long

largo, prolongado

Que dura mucho tiempo o da la impresión de durar mucho.

En inglés sencillo: Lasting a lot of time, or feeling as if it lasts a lot of time.

• It was a long day.
• The meeting was longer than I expected.
• Why does this film feel so long?

Sinónimos: lengthy, extended, prolonged

Antónimos: short, brief

Expresiones frecuentes: a long time, a long wait, a long day, a long meeting

largo

Que mide mucho de un extremo al otro.

En inglés sencillo: Measuring a large distance from one end to the other.

• She has long hair.
• We crossed a long bridge.
• How long is that rope?

Sinónimos: lengthy

Antónimos: short

Expresiones frecuentes: long hair, long road, long tail

largo, prolongado

Que se mantiene durante mucho tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: Lasting for a large amount of time.

• It was a long day.
• We had a long wait at the airport.
• Will the meeting be long?

Sinónimos: lengthy, prolonged

Antónimos: short, brief

Expresiones frecuentes: long time, long wait, long meeting

largo

Que recorre una gran distancia o se envía muy lejos, especialmente en deportes.

En inglés sencillo: Moving or sent over a large distance, especially in sport.

• He made a long pass.
• The goalkeeper sent a long ball towards the striker.
• Her long throws helped the team attack.

Antónimos: short

Expresiones frecuentes: long ball, long pass, long throw

entero largo

Tipo de dato informático que guarda números enteros y suele admitir valores mayores que el tipo entero básico.

En inglés sencillo: A computer data type for storing whole numbers, often allowing larger values than the basic integer type.

• Store the value in a long.
• The program converts the number to a long.
• Two longs hold the starting and ending values.

Expresiones frecuentes: a long, unsigned long, signed long

inversor en largo

Inversor que posee un activo y espera que su precio suba.

En inglés sencillo: An investor who owns an asset and expects its price to rise.

• The longs welcomed the price rise.
• Several longs sold their shares before the market closed.
• A sharp fall could hurt the longs.

Sinónimos: bull

Antónimos: short

Expresiones frecuentes: a long, market longs

anhelar, ansiar

Desear muchísimo a alguien o algo, sobre todo si está lejos o resulta difícil de conseguir.

En inglés sencillo: To want someone or something very much, especially when they are far away or hard to have.

• I long for home.
• He longed to hold his daughter again.
• Do you ever long for a quieter life?

Cómo se usa: long for someone/something (I long for the peace of the countryside.); long to do something (She longed to see her family again.)

Sinónimos: yearn, crave

Expresiones frecuentes: long for something, long to leave, long for home, long for peace

cuánto tiempo, tanto tiempo

Indica la duración por la que se pregunta o que expresan otras palabras de la frase.

En inglés sencillo: For the amount of time asked about or stated by nearby words.

• How long did you wait?
• I did not expect to stay that long.
• This battery lasts twice as long.

Cómo se usa: how long + question (How long will you stay?); as long as something (The second flight lasted twice as long as the first.)

Expresiones frecuentes: how long, that long, twice as long