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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | long | Primarily temporal sense |
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| 2 | long | Primarily spatial sense | |
| 3 | long | Of relatively great height | |
| 4 | long, retentive, recollective, tenacious | Good at remembering | |
| 5 | long | Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices | |
| 6 | long | (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration | |
| 7 | long | Involving substantial risk | |
| 8 | long, farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, longsighted | Planning prudently for the future | |
| 9 | long | Having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains" | |
| ADVERB | 1 | long | For an extended time or at a distant time |
| 2 | long | For an extended distance | |
| VERB | 1 | long, hanker, yearn | Desire strongly or persistently |
| Sounds | lao'ng |
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| Rhymes | along, Armstrong, belong, and 28 more rhymes in aong... |
| Meaning | Primarily temporal sense. Being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified. |
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| Examples | "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long" |
| Contrary | short |
| Similar | agelong; bimestrial; daylong; drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted; durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived; eight-day; endless, eternal, interminable; hourlong; lifelong, womb-to-tomb; long-acting; long-dated; longish; long-life; longitudinal; long-range; long-run, long-term, semipermanent; longstanding; monthlong; nightlong, all-night, overnight; perennial; time-consuming; weeklong, seven-day; yearlong |
| Attribute of | duration, length |
| Nouns | longness |
| Adverbs | longest; longer |
| Meaning | Primarily spatial sense. Of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified. |
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| Examples | "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long" |
| Contrary | short |
| Similar | elongate, elongated; elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged; extendible, extendable; far; lank; long-handled, pole-handled; long-range; long-snouted; long-staple; long-wool, long-wooled; oblong; polysyllabic, sesquipedalian; stretch |
| Attribute of | length |
| Nouns | longness |
| Meaning | Of relatively great height. |
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| Examples | "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows" |
| Similar to | tall |
| Nouns | longness |
| Meaning | Good at remembering. |
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| Synonyms | retentive, recollective, tenacious |
| Contrary | unretentive, forgetful, short |
| See also | mindful, aware |
| Meaning | Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices. |
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| Examples | "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" |
| Contrary | short |
| Category | finance |
| Meaning | (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration. |
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| Examples | " the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long" |
| Contrary | short |
| Category | phonetics |
| Meaning | Involving substantial risk. |
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| Examples | "long odds" |
| Similar to | unsound |
| Meaning | Planning prudently for the future. |
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| Examples | "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" |
| Synonyms | farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, longsighted |
| Similar to | provident |
| Meaning | Having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains". |
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| Examples | "in long supply" |
| Similar to | abundant |
| Meaning | For an extended time or at a distant time. |
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| Examples | "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" |
| Meaning | For an extended distance. |
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| Meaning | Desire strongly or persistently. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
| Model | They long to move |
| Synonyms | hanker, yearn |
| Broader | desire, want |
| Narrower | ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish |
| Nouns | longing; longer |
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