elongate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make long or longer by pulling and stretching
stretch the fabric
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- stretch causes
- stretching derivation
- stretch derivation
- elongation derivation
- elongation derivation
- stretcher derivation
- elongation derivation
Sense 2 adjective
(of a leaf shape) long and narrow
Related & opposite
- unsubdivided similar to
Sense 3 adjective
having notably more length than width; being long and slender
an elongate tail tapering to a point
Related & opposite
- long similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | causes | Related & opposite | stretch |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stretching |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stretch |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | elongation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | elongation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | stretcher |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | elongation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | lengthen |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shoetree |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unsubdivided |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | long |