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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
elongated
    adj 1: drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated
           Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this
           year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate
           larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page"
           [syn: elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged]
    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: elongate,
       elongated]

2. 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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To remove further off. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
      [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
elongated \elongated\ adj.
   1. having a length noticeably longer than the width.

   Syn: elongate.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

   2. rendered longer.

   Syn: lengthened.
        [PJC]

Thesaurus Results for elongated:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drawn-out, elliptical, elongate, extended, lengthened, lengthy, oblong, oblongated, oblongitudinal, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, rectangular, spun out, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, strung out, taut, tense, tight
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