English Dictionary

long

IPA（発音記号）

/lɒŋ/

名詞

イギリス英語 口語 古風

(linguistics) A long vowel. / (prosody) A long syllable. / (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

日本語の意味

言語学: 長母音。 / 韻律学: 長音節。 / 音楽: かつて用いられた音符で、大音符の半分の長さ、ブレーブの2倍の長さのもの。

The linguist labeled the final vowel as a long, distinguishing it from a short.

言語学者は最後の母音を長母音として分類し、短母音と区別した。

意味（1）

(linguistics) A long vowel.

In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.

意味（2）

(prosody) A long syllable.

意味（3）

(music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.

意味（4）

(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.

A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.

意味（5）

(finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.

Every uptick made the longs cheer.

意味（6）

(finance) A long-term investment.

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.

意味（7）

(UK, colloquial, dated) The long summer vacation at the English universities.

[…] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long. Last Long? Hem! last protracted vacation.

longs （ plural ）