| 单词 | oblong |
| 释义 | oblong (once / 1626 pages) adjn If you take a rectangle or a circle and stretch it out, you end up with an elongated shape called an oblong. If you stretch a circle until it becomes an oval, you've made it oblong. First consider the Latin word longus, which means "long," and the prefix "ob," which refers to some direction. It makes sense, then, that an oblong should be an elongated shape, stretched long in one direction. It can be used a noun or an adjective. If your dining room table is an oblong, you're going to need an oblong tablecloth. WORD FAMILYoblong: oblongness, oblongs USAGE EXAMPLESTheir most distinguishing traits were conspicuously sharp teeth, barbed tales and oblong heads that looked like something out of the Paleolithic Era. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) They sit by the open window, on either side of an oblong patch of sunlight. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) He came up with oblong, nitrocellulose cases filled with thickened kerosene with a small time-delay igniter cemented along one side. Time(Oct 25, 2016) 1adj deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction Syn long primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified 2adj (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides Syn simple, unsubdivided (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions 3n a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation Hyper plane figure, two-dimensional figure a two-dimensional shape |
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