Oblong
['ɒblɒŋ] or ['ɑblɔŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation.
(adj.) deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction .
(adj.) (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides .
Typist: Susan--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
(n.) A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.
Typed by Keller
Definition
adj. long in one way: longer than broad.—n. (geom.) a rectangle longer than broad: any oblong figure.—adj. Ob′longish.—adv. Ob′longly.—n. Ob′longness.
Edited by Gillian
Examples
- The above is sufficient for two pads, which should be made into an oblong or diamond shape, with linen or muslin, and worn over the pit of the stomach. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The window, placed at the side of the oblong, looked to the blank wall of a similar projection, not above ten feet distant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Make an oblong pad and wear over the kidneys. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- From the scabbard on the right of his saddle projected the stock and the long oblong clip of a short automatic rifle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- At that moment I saw the reflection of the visage and features quite distinctly in the dark oblong glass. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The tree is distinguished by the great thickness and sponginess of its bark, and by the leaves being evergreen, oblong, somewhat oval, downy underneath, and waved. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He saw the oblong double line of men and horses dark against the snow as they forced at an angle up the hill. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was an unpretentious oblong wooden structure erected in the laboratory yard, and had a movable roof in the central part. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The bark is removed by a kind of ax, parallel cuts being carried around the tree transversely and united by others in a longitudinal direction, so as to produce oblong sheets of bark. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The first harmony of 400, as has been already remarked, probably represents the rulers; the second and oblong harmony of 7600, the people. Plato. The Republic.
- The whole number will then be 17,500 = a square of 100, and an oblong of 100 by 75. Plato. The Republic.
- The house loomed obscure and uninhabited; only an oblong gleam above the door spoke of provisional occupancy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- When he has helped himself, Phil follows suit, sitting at the extreme end of the little oblong table and taking his plate on his knees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Make an oblong pad and wear well up to the throat. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- That something, comrade, I discovered to be a small flat oblong cash-box. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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