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long
v.
yearn, desire, wish for, crave; pine, miss someone or something
adv.
through a long period of time; for a long period of time; at a time far in the past; throughout
adj.
continuing over a great distance; having a great height; extended, prolonged; tedious; broad, comprehensive; far-reaching
n.
long period of time; long object; size for tall men
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Long
Long may refer to:
In measurements
- Long, characteristic of something of great length
- Long, characteristic of something of great duration
- Longa (music), note value in early music mensural notation
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Chinese dragon
Chinese dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and Chinese folklore. The dragons have many animal-like forms such as turtles, fish, and imaginary creatures, but they are most commonly depicted as snake-like with four legs. In yin and yang terminology, a dragon is yang and complements a yin fenghuang ("Chinese phoenix").
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Long/short equity
Long/short equity is an investment strategy generally associated with hedge funds, and more recently certain progressive traditional asset managers. It involves buying long equities that are expected to increase in value and selling short equities that are expected to decrease in value. This is different from the risk reversal strategies where investors will simultaneously buy a call option and sell a put option to simulate being long in a stock.
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Longitude
Longitude ( or , British also ), is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees and denoted by the Greek letter lambda (λ). Meridians (lines running from the North Pole to the South Pole) connect points with the same longitude. By convention, one of these, the Prime Meridian, which passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England, was allocated the position of zero degrees longitude. The longitude of other places is measured as the angle east or west from the Prime Meridian, ranging from 0° at the Prime Meridian to +180° eastward and −180° westward. Specifically, it is the angle between a plane containing the Prime Meridian and a plane containing the North Pole, South Pole and the location in question. (This forms a right-handed coordinate system with the z axis (right hand thumb) pointing from the Earth's center toward the North Pole and the x axis (right hand index finger) extending from Earth's center through the equator at the Prime Meridian.)
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Longtang
A longtang (弄堂 lòngtáng, Shanghainese: longdang) is a lane in Shanghai and, by extension, a community centred on a lanes or several interconnected lanes. It is sometimes called lilong (里弄); the latter name incorporates the -li suffix often used in the name of residential developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Shanghai longdang is loosely equivalent to the hutong of Beijing. As with the term hutong, the Shanghai longdang can either refers to the lanes that the houses face onto, or a group of houses connected by the lane.
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long
Noun
1. a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long"
(hypernym) long time, age, years
Verb
1. desire strongly or persistently
(synonym) hanker, yearn
(hypernym) desire, want
(hyponym) ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish
(derivation) longer, thirster, yearner
Adjective
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"
(antonym) short
(similar) agelong
(attribute) duration, length
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"
(antonym) short
(similar) elongate, elongated
(attribute) length
3. of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
(similar) tall
4. holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
(antonym) short
(classification) finance
5. of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot')
(antonym) short
(classification) phonetics
6. used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration
(similar) stressed
(classification) prosody, metrics
7. involving substantial risk; "long odds"
(similar) unsound
8. (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory"
(synonym) tenacious
(similar) retentive
9. planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
(synonym) farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted
(similar) provident
10. having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply"
(similar) abundant
Adverb
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
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long
adv.
a lot, very much
adj.
long, prolonged, elongated, long distance
long
nm.
long, long period of time; long object; size for tall men; in length
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long (de)
n.
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