English Dictionary

elongate

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪ.ˈlɔŋ.ˌɡeɪt/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 廃用

(transitive) To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated. / (intransitive) To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）引っ張って伸ばす、または長くする。 / （自動詞）引っ張られて伸びる、または長くなる。

The potter asked the apprentice to elongate the wet clay into a long, graceful neck.

陶芸家は見習いに濡れた粘土を伸ばして長く優雅な首にするように頼んだ。

意味（1）

(transitive) To make long or longer by pulling and stretching; to make elongated.

When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them; and thus irritated they contract as before.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To become long or longer by being pulled or stretched; to become elongated.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reasonable person over to his opinion, he ought to shew, that the necks of mankind have been gradually elongating …

意味（3）

(transitive, obsolete) To move to or place at a distance (from something).

… let the common house of easement [i.e. the outhouse] be ouer some water, or els elongated from the house.

意味（4）

(intransitive, obsolete) To depart to, or be at, a distance (from something); especially, to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.

… about Capo Frio in Brasilia, the south point varieth twelve degrees unto the West, and about the mouth of the Straites of Magellan five or six; but elongating from the coast of Brasilia toward the shore of Africa it varyeth Eastward,

elongates （ present singular third-person ）

elongating （ participle present ）

elongated （ participle past ）

elongated （ past ）