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Elongated vs Kashida - What's the difference?

elongated | kashida |

As an adjective elongated

is extensive in length.

As a verb elongated

is (elongate).

As a noun kashida is

(uncountable) a type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (perso)-arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.

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

    kashida

    English

    (wikipedia kashida)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.
  • * 2008 , Thomas Powell, CSS and XHTML: The Complete Reference
    • Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic writing systems to elongate characters...
  • (countable) A character representing this elongation.
  • * 1994 , Apple Computer, Inc, Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX typography
    • Note that "stretching" in this case can mean addition of white space, addition of connecting glyphs, such as kashidas ...
  • * 2002 , John Ayres, The tomes of Delphi: Win32 Shell API, Windows 2000 edition
    • However, there is no option for determining whether or not the Arabic Kashidas will be ignored; they will always be ignored in Arabic character sets.

    Synonyms

    * tatweel, tatwil

    See also

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