Elongate

['iːlɒŋgeɪt] or [ɪ'lɔŋɡet]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) make long or longer by pulling and stretching; 'stretch the fabric'.

(adj.) 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' .

乔迪校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

(a.) To remove further off.

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

(a.) Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.

埃尔希編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Lengthen, stretch, draw out, lengthen out.

格雷西校對

解釋/意思:

v.t. to make longer: to extend.—p.adjs. Elong′ate -d.—n. Elongā′tion act of lengthening out: distance.

校對:米里亚姆