Difference between Long and Length

What is the difference between Long and Length?

Long as a noun is a long vowel. while Length as a noun is the measurement of distance along the longest dimension of an object.

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.

Length

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The measurement of distance along the longest dimension of an object.durationThe length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.Distance between the two ends of a line segment.The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.total extentpart of something that's long, a physical piece of something

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

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