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ELONGATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having notably more length than width; being long and slender
Example:
the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
Synonyms:
elongate; elongated
Classified under:
Similar:
long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a leaf shape) long and narrow
Synonyms:
elongate; linear
Classified under:
Similar:
simple; unsubdivided ((botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they elongate ... he / she / it elongates
Past simple: elongated
Past participle: elongated
-ing form: elongating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make long or longer by pulling and stretching
Example:
stretch the fabric
Synonyms:
elongate; stretch
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "elongate" is one way to...):
lengthen (make longer)
Cause:
stretch (become longer by being stretched and pulled)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "elongate"):
shoetree; tree (stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
elongation (the act of lengthening something)
elongation (an addition to the length of something)
elongation (the quality of being elongated)
Context examples:
It is characterized by the presence of elongated, spindle-shaped neoplastic glial cells that form storiform patterns or interlacing fascicular arrangements.
(Pituicytoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Fibers which are elongated and cylindrical in shape and less than 100 nm in length.
(Nanofiber, NCI Thesaurus)
Elongated cells in the seminiferous tubules to which spermatids are attached during spermatogenesis.
(Murine Sertoli Cells, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
The Hanford pig is white with an elongated snout and has the largest heart and blood vessels of all pig breeds.
(Hanford Pig, NCI Thesaurus)
A larger, elongated bone in the extremity.
(Long Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
During early development of the nervous system, neurons elongate their axons towards their targets and establish and maintain synapses through formation of cell-cell adhesions.
(Cell Adhesion Molecule Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
A small domestic mammal of the type Mustela putorious, with an elongated body and brown, black, white, or mixed fur.
(Ferret, NCI Thesaurus)
It appears to be a dark, reddish, highly-elongated rocky or high-metal-content object.
(ESO Observations Show First Interstellar Asteroid is Like Nothing Seen Before, ESO)
At roughly 30 inches long, it would have lacked the typical elongated shark's profile, instead having a stubby snout and large, forward-facing eyes.
(Ancient sharks likely more diverse than previously thought, National Science Foundation)
For example, when the elongated cloud is facing us, more of its surface area is exposed and the signal is greater.
(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)
