noun
- Any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero.
- usage: "an integer is a number that is not a fraction"
- synonyms: whole number
Integer and Long
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
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. .
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
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.