{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "lɔŋ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK): [lɔŋ]", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/long.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK): [lɔŋ]", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/long.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US): [lɑŋ]", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/long.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US): [lɑŋ]", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/long.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”). Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj), долго (dolgo), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”).\nThe word exceptionally retains the Old English darkening of -a- before nasals. Though there are other such examples in Middle and Modern English (e.g. bond), the o-form may have been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge.", "From Middle English longe, lange, from Old English longe, lange, from the adjective (see above).", "From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to long for, yearn after, grieve for, be pained, lengthen, grow longer, summon, belong”), from Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“to be easy, be quick, jump, move around, vary”). Cognate with German langen (“to reach, be sufficient”), Swedish langa (“to push, pass by hand”), Icelandic langa (“to want, desire”), Dutch, German verlangen (“to desire, want, long for”).", "From Middle English long, lang, an aphetic form of Middle English ilong, ylong, from Old English ġelong, ġelang (“along, belonging, depending, consequent”); the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.", "Shortening of longitude.", "From Middle English longen, from Old English langian (“to belong, pertain”), from Old English *lang, which is of uncertain origin yet related to Old English ġelang (“dependent, attainable, present, belonging, consequent”), Old Saxon gilang (“ready, available”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).\nIt's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.\nHow long was your newborn baby?" }, { "mean": "Having great duration.\nThe pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time." }, { "mean": "Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring or tedious or tiring." }, { "mean": "(Britain, dialect) Not short; tall." }, { "mean": "(finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.\nCoordinate term: short\nI'm long in DuPont.\nI have a long position in DuPont." }, { "mean": "(cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position)." }, { "mean": "Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location, as weapons fire or landing aircraft.\nThe plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway." }, { "mean": "(tennis, of a ball or a shot) Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.\nThat forehand is long." }, { "mean": "(gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager." }, { "mean": "Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(linguistics) A long vowel.\n1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics (volume 2, page 60)\nIn French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts." }, { "mean": "(prosody) A long syllable." }, { "mean": "(music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve." }, { "mean": "(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.\nA long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment." }, { "mean": "(finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.\nEvery uptick made the longs cheer." }, { "mean": "(finance) A long-term investment.\n1977, Jerome B. Cohen; Edward D. Zinbarg; Arthur Zeikel, Guide to Intelligent Investing, →OCLC, page 203:Likewise, if borrowers prefer to sell short-maturity issues at the time lenders prefer to invest in longs, as is the case when interest rates are expected to fall, longer maturity issues will tend to yield less than shorter maturity issues." }, { "mean": "(UK, colloquial, dated) The long summer vacation at the English universities.\n1863, Reade, Charles, Hard Cash:\" Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long.\"\"Last Long?\"\"Hem! last protracted vacation.\"" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, finance) To take a long position in." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Over a great distance in space.\nHe threw the ball long." }, { "mean": "For a particular duration.\nHow long is it until the next bus arrives?" }, { "mean": "For a long duration.\nWill this interview take long?\nParis has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.\nShe has known us as long as you\nI haven't long to live." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).\nSynonyms: ache, yearn\nShe longed for him to come back." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic) On account of, because of.\n1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.8, page 224:\nI am of opinion, that in regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long'd to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.\nc. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Abbreviation of longitude." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) To belong.\nc. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , part 1, 2nd edition, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene v:Now ſend Ambaſſage to thy neighbor Kinges,And let them know the Perſian King is chang’d:From one that knew not what a King ſhould doe,To one that can commaund what longs there to:" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "long at OneLook Dictionary Search\nlong in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(having much distance from one point to another): deep (vertically downwards), extended, high (vertically upwards), lengthy, tall", "(having great duration): extended, lengthy, prolonged" ], "kor": [ "", "" ] } } }