The difference between Long and Wide

When used as nouns, long means a long vowel, whereas wide means a ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable.

When used as adverbs, long means over a great distance in space, whereas wide means extensively.

When used as adjectives, long means having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point , whereas wide means having a large physical extent from side to side.

Long is also verb with the meaning: to take a long position in.

check bellow for the other definitions of Long and Wide

  1. 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."

  2. Long as an adjective:

    Having great duration.

    Examples:

    "The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time."

  3. Long as an adjective:

    Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.

  4. Long as an adjective (British, dialect):

    Not short; tall.

  5. 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."

  6. Long as an adjective (cricket):

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

  7. 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...."

  8. Long as an adjective:

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

  1. Long as an adverb:

    Over a great distance in space.

    Examples:

    "He threw the ball long."

  2. Long as an adverb:

    For a particular duration.

    Examples:

    "How long is it until the next bus arrives?"

  3. 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."

  1. Long as a noun (linguistics):

    A long vowel.

  2. 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."

  3. Long as a noun (finance):

    An entity with a long position in an asset.

    Examples:

    "Every uptick made the longs cheer."

  4. Long as a noun (music):

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

  1. Long as a verb (transitive, finance):

    To take a long position in.

  1. 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."

  1. Long as an adjective (archaic):

    On account , because .

  1. Long as a verb (archaic):

    To be appropriate , to pertain or belong .

  1. Long as a noun:

    longitude

  1. Wide as an adjective:

    Having a large physical extent from side to side.

    Examples:

    "We walked down a wide corridor."

  2. Wide as an adjective:

    Large in scope.

    Examples:

    "The inquiry had a wide remit."

  3. Wide as an adjective (sports):

    Operating at the side of the playing area.

    Examples:

    "That team needs a decent wide player."

  4. Wide as an adjective:

    On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

    Examples:

    "Too bad! That was a great passing-shot, but it's wide."

  5. Wide as an adjective (phonetics, dated):

    Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.

  6. Wide as an adjective (Scotland, Northern England, now rare):

    Vast, great in extent, extensive.

    Examples:

    "The wide, lifeless expanse."

  7. Wide as an adjective:

    Remote; distant; far.

    Examples:

    "The hut was not wide from the sea."

    "The cabin is not wide from the lake."

  8. Wide as an adjective (obsolete):

    Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.

  9. Wide as an adjective (computing):

    Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.

    Examples:

    "a wide character; a wide stream"

  1. Wide as an adverb:

    extensively

    Examples:

    "He travelled far and wide."

  2. Wide as an adverb:

    completely

    Examples:

    "He was wide awake."

  3. Wide as an adverb:

    away from a given goal

    Examples:

    "The arrow fell wide of the mark."

  4. Wide as an adverb:

    So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

  1. Wide as a noun (cricket):

    A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

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