Oblong

//ˈɒblɒŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.

    "The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars."

  2. 2
    Roughly rectangular or elliptical.

    "Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid."

  3. 3
    Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.

    "Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music."

Adjective
  1. 1
    deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction wordnet
  2. 2
    (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Something with an oblong shape.
  2. 2
    a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation wordnet
  3. 3
    A rectangle with length and width that are different.

    "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."

  4. 4
    An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
Verb
  1. 1
    To extend so as to form an oblong shape.

    "[…]; 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[…]"

  2. 2
    To give an oblong shape to.

    "A. Why, by dropping them off of cars or dropping them off of trucks or some way it would oblong them ."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.

Etymology 2

From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.

Etymology 3

From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.

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