Elongate

Elongate - Other Definitions

• (a.) To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
  
  
• (a.) To remove further off.
  
  
• (v. i.) To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
  
  
• (a.) Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.