The difference between Long and Short
When used as nouns, long means a long vowel, whereas short means a short circuit.
When used as adverbs, long means over a great distance in space, whereas short means abruptly, curtly, briefly.
When used as verbs, long means to take a long position in, whereas short means to cause a short circuit in (something).
When used as adjectives, long means having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point , whereas short means having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
Short is also preposition with the meaning: deficient in.
check bellow for the other definitions of Long and Short
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Long as an adjective:
Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .
Examples:
"It's a long way from the Earth to the Moon."
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Long as an adjective:
Having great duration.
Examples:
"The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time."
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Long as an adjective:
Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
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Long as an adjective (British, dialect):
Not short; tall.
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Long as an adjective (finance):
Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting of the expected rise in their value.
Examples:
"I'm long in DuPont;  I have a long position in DuPont."
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Long as an adjective (cricket):
Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
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Long as an adjective (tennis, of a ball or a shot):
That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
Examples:
"No! That forehand is longnb...."
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Long as an adjective:
Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
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Long as an adverb:
Over a great distance in space.
Examples:
"He threw the ball long."
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Long as an adverb:
For a particular duration.
Examples:
"How long is it until the next bus arrives?"
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Long as an adverb:
For a long duration.
Examples:
"Will this interview take long?"
"Paris has long been considered one of the most cultured cities in the world."
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Long as a noun (linguistics):
A long vowel.
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Long as a noun (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.
Examples:
"A long is typically 64 [[bit]]s in a 32-bit environment."
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Long as a noun (finance):
An entity with a long position in an asset.
Examples:
"Every uptick made the longs cheer."
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Long as a noun (music):
A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
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Long as a verb (transitive, finance):
To take a long position in.
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Long as a verb (intransitive):
To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)
Examples:
"She longed for him to come back."
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Long as an adjective (archaic):
On account , because .
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Long as a verb (archaic):
To be appropriate , to pertain or belong .
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Long as a noun:
longitude
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Short as an adjective:
Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
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Short as an adjective (of a person):
Of comparatively little height.
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Short as an adjective:
Having little duration; opposite of long.
Examples:
"Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long."
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Short as an adjective (followed by '''for'''):
Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
Examples:
"“Phone” is short for “telephone” and "asap" short for "as soon as possible"."
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Short as an adjective (cricket, of a [[fielder]] or fielding [[position]]):
that is relatively close to the batsman.
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Short as an adjective (cricket, of a ball):
that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
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Short as an adjective (golf, of an approach shot or putt):
that falls short of the green or the hole.
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Short as an adjective (of pastries and metals):
Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening.
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Short as an adjective:
Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
Examples:
"He gave a short answer to the question."
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Short as an adjective:
Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
Examples:
"a short supply of provisions"
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Short as an adjective:
Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
Examples:
"to be short of money"
"The cashier came up short ten dollars on his morning shift."
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Short as an adjective:
Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
Examples:
"an account which is short of the truth"
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Short as an adjective (obsolete):
Not distant in time; near at hand.
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Short as an adjective:
Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
Examples:
"I'm short General Motors because I think their sales are plunging."
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Short as an adverb:
Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
Examples:
"They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street."
"He cut me short repeatedly in the meeting."
"The boss got a message and cut the meeting short."
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Short as an adverb:
Unawares.
Examples:
"The recent developments at work caught them short."
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Short as an adverb:
Without achieving a goal or requirement.
Examples:
"His speech fell short of what was expected."
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Short as an adverb (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a [[cricket ball]]):
Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
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Short as an adverb (finance):
With a negative ownership position.
Examples:
"We went short most finance companies in July."
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Short as a noun:
A short circuit.
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Short as a noun:
A short film.
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Short as a noun:
Examples:
"38 short suits fit me right off the rack."
"Do you have that size in a short."
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Short as a noun (baseball):
A shortstop.
Examples:
"Jones smashes a grounder between third and short."
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Short as a noun (finance):
A short seller.
Examples:
"The market decline was terrible, but the shorts were buying champagne."
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Short as a noun (finance):
A short sale.
Examples:
"He closed out his short at a modest loss after three months."
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Short as a noun:
A summary account.
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Short as a noun (phonetics):
A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
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Short as a noun (programming):
An having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
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Short as a verb (transitive):
To cause a short circuit in (something).
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Short as a verb (intransitive):
Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
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Short as a verb (transitive):
To shortchange.
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Short as a verb (transitive):
To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
Examples:
"This is the third time I've caught them shorting us."
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Short as a verb (transitive, business):
To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
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Short as a verb (obsolete):
To shorten.
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Short as a preposition:
Deficient in.
Examples:
"We are short a few men on the second shift."
"He's short common sense."
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Short as a preposition (finance):
Having a negative position in.
Examples:
"I don't want to be short the market going into the weekend."
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