Digested and Long

verb

• Convert food into absorbable substances.
  • usage: "I cannot digest milk products"
  • synonyms: digest
• Arrange and integrate in the mind.
  • usage: "I cannot digest all this information"
  • synonyms: digest
• Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.
  • usage: "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
  • synonyms: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
• Become assimilated into the body.
  • usage: "Protein digests in a few hours"
  • synonyms: digest
• Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing.
  • usage: "the government digested the entire law into a code"
  • synonyms: digest
• Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture.
  • synonyms: digest
• Make more concise.
  • usage: "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
  • synonyms: digest, condense, concentrate
• Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture.
  • synonyms: digest

verb

• Desire strongly or persistently.
  • synonyms: hanker, yearn

adjective

• Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified.
  • usage: "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long"
• Primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified.
  • usage: "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long"
• Of relatively great height.
  • usage: "a race of long gaunt men- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
• Good at remembering.
  • usage: "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
  • synonyms: retentive, recollective, tenacious
• Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices.
  • usage: "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
• Of speech sounds or syllables. ( of relatively long duration)
  • usage: "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"
• Involving substantial risk.
  • usage: "long odds"
• Planning prudently for the future.
  • usage: "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
  • synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, longsighted
• (adj.) ()

adverb

• For an extended time or at a distant time.
  • usage: "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"
• For an extended distance. .

• (n.) A long sound, syllable or vowel.
• (prep.) By means of; by the fault of; because of.
• (adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest.
• (superl.) Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.
• (superl.) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
• (superl.) Far-reaching; extensive.
• (adv.) Through an extent of time, more or less; -- only in question; as, how long will you be gone?.
• (superl.) Drawn out in a line or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.
• (n.) The longest dimension; the greatest extent; -- in the phrase, the long and the short of it, that is, the sum and substance of it.
• (superl.) Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length; as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is, extended to the measure of a mile, etc.
• (a.) To belong; -- used with to, unto or for.
• (superl.) Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.
• (n.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
• (adv.) Through the whole extent or duration.
• (superl.) Prolonged or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, // 22, 30.
• (a.) To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive or by after or for.
• (adv.) To a great extent in time; during a long time.
• (adv.) To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line.
• (a.) Having a supply of stocks or goods; prepared for or depending for a profit upon, advance in prices; as, long of cotton. Hence, the phrases: to be or go, long of the market, to be on the long side of the market, to hold products or securities for a rise in price, especially when bought on a margin.

long is the position of an investor who owns, or commits to buy, a security in either the cash or futures markets. For example, the purchase of an interest rate future is a commitment to take delivery of securities at an agreed-on price on some future date. This is called a long futures position. Owning an investment security is a long cash position.

• Name Meaning: Dragon
• Name Origin: Chinese