Elongate vs Wiredraw - What's the difference?
elongate | wiredraw |
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 stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.
(obsolete) To stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.
*, I.56:
*:I am of opinion that the uncontrouled libertie, that all men have to wrest, dissipate, and wyredraw a word so religious and important, to so many severall idiomes, hath much more danger than profit following it.
In obsolete terms the difference between elongate and wiredraw
is that elongate is to remove further off while wiredraw is to stretch (words, a meaning etc.) to suit one's own purpose.As verbs the difference between elongate and wiredraw
is that elongate is to make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated while wiredraw is to stretch (some physical thing) out, as though drawing wire; to elongate.As an adjective elongate
is lengthened, extended.elongate
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(elongat)- (Sir Thomas Browne)