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
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
