| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To lengthen, prolong or protract.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To extend, stretch, expand, broaden or enlarge. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To dilute or adulterate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To extract. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To increase, aggrandize, augment, deepen or swell. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To widen or dilate.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Present participle conjugation of the verb elongate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (elongate) | 1. Make long or longer by pulling and stretching.[Wordnet]. 2. To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: elongating, elongated, elongates, elongator, elongators, elongatingly and elongatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ELONGATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ELONGATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Lengthening; extending.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of elongate. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: elongate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Elongate glassy perchlet | The elongate glassy perchlet (Chanda nama) is a species of freshwater fish in the Asiatic glassfish family (family Ambassidae) of order Perciformes. The only species of genus Chanda Hamilton, 1822, it is native to an area of south Asia from Pakistan to Burma, in the Indomalaya ecozone. (references) | ||
| Elongate leaf | A long slender leaf. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: elongate
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Elongate conic (adj.) | Environment | Conic spire with an apical angle of about 30. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: elongate | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Elongate glassy perchlet | 6 | Elongate dory | 5 | |
| Elongate dory | 5 | Elongate glassy perchlet | 6 | |
| Elongate mbuna | 5 | Elongate mbuna | 5 | |
| Elongate nothobranch | 5 | Elongate nothobranch | 5 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
