Inside the Universes

'Long'

[hanker.v.01] as in: desire strongly or persistently

'Long'

[long.a.01] as in: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

Examples:
a long life
a long boring speech
a long time
a long friendship
a long game
long ago
an hour long

'Long'

[long.a.02] as in: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified

Examples:
a long road
a long distance
contained many long words
ten miles long

'Long'

[long.s.01] as in: of relatively great height; - Sherwood Anderson

Examples:
a race of long gaunt men
looked out the long French windows

'Long'

[retentive.a.01] as in: good at remembering

Examples:
a retentive mind
tenacious memory

'Long'

[long.a.05] as in: holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

Examples:
is long on coffee
a long position in gold

'Long'

[long.a.06] as in: (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

Examples:
the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long

'Long'

[long.s.02] as in: involving substantial risk

Examples:
long odds

'Long'

[farseeing.s.02] as in: planning prudently for the future

Examples:
large goals that required farsighted policies
took a long view of the geopolitical issues

'Long'

[long.s.04] as in: having or being more than normal or necessary:

Examples:
long on brains
in long supply

'Long'

[long.r.01] as in: for an extended time or at a distant time

Examples:
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

'Long'

[long.r.02] as in: for an extended distance