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If you write something in longhand, you write it by hand and you write the words out in full. You are not typing, and you are not using shorthand — those special tiny marks people once used to catch speech fast. A teacher may want a longhand draft; a witness may give a longhand statement. “Hand” here means handwriting. “Long” is only there because the words are not cut short; nobody's hand is long. These days most of us type, so longhand often just means “by hand, in ordinary writing,” even when nobody in the room still knows shorthand. It can be a noun (write it in longhand) or an adverb (she wrote it longhand).
手寫全文（相對速記 shorthand；也常只是相對打字）
組成long + hand, built to sit next to shorthand. Hand = handwriting; long = written out in full, not shortened.
同家族的字
- shorthandthe opposite idea: writing in special short marks instead of full words
- handwritingshares hand in the sense of writing done by hand
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
longhandnoun/ˈlɒŋˌhænd/
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The written characters used in the common method of writing; opposed to shorthand, or typing or printing; handwriting.
- When, however, in any particular case, he has no assured means of determining the true spelling of the name, he should always quietly interrupt the dictater with the request, " Spell it , please," and then write the name in longhand from the dictater's spelling.
longhandadv/ˈlɒŋˌhænd/
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Written by hand in normal characters, as opposed to shorthand.
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Written by hand (with pen or pencil), rather than printed out; handwritten.
- I had to write the essay out twice longhand – they wouldn’t let me print it out. It took forever!
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。