elongate

== English == === Etymology === From Late Middle English elongat, elongate (“kept away; different or remote in nature”, adjective), borrowed from Late Latin ēlongātus (“having been stretched out, elongated; prolonged, protracted; having been kept aloof, removed”) + Middle English -at (suffix forming participles). Ēlongātus is the perfect passive participle of ēlongō (“to prolong, protract; to keep aloof, remove; to depart, withdraw”), from Latin ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + longus (“extended, long, prolonged; far”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”, adjective)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Doublet of eloign. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈlɒŋ.ɡeɪt/, (verb also) /ˈiːˌlɒŋ.ɡeɪt/, /ˈɛ-/ (General American) IPA(key): /əˈlɔŋˌɡeɪt/, /i-/, (cot–caught merger) /-ˈlɑŋ-/ (Indic) IPA(key): /ᵻˈlɔnˌɡeʈ/ Hyphenation: elong‧ate === Adjective === elongate (comparative more elongate, superlative most elongate) Elongated, extended, lengthened; (especially biology) having a long and slender form. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === elongate (third-person singular simple present elongates, present participle elongating, simple past and past participle elongated) (transitive) To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen. Synonyms: draw out, prolong, stretch; see also Thesaurus:lengthen Antonyms: see Thesaurus:shorten (obsolete) Followed by from: to move to or place (something) at a distance from another thing; to remove. (intransitive) To become long or longer, for example, by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated. (botany) Of a plant part: to grow long; also, to have a long and slender or tapering form. (obsolete) Followed by from: to be at a distance, or move away, from a thing; to depart; (specifically, astronomy) of a planet, star, or other astronomical object: to appear to recede from the sun or a fixed point in the celestial sphere. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== elongation ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === elongation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia T[homas] B[lount] (1656), “Elongate”, in Glossographia: […], London: […] T[homas] Newcomb, and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley, […], and George Sawbridge […], →OCLC, signature [O5], verso, column 2: “[T]o remove afar off, to defer or prolong.” Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “To ELO′NGATE”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1: “To go off to a diſtance from any thing.” === Anagrams === Eagleton == Latin == === Verb === ēlongāte second-person plural present active imperative of ēlongō == Spanish == === Verb === elongate second-person singular voseo imperative of elongar combined with te