elongate

英 [ˈiːlɒŋɡeɪt]

美 [ɪˈlɔːŋɡeɪt]

v.  (使)变长，伸长; 拉长

现在分词：elongating　第三人称单数：elongates　过去分词：elongated　过去式：elongated　复数：elongates　

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BNC.33998 / COCA.24478

牛津词典

verb

• （使）变长，伸长；拉长
  to become longer; to make sth longer

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG （使）拉长;（使）延长
  If youelongatesomething or if itelongates, you stretch it so that it becomes longer.
  1. 'Mom,' she intoned, elongating the word...
     “妈妈，”她拖长了声音，平静地说道。
  2. Corn is treated when the stalk starts to elongate.
     在玉米秆开始拔节时，给玉米打药。

英英释义

verb

• make long or longer by pulling and stretching
  1. stretch the fabric
  Synonym:stretch

adj

• having notably more length than width
  1. an elongate tail tapering to a point
  2. the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
  Synonym:elongated
• (of a leaf shape) long and narrow
  Synonym:linear

双语例句

• Experimented with losing their legs and becoming elongate, crawling creatures.
  尝试丢掉四肢，变成长长地、爬行地动物。
• Indicates a weld in a flared-bevel groove. Stems will elongate when height is increased.
  指示在喇叭形坡口焊接。杆可随着高度的增加而拉长。
• Wear wide-leg trousers to elongate your frame.
  穿宽腿裤可以拉长你的身体框架。
• Small extremely elongate earth-living centipedes.
  小型的极端地伸长的土生蜈蚣。
• Fern with elongate silvery outgrowths enclosing the developing spores. ( botany) of or relating to ascospores.
  包围孢子生长的一种蕨类植物。（植物学）属于或与囊孢子有关。
• Elongate olivine crystals were aligned to produce a flow texture as this liquid phase crystallized.
  在液相结晶时，长形橄榄石晶体的成行排列产生了流状构造。
• Elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced.
  长鱼，没有骨盆鳍和带状物，或已经退化。
• Inflorescence a terminal open panicle with elongate central axis;
  花序一顶生开阔的的圆锥花序具拉长主轴线；
• Elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes.
  细长扁平有点象鳗的鱼。
• Flesh of eel; elongate fatty-fleshed fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels usually smoked or pickled.
  鳗鱼的肉；在欧洲和美洲淡水中发现的含脂肪多的长条鱼；大鳗鱼通常烟熏或腌渍。