Elongate \E*lon"gate\, a. [LL. elongatus.]
Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. "An
elongate form." --Earle.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Elongate \E*lon"gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elongated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Elongating.] [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.
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2. To remove further off. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Elongate \E*lon"gate\, v. i.
To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede
apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. [R.]
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elongate
adj 1: of a leaf shape; long and narrow [syn: linear]
2: 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" [syn: elongated]
v : make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the
fabric" [syn: stretch]
WordNet (r) 2.0
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "elongate":
continue, drag out, draw, draw out, elongated, extend, extended,
lengthen, lengthen out, lengthened, lengthy, let out, long,
produce, prolong, prolongate, protract, pull, spin out, strain,
stretch, stretch out, string, string out, tauten, tense, tighten
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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