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Elongated vs Elongates - What's the difference?

elongated | elongates |

As verbs the difference between elongated and elongates

is that elongated is (elongate) while elongates is (elongate).

As an adjective elongated

is extensive in length.

elongated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • extensive in length
  • stretched
  • (of a polyhedron) Having been modified by placing an prism in the middle of the polyhedron.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (elongate)

    • Derived terms

    *gyroelongated

    elongates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (elongate)

    • 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)