Elongate vs Lengthening - What's the difference?
elongate | lengthening |
To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.
To depart to, or be at, a distance; especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
(obsolete) To remove further off.
As verbs the difference between elongate and lengthening
is that elongate is to make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated while lengthening is .As an adjective elongate
is lengthened, extended.As a noun lengthening is
(linguistics) a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens.elongate
English
Verb
(elongat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)