Long vs Back - What's the difference?
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Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.}}
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=17 Having great duration.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
*1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty),
*:What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady's carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
Not short; tall.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
(label) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
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(label) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out ).
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(label) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:That we may us reserve both fresh and strong / Against the tournament, which is not long .
Over a great distance in space.
For a particular duration.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= For a long duration.
* 1594 , (William Shakespeare), i 3
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.}}
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(linguistics) A long vowel.
(programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int or a short and half of a long long.
(finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
(music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(archaic) On account of, because of.
* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.8:
(archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
* about 1591 , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , IV, 4:
(not comparable) Near the rear.
* , chapter=19
, title= (not comparable) Not current.
(not comparable) Far from the main area.
In arrear; overdue.
Moving or operating backward.
(comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
(not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Away from the front or from an edge.
* , chapter=1
, title= In a manner that impedes.
In a reciprocal manner.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
#The spine and associated tissues.
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# Large and attractive buttocks.
#*{{quote-book, 2002, (George Pelecanos), title=
, passage= He got his hand on her behind and caressed her firm, ample flesh.
#(lb) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
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#The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
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#(lb) That part of the body that bears clothing.
#*{{quote-book, 1604, (William Shakespeare),
, passage=Do thou but think / What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back / From such a filthy vice}}
That which is farthest away from the front.
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#The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
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##The edge of a book which is bound.
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##(lb) The inside margin of a page.
##*, page=472, edition=1965 Ayer Publishing ed., title=
, passage=Convenience and custom have familiarised us to the printed page being a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and to its having a little more margin at the fore edge than in the back .}}
##The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
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#The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
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#Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
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#The part of something that goes last.
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#(lb) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
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#*{{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Kevin Darlin, work=BBC
, title= (lb) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
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A support or resource in reserve.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:This project / Should have a back or second, that might hold, / If this should blast in proof.
(lb) The keel and keelson of a ship.
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(lb) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
*{{quote-book, 1911, Robert Bruce Brinsmade, title=
, passage=The stope is kept full of broken ore, sufficient only being drawn to leave a working space between the floor of broken ore and the back of the stope.}}
Effort, usually physical.
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A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
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Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
*1848 , Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Maine Reports (volume 6, page 397)
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To go in the reverse direction.
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, title= To support.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 9, author=Owen Phillips, work=BBC Sport
, title= (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
(nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
(nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
(UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
To push or force backwards.
(obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
* (Thomas Henry Huxley) (1825-1895)
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
(legal, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
To row backward with (oars).
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
A ferryboat.
In obsolete terms the difference between long and back
is that long is occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away while back is that part of the body that bears clothing.In intransitive terms the difference between long and back
is that long is to await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true while back is to go in the reverse direction.As adjectives the difference between long and back
is that long is 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 while back is near the rear.As adverbs the difference between long and back
is that long is over a great distance in space while back is to or in a previous condition or place.As nouns the difference between long and back
is that long is a long vowel while back is the rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.As verbs the difference between long and back
is that long is to take a long position in while back is to go in the reverse direction.As a proper noun Long
is {{surname|from=nicknames}} Originally a nickname for a tall man.long
English
(wikipedia long)Etymology 1
From (etyl) long, lang, from (etyl) longe, long, .Adjective
(er)citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Chapter 23
Usage notes
* Wide'' is usually used instead of ''long when referring to a horizontal dimension (left to right). * Tall'' or ''high'' are usually used instead of ''long'' when referring to positive vertical dimension (upwards), and ''deep when referring to negative vertical dimension (downwards).Synonyms
* (having much distance from one point to another) deep (vertically downwards), extended, high (vertically upwards), lengthy, tall * (having great duration) extended, lengthy, prolongedAntonyms
* (having much distance from one point to another) low (vertically upwards), shallow (vertically upwards or downwards), short * (having great duration) brief, short * (finance) shortDerived terms
* * as the day is long * daylong, dayslong * long arm of the law * long game * long gun * longhand * long-haul * long paddock * long pig * long row to hoe * long shot * long vehicle * long-waisted * long white radish * the long and short * yearlong, yearslongAdverb
(er)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- I stay too long : but here my father comes.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Synonyms
* (over a great distance) a long way, far * (for a long duration) a long timeAntonyms
* (over a great distance) a short distance, a short way * (for a long duration) an instant, a minute, a moment, a second, a short time, not longSee also
* far * wide * broadNoun
(en noun)- A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.
- Every uptick made the longs cheer.
See also
* broad * wideEtymology 2
From (etyl) longen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- She longed for him to come back.
- The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet the idea of growing shabby and losing his eyes and whiskers was rather sad.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (desire greatly) ache, yearnDerived terms
* longingEtymology 3
Aphetic form of (etyl) gelang; the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.Adjective
(-)- I am of opinion that in regard of these debauches and lewd actions, fathers may, in some sort, be blamed, and that it is only long of them.
Verb
(en verb)- A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long'd to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.
- Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.
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English
(wikipedia back)Etymology 1
(etyl) bak, from (etyl) 'bending'. The adverb represents an aphetic form of (aback).Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
- back rent
- back action
Synonyms
* (near the rear) rear * (not current) former, previous * (far from the main area) remoteAntonyms
* (near the rear) front * (not current) current * (far from the main area) mainAdverb
(further)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,
Noun
(en noun)Right as Rain: A Novel, isbn=0446610798, page=123
A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, isbn=0833731289
West Brom 1-3 Blackburn, passage=
Mining Without Timber, page=161
Synonyms
* (side opposite the visible side) reverse * (rear of the body) rear, backsideAntonyms
* (side opposite the front or useful side) front * (that which is farthest away from the front) frontCoordinate terms
* (non-alcoholic drink)Derived terms
* (non-alcoholic drink)Verb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’
Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark, passage=And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes}}
- to back oxen
- I will back him [a horse] straight.
- Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed , / Appeared to me.
- to back books
- a gardenwith a vineyard backed
- the chalk cliffs which back the beach
- to back''' a letter; to '''back a note or legal document
- to back the oars