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  • 11Long — steht für: Long (Familienname), der Familienname Long den Kreis Long in Baoji in der chinesischen Provinz Shaanxi, siehe Long (Baoji) Long (Mythologie), eine Drachenfigur in der chinesischen Mythologie Long und Short, eine Käufer Position in der… …

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  • 12Long — Long, adv. [AS. lance.] 1. To a great extent in space; as, a long drawn out line. [1913 Webster] 2. To a great extent in time; during a long time. [1913 Webster] They that tarry long at the wine. Prov. xxiii. 30. [1913 Webster] When the trumpet… …

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  • 13long — The conjunction as (or so) long as has two main meanings: (1) ‘during the whole time that’ (You can stay as long as you like), and (2) ‘provided that, only if’ (You can stay as long as you help me). In some contexts the two meanings overlap in a… …

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  • 14Long'an — steht für: den Stadtbezirk Long an (龙安区) der kreisfreien Stadt Anyang in der chinesischen Provinz Henan, siehe Long an (Anyang) den Kreis Long an (隆安县) der bezirksfreien Stadt Nanning im Autonomen Gebiet Guangxi der Zhuang Nationalität in der VR… …

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  • 15Long — Long, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Longed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Longing}.] [AS. langian to increase, to lengthen, to stretch out the mind after, to long, to crave, to belong to, fr. lang long. See {Long}, a.] 1. To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; …

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  • 16Long Ho — Long Hồ was also the name of the Vĩnh Long Province of Vietnam before 1975 .Long Ho ( vi. Long Hồ) is a district ( huyện ) of Vinh Long Province, in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam …

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  • 17long-a|go — «LNG uh GOH, LONG », adjective, noun. –adj. that has long gone by; that belongs to the distant past: »Hiroshima today is obsessed by that long ago mushroom cloud (Time). –n. the distant past or its events: »Time is always apt to paint the long… …

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  • 18Long — Long, n. 1. (Mus.) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. [1913 Webster] 2. (Phonetics) A long sound, syllable, or vowel. [1913 Webster] 3. The longest dimension; the greatest extent; in the phrase,… …

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  • 19long — adj: owning or accumulating securities, goods, or commodities esp. in anticipation of a rise in prices a buyer long on wheat compare short Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 20-long — adverbial suffix indicating direction, from O.N. langr, from langr long (adj.); see LONG (Cf. long) (adj.). Displaced native ling …

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