oblong

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having a length and width that are different

   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

   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.
   • Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell.
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   1. 4

      Something with an oblong shape.

      • 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?
   2. 5

      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.
   3. 6

      An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.

   4. 7

      To extend so as to form an oblong shape.

   5. 8

      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 .
      • 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 neighborhood

• neighboroblongate
• neighboroblate
• neighborobloid
• neighborprolate
• neighborrectangle