been gone long"
adv 1: for an extended time or at a distant time; "a promotion long
overdue"; "something long hoped for"; "his name has
long been forgotten"; "talked all night long"; "how
long will you be gone?"; "arrived long before he was
expected"; "it is long after your bedtime"
2: for an extended distance
v 1: desire strongly or persistently [syn:
hanker,
yearn]
2: have a yen for [syn:
ache,
yearn,
yen,
pine,
languish]