oblong
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Inflected forms:
form: more oblong
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oblong
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: oblongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oblongs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oblonging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oblonged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oblonged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
pos: adj
examples: The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
gloss: Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
pos: adj
examples: Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid.
gloss: Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
pos: adj
examples: Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music.
Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell.
gloss: Something with an oblong shape.
pos: noun
examples: They sat at the tables—I suppose you know how they are arranged, as a sort of hollow oblong, with the auctioneer at one end and the attendant showing the coins up and down in the middle?
gloss: A rectangle with length and width that are different.
pos: noun
examples: Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.
gloss: An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
pos: noun
gloss: To extend so as to form an oblong shape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]; by John Denmans hom lot on the north sid the front by a salt crek the reare to the comon which hom lot with all the upland oblonging to it conteining to about fourtie acers more or lese with about one acer & half of salt medo liing before the said house[…]
That the Gilbert tract, according to his opinion and the law, ought to have been oblonged up the creek. That by oblonging it across the creek, it afforded Elijah Robertson, who superintended the surveying, an opportunity of laying a warrant not located there, for himself, and thereby takes 5,000 acres.
gloss: To give an oblong shape to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A. Why, by dropping them off of cars or dropping them off of trucks or some way it would oblong them .
His silhouette: broad shoulders, big legs, a square face oblonged by a crest of thick hair and almost lantern jaw.
And there were suddenly berries where there had been none before, bright red and bright blue, all with a careless water drop oblonging their form.
[…] the venue (a private country club nestled in the woods outside Cincinnati, with a dance hall whose ceilings went straight to the moon), to the ice cubes (truly cubed, not oblonged or crushed, and king-sized cubes for the bourbon rocks),
Related words: oblongate
oblate
obloid
prolate
rectangle
Derived words: oblongish
oblongly
oblongness
oblong number
suboblong
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