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Oblong vs Elongate - What's the difference?

oblong | elongate |

As adjectives the difference between oblong and elongate

is that oblong is longer than wide while elongate is lengthened, extended.

As a noun oblong

is something with an oblong shape.

As a verb elongate is

to make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.

oblong

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Longer than wide.
  • Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something with an oblong shape.
  • A rectangle having length greater than width.

    • Related terms

    * oblate

    See also

    * prolate * rectangle ----

    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)