Elongate

/ɪˈlɒŋ.ɡeɪt/ · adjective

Meaning

Elongated, extended, lengthened; (especially biology) having a long and slender form..

Definitions by Sense

1. Elongated, extended, lengthened; (especially biology) having a long and slender form.
2. To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
3. Followed by from: to move to or place (something) at a distance from another thing; to remove.
4. To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
5. Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form.
6. Followed by from: to be at a distance, or move away, from a thing; to depart; (specifically, astronomy) of a planet, star, or other astronomical object: to appear to recede from the sun or a fixed point in the celestial sphere.

Example Sentences

Painted turtles lay oval, elongate eggs.

He stood in the shadow of the pagoda, achieving a kinship between the building and himself by his elongate elegance, an air of old, uninsisting nobility.

Schwarz had a glass of orange juice in his right hand. He tilted the glass slightly now, the surface of the liquid assuming an elongate outline.

The teeth [of Thaumatomyrmex ants], or tines of the pitchfork, are sometimes so elongate that when the mandibles are closed, the largest pair curve all around the opposite side of the head and stick out behind its posterior rim.

VVhen the muſcles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again diſtends or elongates them; and thus irritated they contract as before.

A vvriter may tell me that he thinks man vvill ultimately become an oſtrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reaſonable perſon over to his opinion, he ought to ſhevv, that the necks of mankind have been gradually elongating; […] and that the hair is beginning to change into ſtubs of feathers.

[T]he despairing wretches [people accused of being witches] confirmed what the children said, with many other extravagant circumstances, as the mode of elongating a goat's back by means of a spit, on which we care not to be particular.

As Mr. Arabin had already moved out of the parsonage of St. Ewold's, that scheme of elongating the dining-room was of course abandoned; but he would have refurnished the whole deanery had he been allowed.

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