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# elongate

«elongate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make something longer, or to become longer** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (elongate, elongates, elongated, elongating); adjective (elongated)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make something longer, or to become longer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/#m1)

2) elongated (adjective): long and thin, longer than usual. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, cells, shadows and shapes elongate; in art, elongated figures look tall and thin; in maths, an elongated shape is stretched in one direction; phrases: «elongated shadows», «an elongated shape».

### examples

- Our shadows elongate as the sun goes down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/#x1)
- A giraffe has an elongated neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/#x2)
- The cell elongates before it splits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/#x3)
- The artist painted elongated faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/#x4)
- Stretch the dough to elongate it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/#x5)
- An ellipse is like an elongated circle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: elongation. Pronounced EE-long-gate. Similar: stretch, lengthen.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «elongate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/elongate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.