What is the difference between long and short?
long | short | Antonyms |
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 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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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.
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, title= For a long duration.
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, 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:
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
(of a person) Of comparatively little height.
Having little duration; opposite of long.
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, magazine=(American Scientist)
Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
(cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
(cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
Brittle (of pastry, and some metals); see also shortening, shortcrust.
Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
* Landor
(obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
* Spenser
* Clarendon
In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
Unawares.
Without achieving a goal or requirement.
(cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
(finance) With a negative ownership position.
A short circuit.
A short film.
* 2012 July 12, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift [http://www.avclub.com/articles/ice-age-continental-drift,82358/]
(Used to indicate a short-length version of a size)
(baseball) A shortstop.
(finance) A short seller.
(finance) A short sale.
A summary account.
* Shakespeare
(phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
* H. Sweet
(label) An shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
To cause a in (something).
Of an electrical circuit, to .
To shortchange.
To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
(business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short .
(obsolete) To shorten.
Deficient in.
(finance) Having a negative position in.
Short is a antonym of long.
In finance terms the difference between long and short
is that long is an entity with a long position in an asset while short is having a negative position in.In obsolete terms the difference between long and short
is that long is occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away while short is to shorten.In programming terms the difference between long and short
is that long is a long integer variable, twice the size of an int or a short and half of a long long while short is an {{l/en|integer}} {{l/en|variable}} shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.In intransitive terms the difference between long and short
is that long is to await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true while short is of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.As adjectives the difference between long and short
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 short is having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.As adverbs the difference between long and short
is that long is over a great distance in space while short is abruptly, curtly, briefly.As nouns the difference between long and short
is that long is a long vowel while short is a short circuit.As verbs the difference between long and short
is that long is to take a long position in while short is to cause a short circuit in (something).As proper nouns the difference between long and short
is that long is {{surname|from=nicknames}} Originally a nickname for a tall man while Short is {{surname}.As a preposition short is
deficient in.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.}}
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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
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- I stay too long : but here my father comes.
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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.
short
English
(wikipedia short)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}
- Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long.
- “Phone” is short''' for “telephone” and "asap" '''short for "as soon as possible".
- He gave a short answer to the question.
- a short supply of provisions
- to be short of money
- The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift.
- an account which is short of the truth
- Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war.
- Marinell was sore offended / That his departure thence should be so short .
- He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day.
- I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging.
Usage notes
* (having a small distance between ends or edges) (term) is often used in the positive vertical dimension and used as is (shallow) in the negative vertical dimension; in the horizontal dimension (narrow) is more commonly used.Synonyms
* (having a small distance between ends or edges) low, narrow, slim, shallow * little, pint-sized, petite, titchy (slang) * (having little duration) brief, concise * an abbreviation of, a short form ofAntonyms
* (having a small distance between ends or edges) tall, high, wide, broad, deep, long * tall * (having little duration) long * longAdverb
(-)- They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.
- He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting.
- The boss got a message and cut the meeting short .
- The recent developments at work caught them short .
- His speech fell short of what was expected.
- We went short most finance companies in July.
Noun
(en noun)- Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
- 38 short suits fit me right off the rack.
- Do you have that size in a short .
- Jones smashes a grounder between third and short .
- The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne.
- He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months.
- The short and the long is, our play is preferred.
- If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in "bit" and "beat", "not" and "naught", we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well.
Verb
(en verb)- This is the third time I've caught them shorting us.
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We are short a few men on the second shift.
- He's short common sense.
- I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend.