Long

1. (adj) Having much distance in space from one end to the other. 2. (adj) Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below). 3. (adj) Travelling a great distance. 4. (adj) (informal) Having a long penis. 5. (adj) Travelling or extending too great a distance in space. 6. (adj) (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location. 7. (adj) (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target. 8. (adj) Having great duration. 9. (adj) Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc. 10. (adj) (UK, Ireland, dated) Not short; tall. 11. (adj) (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value. 12. (adj) (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position). 13. (adj) (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager. 14. (adj) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. 15. (adj) (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant. 16. (adj) (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit 17. (adj) (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly. 18. (adj) (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in. 19. (adj) (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in. 20. (n) (linguistics) A long vowel. 21. (n) (prosody) A long syllable. 22. (n) (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. 23. (n) (programming) 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. 24. (n) (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares. 25. (n) (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond. 26. (v) (transitive, finance) To take a long position in. 27. (adv) (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space. 28. (adv) Over too great a distance, beyond the target. 29. (adv) For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it). 30. (adv) (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time. 31. (adv) A long time (see usage notes). 32. (v) (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true). 33. (adv) (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time. 34. (adj) (archaic) On account of, because of. 35. (v) (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. 36. (v) (obsolete) To belong. 37. (n) A surname transferred from the nickname. Originally a nickname for a tall man. 38. (n) (countable) A surname from Chinese. 39. (n) An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Washington, United States. 40. (n) A commune in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France. 41. (n) A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China. 42. (n) Abbreviation of longitude. [(geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.] 43. (adj) (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time. 44. (n) (Oxbridge, dated) Clipping of long vacation (“summer vacation”). [(Oxbridge) The university break between the end of one academic year in June and the start of the next in October.]