Elongated vs Shortened - What's the difference?
elongated | shortened |
extensive in length
stretched
(of a polyhedron) Having been modified by placing an prism in the middle of the polyhedron.
(elongate)
(shorten)
To make shorter; to abbreviate.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
To become shorter.
To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
* Dryden
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
* Dryden
(nautical) To take in the slack of (a rope).
(nautical) To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
As verbs the difference between elongated and shortened
is that elongated is (elongate) while shortened is (shorten).As an adjective elongated
is extensive in length.elongated
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*gyroelongatedshortened
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*shorten
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(en verb)- York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.
- Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears.
- to shorten an allowance of food
- Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
