Long vs Talk - 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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, 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.
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, title= For a long duration.
* 1594 , (William Shakespeare), i 3
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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:
A conversation or discussion.
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, title= A lecture.
(preceded by the) A major topic of social discussion.
(not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
To communicate, usually by means of speech.
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, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=5 (informal) To discuss.
(slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
To gossip; to create scandal.
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In intransitive terms the difference between long and talk
is that long is to await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true while talk is to gossip; to create scandal.As nouns the difference between long and talk
is that long is a long vowel while talk is a conversation or discussion.As verbs the difference between long and talk
is that long is to take a long position in while talk is to communicate, usually by means of speech.As an adjective 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.As an adverb long
is over a great distance in space.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.}}
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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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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.
talk
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* all talk * baby talk * betalk * big talk * boy talk * chalk talk/chalk and talk * cross talk/crosstalk * dirty talk * girl talk * happy talk * idle talk * man talk * peace talk * pep talk * pillow talk * self-talk * shop talk * side talk * sleep talk * small talk * table talk * talk battery * talk bomb * talk is cheap * talk of the town * talk page * talk radio * talk show * talk the talk * talkback * talkie * walk and talk * walk the talk * walkie-talkieVerb
(en verb)- I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk', really '''talk'''. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He ' talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
citation, passage=Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.}}
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