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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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
    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: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
       [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant:
       forgetful, short, unretentive]
    5: holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in
       prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" [ant:
       short]
    6: (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration;
       "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat',
       `boot' are long" [ant: short]
    7: involving substantial risk; "long odds"
    8: planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required
       farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical
       issues" [syn: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted,
       foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted]
    9: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on
       brains"; "in long supply"
    v 1: desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, long,
         yearn]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Long \Long\, a. [Compar. Longer; superl. Longest.] [AS.
   long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr,
   Sw. l[*a]ng, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus. [root]125.
   Cf. Length, Ling a fish, Linger, Lunge, Purloin.]
   1. 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.
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   2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a
      considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series
      of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a
      long book.
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   3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration;
      lingering; as, long hours of watching.
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   4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in
      time; far away.
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            The we may us reserve both fresh and strong
            Against the tournament, which is not long.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   5. Having a length of the specified measure; of a specified
      length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that
      is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.
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   6. Far-reaching; extensive. " Long views." --Burke.
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   7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in
      utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short,
      a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 22, 30.
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   8. (Finance & Com.) 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. Contrasted to
      short.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound
         adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as,
         long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned,
         long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded,
         etc.
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   In the long run, in the whole course of things taken
      together; in the ultimate result; eventually.

   Long clam (Zool.), the common clam (Mya arenaria) of the
      Northern United States and Canada; -- called also
      soft-shell clam and long-neck clam. See Mya.

   Long cloth, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality.

   Long clothes, clothes worn by a young infant, extending
      below the feet.

   Long division. (Math.) See Division.

   Long dozen, one more than a dozen; thirteen.

   Long home, the grave.

   Long measure, Long meter. See under Measure, Meter.
      

   Long Parliament (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which
      assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell,
      April 20, 1653.

   Long price, the full retail price.

   Long purple (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed
      to be the Orchis mascula. --Dr. Prior.

   Long suit
      (a) (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more
          than three cards. --R. A. Proctor.
      (b) One's most important resource or source of strength;
          as, as an entertainer, her voice was her long suit.

   Long tom.
      (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of
          a vessel.
      (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western
          U.S.]
      (c) (Zool.) The long-tailed titmouse.

   Long wall (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam
      is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work
      progresses, except where passages are needed.

   Of long, a long time. [Obs.] --Fairfax.

   To be long of the market, or To go long of the market,
   To be on the long side of the market, etc. (Stock
      Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a
      contract under which one can demand stock on or before a
      certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to short
      in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short,
      etc. [Cant] See Short.

   To have a long head, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Long \Long\, adv. [AS. lance.]
   1. To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line.
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   2. To a great extent in time; during a long time.
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            They that tarry long at the wine.     --Prov. xxiii.
                                                  30.
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            When the trumpet soundeth long.       --Ex. xix. 13.
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   3. At a point of duration far distant, either prior or
      posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long
      before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.
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   4. Through the whole extent or duration.
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            The bird of dawning singeth all night long. --Shak.
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   5. Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in
      question; as, how long will you be gone?
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Long \Long\, n.
   1. (Mus.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length
      of a large, twice that of a breve.
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   2. (Phonetics) A long sound, syllable, or vowel.
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   3. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the
      phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and
      substance of it. --Addison.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Long \Long\, prep. [Abbreviated fr. along. See 3d Along.]
   By means of; by the fault of; because of. [Obs.] See Along
   of, under 3d Along.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Long \Long\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Longed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Longing.] [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch
   out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang
   long. See Long, a.]
   1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for
      something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or
      by for or after.
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            I long to see you.                    --Rom. i. 11.
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            I have longed after thy precepts.     --Ps. cxix.
                                                  40.
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            I have longed for thy salvation.      --Ps. cxix.
                                                  174.
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            Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with
            fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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   2. To belong; -- used with to, unto, or for. [Obs.]
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            The labor which that longeth unto me. --Chaucer.
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7. U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
Long -- U.S. County in Georgia
   Population (2000):    10304
   Housing Units (2000): 4232
   Land area (2000):     400.919002 sq. miles (1038.375404 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    2.574807 sq. miles (6.668719 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    403.493809 sq. miles (1045.044123 sq. km)
   Located within:       Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
   Location:             31.764099 N, 81.763179 W
   Headwords:
    Long
    Long, GA
    Long County
    Long County, GA


8. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Long, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
   Population (2000):    363
   Housing Units (2000): 140
   Land area (2000):     7.647521 sq. miles (19.806988 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    7.647521 sq. miles (19.806988 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            43900
   Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
   Location:             35.499104 N, 94.563038 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):    
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Long, OK
    Long


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