Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or grow longer.
- adjective Made longer; extended.
- adjective Having more length than width; slender.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lengthened; extended or produced; attenuated; specifically, in zoology and botany, disproportionately or comparatively long or extended: as, a worm has an elongate body; a proboscis is an elongate snout; elongate antennæ are about as long as the body of an insect; elongate elytra extend beyond the abdomen; an elongate flower-stem.
- To make long or longer; lengthen; extend, stretch, or draw out in length: as, to
elongate a rope by splicing. - To remove further off.
- To recede; move to a greater distance; particularly, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
- adjective Drawn out at length; elongated.
- transitive verb To lengthen; to extend; to stretch.
- transitive verb obsolete To remove further off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
lengthened ,extended . - adjective
slender . - verb To make
long orlonger bypulling andstretching ; to makeelongated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- adjective (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
- adjective having notably more length than width; being long and slender
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Second, the best CWBs, like this one, have their belt loops higher than your waist, a neat trick to elongate your legs.
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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.
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Another reason could be because of a splay foot where the ligaments weaken and the foot can elongate and widen.
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“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”.
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ALWAYS extend at least one-eighth of an inch outside of the outer corner to elongate the eye.
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These elongate the front of the foot and the leg, and will come in very handy with the new maxi.
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I will endeavor to preserve them as they elongate; protecting them from the distortion of multiple seasons.
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ALWAYS extend at least one-eighth of an inch outside of the outer corner to elongate the eye.
Paul Venoit: Smokey Eyes Still Smolder Thousands of Years Later Paul Venoit 2011
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I will endeavor to preserve them as they elongate; protecting them from the distortion of multiple seasons.
Recordatio Jessica 2009
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