long

Having much distance in space from one end to the other.

I need a long piece of wood.

It’s a long way from the Earth to the Moon.

Having much distance in space from one end to the other.

This table is long but not very high.

Having much distance in space from one end to the other.

Smith hoofs a long ball up to Jones.

Having much distance in space from one end to the other.

My ex was very strong but not very long.

Travelling or extending too great a distance in space.

The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.

Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship’s magazine.

A long vowel.

In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.

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.

To take a long position in.

The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.