long vs tall

long

adj
  • Not short; tall. 

  • Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value. 

  • Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring or tedious or tiring. 

  • Having great duration. 

  • Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location, as weapons fire or landing aircraft. 

  • Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager. 

  • Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position). 

  • Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out. 

  • Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away. 

  • 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). 

verb
  • To take a long position in. 

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

noun
  • An entity with a long position in an asset. 

  • A long-term investment. 

  • A long vowel. 

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

  • 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 syllable. 

adv
  • For a long duration. 

  • Over a great distance in space. 

  • For a particular duration. 

tall

adj
  • Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall. 

  • Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high. 

  • Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml). 

  • Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale. 

noun
  • Someone or something that is tall. 

  • A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces. 

  • A clothing size for taller people. 

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