long
/lɑŋ/ noun C2- A long vowel.
- A long syllable.
- A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long. · A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
- An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares. · Every uptick made the longs cheer.
- A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
Plural longs
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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His thin but wiry legs were arrayed in a pair of richly embroidered clocked stockings, evidently of English manufacture, while from his three-cornered hat depended a long streaming knot of white and blue ribbons.
Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.
He was gray also, from his long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn, and rarely spoke.
Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
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