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longer 音标拼音: [l'ɔŋgɚ] 更长 更长 longer adv 1: for more time; " can I stay bit longer?" n 1: a person with a strong desire for something; " a longer for money"; " a thirster after blood"; " a yearner for knowledge" [ synonym: { longer}, { thirster}, { yearner}] Longer \ Long" er\, n. One who longs for anything. [ 1913 Webster]
Long \ Long\, a. [ Compar. { Longer}; superl. { Longest}.] [ AS. long, lang; akin to OS, OFries., D., & G. lang, Icel. langr, Sw. l[* a] ng, Dan. lang, Goth. laggs, L. longus. [ root] 125. Cf. { Length}, { Ling} a fish, { Linger}, { Lunge}, { Purloin}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. [ 1913 Webster] The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Having a length of the 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. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Far- reaching; extensive. " Long views." -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See { Short}, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, [ sect][ sect] 22, 30. [ 1913 Webster] 8. ( Finance & Com.) 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, esp. when bought on a margin. Contrasted to { short}. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as, long- armed, long- beaked, long- haired, long- horned, long- necked, long- sleeved, long- tailed, long- worded, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { In the long run}, in the whole course of things taken together; in the ultimate result; eventually. { Long clam} ( Zool.), the common clam ({ Mya arenaria}) of the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also { soft- shell clam} and { long- neck clam}. See { Mya}. { Long cloth}, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality. { Long clothes}, clothes worn by a young infant, extending below the feet. { Long division}. ( Math.) See { Division}. { Long dozen}, one more than a dozen; thirteen. { Long home}, the grave. { Long measure}, { Long meter}. See under { Measure}, { Meter}. { Long Parliament} ( Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell, April 20, 1653. { Long price}, the full retail price. { Long purple} ( Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed to be the { Orchis mascula}. -- Dr. Prior. { Long suit} ( a) ( Whist), a suit of which one holds originally more than three cards. -- R. A. Proctor. ( b) One' s most important resource or source of strength; as, as an entertainer, her voice was her long suit. { Long tom}. ( a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of a vessel. ( b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [ Western U. S.] ( c) ( Zool.) The long- tailed titmouse. { Long wall} ( Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work progresses, except where passages are needed. { Of long}, a long time. [ Obs.] -- Fairfax. { To be long of the market}, or { To go long of the market}, { To be on the long side of the market}, etc. ( Stock Exchange), to hold stock for a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated price; -- opposed to { short} in such phrases as, to be short of stock, to sell short, etc. [ Cant] See { Short}. { To have a long head}, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind. [ 1913 Webster]
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