Difference between Hourlong and Long

What is the difference between Hourlong and Long?

Hourlong as an adjective is which lasts an hour, or approximately so while Long as an adjective is having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point .

Hourlong

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: which lasts an hour, or approximately so of or related to an hourlong period of time

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: If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

We hope you now know whether to use Hourlong or Long in your sentence.

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