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Elongate vs Lengthening - What's the difference?

elongate | lengthening |

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

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • lengthened, extended.
  • slender.
  • Verb

    (elongat)
  • 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.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    lengthening

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens
  • Verb

    (head)