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Qui dure beaucoup de temps ou semble durer beaucoup de temps.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : lengthy, extended, prolonged

Contraires : short, brief

Expressions courantes : a long time, a long wait, a long day, a long meeting

long

Qui mesure une grande distance d’un bout à l’autre.

En anglais simple : Measuring a large distance from one end to the other.

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

Synonymes : lengthy

Contraires : short

Expressions courantes : long hair, long road, long tail

long

Qui se poursuit pendant une longue période.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : lengthy, prolonged

Contraires : short, brief

Expressions courantes : long time, long wait, long meeting

long

Qui parcourt une grande distance ou est envoyé loin, surtout dans le sport.

En anglais simple : 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.

Contraires : short

Expressions courantes : long ball, long pass, long throw

entier long

Type de données informatiques qui stocke des nombres entiers, souvent plus grands que ceux du type entier de base.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : a long, unsigned long, signed long

investisseur en position longue

Investisseur qui possède un actif et s’attend à une hausse de son prix.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : bull

Contraires : short

Expressions courantes : a long, market longs

aspirer à, désirer ardemment

Désirer très fortement quelqu’un ou quelque chose, surtout si cette personne ou chose est éloignée ou difficile à atteindre.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : long for someone/something (I long for the peace of the countryside.); long to do something (She longed to see her family again.)

Synonymes : yearn, crave

Expressions courantes : long for something, long to leave, long for home, long for peace

combien de temps, aussi longtemps

Indique la durée sur laquelle porte la question ou que précisent d’autres mots de la phrase.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : how long + question (How long will you stay?); as long as something (The second flight lasted twice as long as the first.)

Expressions courantes : how long, that long, twice as long