long.とは

意味・読み方・使い方

前置詞

'long

1. Abbreviation of along.

接尾辞

-long

1. Forms adjectives indicating duration when suffixed to nouns of duration

派生語

語源 1

From Middle English long, lang, from 古期英語 long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”). Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), North Frisian long, lung (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), Norwegian, West Frisian, Dutch and German lang (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Icelandic langur (“long”), Galician longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”), Latin longus (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj). Not a loan from French long, which is an inherited cognate from the exact same form. Doublet of lungo.

形容詞

long (comparative longer, superlative longest)

2. 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).

   It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:

     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.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

3. Having great duration.

   The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.

4. 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.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     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.

5. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     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.

6. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.

   I'm long in DuPont;  I have a long position in DuPont.

7. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (または closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
8. (tennis, of a ball または a shot) Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.

   That forehand is long.

9. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, OCLC 932900760, book IIII, canto IIII, page 55:

     But Campbell thus did ſhut vp all in ieſt, / Braue Knights and Ladies, certes ye doe wrong / To ſtirre vp ſtrife, when moſt vs needeth reſt, / That we may vs reſerue both freſh and ſtrong, / Againſt the Turneiment which is not long.

使用する際の注意点

• 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).

同意語

• (having much distance from one point to another): deep (vertically downwards), extended, high (vertically upwards), lengthy, tall
• (having great duration): extended, lengthy, prolonged

反意語

• (having much distance from one point to another): low (vertically upwards), shallow (vertically upwards または downwards), short
• (having great duration): brief, short
• (finance): short

下位語

派生語

参考

• broad
• wide

名詞

long (複数形 longs)

1. (linguistics) A long vowel.
   • 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics (volume 2, page 60)

     In French most vowels are half-long, and are only occasionally lengthened or shortened into full longs and shorts.

2. (prosody) A long syllable.
3. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
4. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.

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

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

   Every uptick made the longs cheer.

6. (finance) A long-term investment.
   • 1977, Jerome B. Cohen, Edward D. Zinbarg, Arthur Zeikel, Guide to Intelligent Investing (page 203)

     Likewise, if borrowers prefer to sell short-maturity issues at the time lenders prefer to invest in longs, as is the case when interest rates are expected to fall, longer maturity issues will tend to yield less than shorter maturity issues.

7. (Britain, colloquial, dated) The long summer vacation at the English universities.
   • 1863, Reade, Charles, Hard Cash:

     " […] Did I not forbid all these nicknames and all this Oxfordish, by proclamation, last Long."
     "Last Long?"
     "Hem! last protracted vacation."

動詞

long (三人称単数 現在形 longs, 現在分詞 longing, 過去形および過去分詞形 longed)

1. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
   • 2004, Thomas S. Y. Ho; Sang Bin Lee, Sang-bin Yi, The Oxford Guide to Financial Modeling, page 84:

     The left panel shows the profile of a portfolio consisting of longing a call and shorting a put.

語源 2

From Middle English longe, lange, from 古期英語 longe, lange, from the adjective (see above).

副詞

long (comparative longer, superlative longest)

1. Over a great distance in space.

   He threw the ball long.

2. For a particular duration.

   How long is it until the next bus arrives?

   • 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.

3. For a long duration.

   Will this interview take long?

   Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world.

   She has known us as long as you

   I haven't long to live.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, OCLC 932900760, book VI, canto XII, stanza 17, page 512:

     My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.

   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii], page 156, column 1:

     I ſtay too long ; but here my Father comes : / A double bleſſing is a double grace; / Occaſion ſmiles vpon a ſecond leaue.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.

   • 1991, James Melvin Washington, editor, A testament of hope: the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, page 636:

     I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern.

   • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     [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.

同意語

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

反意語

• (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

参考

• far
• wide
• broad

語源 3

From Middle English longen, from 古期英語 langian (“to long for, yearn after, grieve for, be pained, lengthen, grow longer, summon, belong”), from Proto-Germanic *langōną (“to desire, long for”), from Proto-Indo-European *lengʷʰ- (“to be easy, be quick, jump, move around, vary”). Cognate with German langen (“to reach, be sufficient”), Swedish langa (“to push, pass by hand”), Icelandic langa (“to want, desire”), Dutch, German verlangen (“to desire, want, long for”).

動詞

long (三人称単数 現在形 longs, 現在分詞 longing, 過去形および過去分詞形 longed)

2. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur または 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.

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

同意語

• (desire greatly): ache, yearn

派生語

• belong
• forlong
• longing

語源 4

From Middle English long, lang, an aphetic form of Middle English ilong, ylong, from 古期英語 ġelong, ġelang (“along, belonging, depending, consequent”); the verb later reinterpreted as an aphetic form of belong.

形容詞

long (not comparable)

1. (archaic) On account of, because of.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.8, page 224:

     I am of opinion, that in regarde of theſe debauches and lewde actions, fathers may, in ſome ſort, be blamed, and that it is onely long of them.

動詞

long (三人称単数 現在形 longs, 現在分詞 longing, 過去形および過去分詞形 longed)

1. (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.

   • circa 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.

語源 5

Shortening of longitude

名詞

long (複数形 longs)

2. longitude

等位語

• lat

語源 6

From Middle English longen, from 古期英語 langian (“to belong, pertain”), from 古期英語 *lang, which is of uncertain origin yet related to 古期英語 ġelang (“dependent, attainable, present, belonging, consequent”), Old Saxon gilang (“ready, available”).

動詞

long (三人称単数 現在形 longs, 現在分詞 longing, 過去形および過去分詞形 longed)

1. (obsolete) To belong.

参照

• long at OneLook Dictionary Search
• long in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

発音

• IPA^(key): /lonɡ/, [loŋɡ]

形容詞

long

1. Alternative form of lang

語形変化