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English to English adjective
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primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified |  | Example: a long life
a long boring speech
a long time
a long friendship
a long game
long ago
an hour long
source: wordnet30
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primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified | | Example: a long road
a long distance
contained many long words
ten miles long
source: wordnet30
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good at remembering | | Example: a retentive mind
tenacious memory
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holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices | | Example: is long on coffee
a long position in gold
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(of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration | | Example: the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long
source: wordnet30
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Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide. | | source: webster1913
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Having a supply of stocks or goods; prepared for, or depending for a profit upon, advance in prices; as, long of cotton. Hence, the phrases: to be, or go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the market, to hold products or securities for a rise in price, esp. when bought on a margin. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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of relatively great height | | Example: a race of long gaunt men
looked out the long French windows
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involving substantial risk | | Example: long odds
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planning prudently for the future | | Example: large goals that required farsighted policies
took a long view of the geopolitical issues
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having or being more than normal or necessary: | | Example: long on brains
in long supply
source: wordnet30 adverb
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for an extended time or at a distant time | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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for an extended distance | | source: wordnet30
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To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line. | | source: webster1913 noun
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A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. | | source: webster1913 preposition
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By means of; by the fault of; because of. | | source: webster1913 verb
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desire strongly or persistently | | source: wordnet30
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To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for. | | source: webster1913 Indonesian to Indonesian noun source: kbbi3
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