elongate, elongated
(adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender; “an elongate tail tapering to a point”; “the old man’s gaunt and elongated frame”
elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged
(adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially; “Picasso’s elongated Don Quixote”; “lengthened skirts are fashionable this year”; “the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes”; “a prolonged black line across the page”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
elongated (comparative more elongated, superlative most elongated)
extensive in length
stretched
(of a polyhedron) Having been modified by placing a prism in the middle of the polyhedron.
elongated
simple past tense and past participle of elongate
Source: Wiktionary
E*lon"gate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elongated; p. pr. & vb. n. Elongating.] Etym: [LL. elongatus, p. p. of elongare to remove, to prolong; e + L. longus long. See Long, a., and cf. Eloign.]
1. To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
2. To remove further off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
E*lon"gate, v. i.
Definition: To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [R.]
E*lon"gate, a. Etym: [LL. elongatus.]
Definition: Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. "An elongate form." Earle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 February 2025
(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
