Oblong

/ˈɒblɒŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
2. Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
3. (bookbinding) Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
4. Something with an oblong shape.
5. A rectangle with length and width that are different.
6. An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
7. (transitive) To extend so as to form an oblong shape.
8. (transitive) To give an oblong shape to.

Example Sentences

The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.

Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid.

Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music.

Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell.

They sat at the tables—I suppose you know how they are arranged, as a sort of hollow oblong, with the auctioneer at one end and the attendant showing the coins up and down in the middle?

Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.

[…]; by John Denmans hom lot on the north sid the front by a salt crek the reare to the comon which hom lot with all the upland oblonging to it conteining to about fourtie acers more or lese with about one acer & half of salt medo liing before the said house[…]

That the Gilbert tract, according to his opinion and the law, ought to have been oblonged up the creek. That by oblonging it across the creek, it afforded Elijah Robertson, who superintended the surveying, an opportunity of laying a warrant not located there, for himself, and thereby takes 5,000 acres.

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Word Forms

• more oblong
• most oblong
• oblongs
• oblonging
• oblonged

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