Big vs Long - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between big and long

is that big is a biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants while long is hair; fur; coat.

big

English

Etymology 1

From a northern (etyl) dialectal term (m), .

Adjective

(bigger)

Of great size, large.

*:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line,, with their court of farm and church and clustered village, in dignified seclusion.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-06, volume=408, issue=8843, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The rise of smart beta , passage=Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.}}

(lb) Thought to have undue influence.

Popular.

(lb) Adult.

*1931 , , Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer , Montgomery Ward (publisher), draft:

*:By midnight, however, the last light had fled / For even big people have then gone to bed[.]

(lb) Fat.

(lb) Important or significant.

*:"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."

*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport

, title= Norwich 3-3 Blackburn , passage=It proved a big miss as Hoilett produced a sublime finish into the top corner of the net from 20 yards after evading a couple of challenges in first-half stoppage time.}}

Enthusiastic (about).

(lb) Mature, conscientious, principled.

(lb) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.

Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.

*(and other bibliographic details) (Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)

*:[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.

(lb)

Synonyms

* (of a great size) ample, huge, large, sizeable, stoor, jumbo, massive * (adult) adult, fully grown, grown up * See also

Antonyms

* (of a great size) little, small, tiny, minuscule, miniature, minute * (adult) little, young

Derived terms

* Big Apple * big-ass * big baby * big band * Big Bang * big bath * big beat * Big Ben * Big Bertha * big blind * big bluestem * Big Board * big-boned * big box * big boy/big boys * big break * big brother * Big Brother * big bucks * big business * big C * big cat * big cheese * Big Crunch * Big D * big daddy * big deal * Big Dipper * Big Easy * big enchilada * big end * big fat/big-fat/big phat * big figure * big fish * big fly * Big Four * big game * biggie, no biggie * big girl's blouse * big government * big gun * big H/Big H * big hair * big hand * big head/big-head * big-headed * big-hearted * big house * big idea * big if * big iron * Big Island * big kid * big labor * big-league * big lick * big lie * big lug * big kahuna * Big Mac * big money * big mouth * Big Muddy * big name / big-name * bigness * big O * big O notation * big old/big ole * big one/the big one * big pharma * big picture * Big Q * big rig * Big Rip * big science * big screen * big shagbank * big shot * big shoulder * big six/the big six * Big Six * big sleep * big slick * Big Smoke * big spender * big spring * big stick * Big Sur * big talk * big tent * Big Three * big-ticket * big time/big-time/bigtime * big toe * big top/big-top * big tree * Big Uglies * big up * big wheel * big whoop * big wig/big-wig/bigwig * big-wigged * big wow * great big * hit it big * make it big * /Mr Big/Mister Big * the bigs * too big for one's boots * too big to fail

Adverb

(bigger)

In a loud manner.

In a boasting manner.

He's always talking big , but he never delivers.

In a large amount or to a large extent.

He won big betting on the croquet championship.

On a large scale, expansively

You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.

Hard.

He hit him big and the guy just crumpled.

Noun

(en noun)

An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.

(as plural) The big leagues, big time.

Synonyms

* (big leagues) major leagues

Verb

(up)

To praise or recommend

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).

Verb

to inhabit; occupy

to locate one's self

to build; erect; fashion

to dwell; have a dwelling

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(-)

One or more kinds of barley, especially (six-rowed barley).

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long

English

(wikipedia long)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) long, lang, from (etyl) longe, long, .

Adjective

(er)

Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .

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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 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.}}

Having great duration.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= 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.}}

Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.

*1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty), Chapter 23

*: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.

, 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.

*: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.

(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 ).

(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 .

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, prolonged

Antonyms

* (having much distance from one point to another) low (vertically upwards), shallow (vertically upwards or downwards), short * (having great duration) brief, short * (finance) short

Derived 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, yearslong

Adverb

(er)

Over a great distance in space.

For a particular duration.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan

, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

For a long duration.

* 1594 , (William Shakespeare), i 3

I stay too long : but here my father comes.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2

, 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.}}

Synonyms

* (over a great distance) a long way, far * (for a long duration) a long time

Antonyms

* (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 long

Noun

(en noun)

(linguistics) A long vowel.

(programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int or a short and half of a long long.

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

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

Every uptick made the longs cheer.

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

Verb

(en verb)

(finance) To take a long position in.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) longen, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)

She longed for him to come back.

* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)

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 . See

Synonyms

* (desire greatly) ache, yearn

Derived terms

* longing

Etymology 3

Aphetic form of (etyl) gelang; the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.

Adjective

(-)

(archaic) On account of, because of.

* 1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , II.8:

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)

(archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:

A goodly Armour, and full rich aray, / Which long'd to Angela, the Saxon Queene, / All fretted round with gold, and goodly wel beseene.

* about 1591 , (William Shakespeare), The Taming of the Shrew , IV, 4:

Tis well, and hold your owne in any case / With such austeritie as longeth to a father.

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