oblong
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈɑːblɒŋ/
- Specialized
:
rectángulo
- OK, sure, some things are spheres and some things are oblong, but what about something in between?
- oblong in shape
- small oblong
- plastic oblong
Examples
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She drew an oblong figure on the paper, clearly illustrating the difference between a rectangle and a square.
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I spend most of my time on the addressograph plates, small, inky oblongs that clacked like false teeth as I checked to see if they were in zip code order.
Fiction book (2002) -
The players take the square and place it on the oblong.
Academic text (2004) -
I watch the oblong of sunlight move down and across the far wall until it lights on her.
Fiction book (2001) -
In an oblong of window light, I saw the girl was Retta.
Fiction book (1996) -
An oblong, almost square, 26 x 27 inches, it sat on its long side.
Fiction book (1995) -
The kitchen table around which they sat was an oblong of wood more imposing than most people's dining room tables.
Fiction book (1996) -
Feeling unfamiliar with her own house, Kathryn walked into the front room and squinted at the six oblongs of diffuse light from the windows.
Fiction book (1998) -
His father had given him and John their own tickets to hold, and jouncing along in the back seat, they squinted at the blue and white cardboard oblongs, discussing the numbers and letters that stood for what they were about to experience.
Fiction book (1992) -
Our table had an absurd centerpiece that consisted of a rubber mermaid trapped in an oblong of frozen plastic, adorned with snakes and roses.
Fiction book (1999)
Antonyms
Compounds
A common fern with narrow leaves and brown stems that grows on rocks in northern forests
- Specialized
A leaf longer than it is wide with nearly parallel sides and rounded ends
How Elongated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word oblong comes from the Latin parts ob- and longus, where longus means 'long' and is the same root as the English long. So an oblong is a flat shape that is 'longer in one direction', like a rectangle with unequal sides.