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Elongate   /ɪlˈɔŋgeɪt/   Listen
verb
Elongate  v. t.  (past & past part. elongated; pres. part. elongating)  
1.
To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
2.
To remove further off. (Obs.)


Elongate  v. i.  To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit. (R.)


adjective
Elongate  adj.  Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf. "An elongate form."





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... Jaboo country on the Bight of Benin in West Africa, Daniell stated, it was considered ornamental to elongate the labia and the clitoris artificially; small weights were appended to the clitoris and gradually increased. (W.F. Daniell, Topography of Gulf of ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... formed, the body became flat and closely attached to the glass slide. In a short time one of the pseudopodia became longer than the rest; the body became more swollen; the pseudopodia were gradually drawn in, with the exception of the more elongate one; this became active in movement and finer in diameter, until ultimately it formed a single flagellum at the anterior of a small monadiform flagellate. The process was repeated two or three times under my observation, so that I am convinced that it was not ...
— Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 • Gary N. Galkins
... fresh, are indeed delicious. They are richer than hens' eggs and of a finer favour, and each one completely fills an ordinary teacup, and forms with bread or rice a very good meal. The colour of the shell is a pale brick red, or very rarely pure white. They are elongate and very slightly smaller at one end, from four to four and a half inches long by two and a quarter or two and ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... was melancholy too, began to hum And elongate the accordion with a preluding thumb. Then sighs of amorosity from Sally L. exhaled, And her music apparatus sympathetically wailed. "In the gloaming, O my darling!" rose that wild impassioned strain, And her ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... the imagination is a good preparation for the next demand upon it. Conceive a dichotomous tree—one that always divides into two branches—to pass through a plane. We should have, as a plane section, a circle of changing size, which would elongate and divide into two circles, each of which would do the same. This reminds us of the segmentation of cell life observed under the microscope, as though a four-dimensional figure were registering its passage through ...
— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon


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