Elongate vs Tripus - What's the difference?
elongate | tripus |
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.
A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, .
A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
(zoology, in cypriniform fishes) The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.
As an adjective elongate
is lengthened, extended.As a verb elongate
is to make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.As a noun tripus is
a bachelor of arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos,.elongate
English
Verb
(elongat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)
tripus
English
Noun
(tripodes)Synonyms
* bachelor of the stool, (equivalent at Oxford University), tripos * (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities) tripod * (bone in fishes) malleus, malleus WeberiAnagrams
*References
* “?tripus]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989 *
The Century Dictionary Online*
Dictionary of Ichthyology, Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister*
A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Henderson I. F., Henderson W. D., BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ISBN: 1113194219, 9781113194213, p. 174----