单词 | elongated |
释义 | elongatedadj. 1. Made longer; drawn out or extended to an unusual or unnatural length. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [adjective] > increasing in length > increased in length extendedc1450 deduit1485 prolonged1557 produced1578 protensed1578 extent1641 prolated1715 lengthened1744 elongated1751 protracted1785 drawn-out1834 1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad iii. 83 O'er all her Limbs were seen Th' elongated papillæ of the skin. 1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. vi. 217 An elongated maxim of Rochefoucault's. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth I. 251 He stood transfixed..sudden horror in his elongated countenance. 1870 F. Hall in H. H. Wilson tr. Vishṅu Puráṅa V. 68 [Bhíshmaka is] the elongated form of Bhíshma. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 26 Sept. 6/3 The lover of elongated farces. 2. That is excessively long in proportion to its breadth, as if drawn out or extended. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [adjective] longOE eavelonga1387 long-warpeda1400 oblong?a1425 long-shaped1575 longwise1600 oblongish1665 elongate1828 elongated1828 oblongitudinal1892 1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 49 Two of these edges..present anteriorly an elongated surface [Fr. une surface allongée]. 1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xxi. 305 One [species of crocodile]..has an elongated snout. 1863 M. J. Berkeley Handbk. Brit. Mosses iii. 13 The stem..consists more or less of elongated cells. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 131 The heart, an elongated tube. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.1751 |
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