oblong
IPA: ˈɑbɫɔŋ
noun
- Something with an oblong shape.
- A rectangle with length and width that are different.
- An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
verb
- To extend so as to form an oblong shape.
- To give an oblong shape to.
adjective
- Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
- Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
- (bookmaking) Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
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Examples of "oblong" in Sentences
- The oblong is the best decorative art _form_, as a rule.
- * Oblong Face Shape: Long faces are described as oblong - long and narrow.
- The UFO was described as oblong with a curved front and a series of small nozzles at the rear.
- Above the oblong was a salamander, the Kings particular device, with many other ornaments appropriate to the Ionic architecture of the whole design.
- Above the oblong was a salamander, the Kings particular device, with many other ornaments appropriate to the Ionic architecture of the whole design.
- It was followed by three others, forming, as it were, the four corners of an oblong, which is two hundred and seventy feet long and one hundred and twenty wide.
- The bark on the older surface sheds in short oblong irregular scales or plates that detach perhaps at both ends and often at the sides, clinging by the middle until the curl loosens them and they fall to the ground.
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