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• v  make long or longer by pulling and stretching
• s  drawn out or made longer spatially
  Picasso's elongated Don Quixote
• s  having notably more length than width; being long and slender
  the old man's gaunt and elongated frame

• More masculine than the slender, elongated Signature, Ascent is a fit for men who collect cars and wear watches by Breitling or Jaeger-LeCoultre.
• People with the disorder tend to have elongated faces and prominent ears; about half of them fall somewhere on the autism spectrum and most are mentally retarded or learning .
• On the late Boston Transcript, a feature writer, with a fondness for using three words where one would do, once referred to bananas as "elongated yellow fruit.

• elongate
• stretch
• extended
• lengthened
• prolonged

News & Articles

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• Colliding Galaxy Pair Takes Flight
  This collision between a spiral galaxy and an elliptical galaxy resembles a celestial bird. The gravitational pull has stretched the spiral into an elongated shape. Lying 326 million light-years away, this colliding galaxy pair, known as Arp 142, is captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
  June 20, 2013 - Newswise
• Jonny Gomes, Red Sox End Long, Eventful, Productive Day at Fenway Park in Dramatic Fashion
  BOSTON — It was long. It was eventful. And, in the end, it was productive. The Red Sox overcame fatigue, rain, their own shortcomings and even traffic en route to sweeping Tuesday’s doubleheader against the Rays. The Sox notched a 5-1 win in an elongated Game 1, and they finished off the action-packed twin bill […]
  June 19, 2013 - New England Sports Network
• Tuesday afternoon On Demand STORMTracker Weather
  A broad elongated mid-level closed low and trough is gradually turning inland into the pacific NW this afternoon and wrap around showers and thunderstorms are developing in far western Montana. There is a chance that a few severe thunderstorms will develop just west of Butte and more likely in the Missoula, Kalispell and Great Falls areas into the evening. For SW Montana this includes Anaconda ...
  June 18, 2013 - KBZK Bozeman

Quotes

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• Geoffrey Marcy in The Australian
  Most of the planets are not in circular orbits around the host star but in elongated ones called elliptical orbits,Prof Marcy said.
• Mike Piazza in ESPN
  There have been a lot of postseasons determined where one teams has had an elongated period of time off, which takes away from your intensity,Piazza said. "The extreme is not having enough time. There's a fine line there with two or three...
• Terry Francona in USA Today
  Francona said the switch isn't permanent, but he is attempting "to get the lineup as elongated as we can."