elongate
IPA: ɪɫˈɔŋgeɪt
verb
- (transitive) To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
- (intransitive) To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.
- (transitive, obsolete) To move to or place at a distance (from something).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to appear to recede from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
adjective
- Lengthened, extended, elongated; relatively long and slender.
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Examples of "elongate" in Sentences
- The rope was elongated.
- The body of the bleak is elongated.
- An elongated flame aureole is popular.
- It is elongated on the east and the west.
- The elongated channels extend throughout the ribs.
- It is the dual of the elongated triangular tiling.
- The inferior appendage is elongated and cylindrical.
- Attached to the side of the post is an elongated turnbuckle.
- An elongated slot is in the tip segment along the length of the shaft.
- "elongate" the bankruptcy to earn a bonus of as much as $52.5 million if it can raise $45
- ALWAYS extend at least one-eighth of an inch outside of the outer corner to elongate the eye.
- These elongate the front of the foot and the leg, and will come in very handy with the new maxi.
- I will endeavor to preserve them as they elongate; protecting them from the distortion of multiple seasons.
- Another reason could be because of a splay foot where the ligaments weaken and the foot can elongate and widen.
- Second, the best CWBs, like this one, have their belt loops higher than your waist, a neat trick to elongate your legs.
- The sexiest mini-wedge out there is without question Sigerson Morrison's "Kramer," with it's Mondrian-like cutouts in black suede, £410, which elongate the foot and show just enough racy toe cleavage to excite even the least ardent foot fetishist amongst us.
- “We had always expected a gap-filler with typically intermediate features such as a moderately elongate tail – neither long nor short – but the strange thing about Darwinopterus is that it has a head and neck just like that of advanced pterosaurs, while the rest of the skeleton, including a very long tail, is identical to that of primitive forms”.