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Oblong
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- 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 Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
"Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid."
- 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."
- 1 deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction wordnet
- 2 (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides wordnet
- 1 Something with an oblong shape.
- 2 a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation wordnet
- 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 An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
- 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 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
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
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