| long | a comparatively long time |
|---|---|
| long | have a yen for |
| long | desire strongly or persistently |
| long | having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains" |
| long | primarily spatial sense |
| long | primarily temporal sense |
| long | (phonetics) of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot') |
| long | (finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices |
| long | planning prudently for the future |
| long | (of memory) having greater than average range |
| long | involving substantial risk |
| long | (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration |