oblong means having a length and width that are different; not square or circular. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 71 out of 100.
oblong is pronounced /ˈɒblɒŋ/.
adj
- Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.“The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.”
- Roughly rectangular or elliptical.“Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid.”
- Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.“Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music.”
noun
- Something with an oblong shape.“They sat at the tables—I suppose you know how they are arranged, as a sort of hollow oblong, with the auctioneer at one end and the attendant showing the coins up and down in the middle?”
- A rectangle with length and width that are different.“Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.”
- An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
verb
- To extend so as to form an oblong shape.“[…]; by John Denmans hom lot on the north sid the front by a salt crek the reare to the comon which hom lot with all the upland oblonging to it conteining to about fourtie acers more or lese with about one acer & half of salt medo liing before the said house[…]”
- To give an oblong shape to.“A. Why, by dropping them off of cars or dropping them off of trucks or some way it would oblong them .”