Difference between Elongated and Long

Elongated

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: extensive in length stretched

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.

Long

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A long vowel.A long integer variable, twice the size of an int and half of a long long. A long is typically 64 bits in a 32-bit environment.An entity with a long position in an asset.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take a long position in.To await, to aspire, to desire greatly (something to occur or to be true)

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .Having great duration.possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or financial instruments with prices positively correlated with them.of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position)

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Over a great distance in space.For a particular duration.For a long duration.

Example sentence: Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.