Elongate vs Protract - What's the difference?
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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.
To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
*2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), ‘The Men Who Made England’, The Atlantic , Mar 2010:
*:Still, form these extraordinary pages you can learn that it's very bad to be burned alive on a windy day, because the breeze will keep flicking the flames away from you and thus protract the process.
To use a protractor.
(surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
To extend; to protrude.
As verbs the difference between elongate and protract
is that elongate is to make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated while protract is to draw out; to extend, especially in duration.As an adjective elongate
is lengthened, extended.elongate
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(elongat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
protract
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(en verb)- to protract a decision or duty
- (Shakespeare)
- A cat can protract and retract its claws.