/ˈɑblɑŋ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger, dialectal) of Canada
/ˈɒblɒŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Meanings
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. 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 19:
Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid. 1902, A. W. Peart, “Blackberries: Notes by A. W. Peart”, in Annual Report, page 41:
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. 1971, Donald William Krummel, Oblong Format in Early Music Books, page 316:
Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell. 2017, Sean Gallagher, Secular Renaissance Music: Forms and Functions:
eo longforma (longer than wide) · nrf bêlong (longer than wide) · la oblongus (longer than wide) · fr oblong (roughly rectangular or elliptical) · de oblong (roughly rectangular or elliptical) · sv avlång (roughly rectangular or elliptical) · nrf bêlong (roughly rectangular or elliptical) · de quer (longer than wide) · nn avlang (longer than wide) · fr oblong (longer than wide) · ru вытянутый (longer than wide) · nl langwerpig (longer than wide) · sh duguljast (longer than wide) · da langagtig (longer than wide) · da aflang (longer than wide) · ca oblong (longer than wide) · de lang (longer than wide) · de länglich (longer than wide) · ru продолговатый (longer than wide) · el στενόμακρος (longer than wide) · nb avlang (longer than wide) · is ílangur (longer than wide) · pl podłużny (longer than wide) · fi soikea (roughly rectangular or elliptical) · cs podlouhlý (longer than wide) · bg удължен (longer than wide) · mi tapawhā hāngai (longer than wide) · ka მოგრძო (longer than wide) · bg продълговат (longer than wide) · es oblongo (roughly rectangular or elliptical) · de rechteckig (roughly rectangular or elliptical) · fi pitkulainen (longer than wide) · eo oblonga (longer than wide) · ka წაგრძელებული (longer than wide) · la oblongus (roughly rectangular or elliptical) · pt oblongado (longer than wide) · de breit (longer than wide) · ro prelung (longer than wide) · sv avlång (longer than wide) · es oblongo (longer than wide) · mk долгманест (longer than wide) · grc στενόμακρος (longer than wide) · pt oblongo (longer than wide) · hy երկարավուն (longer than wide)
oblong en · NOUN
Pronunciation
/ˈɒblɒŋ/ (New-Zealand)
/ˈɔblɔŋ/ (Australia)
/ˈɑblɔŋ/ (US, dialectal) without the cot–caught merger
/ˈɑblɑŋ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger, dialectal) of Canada
/ˈɒblɒŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Meanings
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? 1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
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. 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 88:
An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
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Translations (8)
nl oblong (with an oblong shape) · de Rechteck (with an oblong shape) · de Oblongum (with an oblong shape) · la rectangulum oblongum (with an oblong shape) · de längliches Rechteck (with an oblong shape) · de Oblong (with an oblong shape) · nl rechthoek (with an oblong shape) · de Quadratum oblongum (with an oblong shape)
oblong en · VERB
Pronunciation
/ˈɒblɒŋ/ (New-Zealand)
/ˈɔblɔŋ/ (Australia)
/ˈɑblɔŋ/ (US, dialectal) without the cot–caught merger
/ˈɑblɑŋ/ (General-American, cot-caught-merger, dialectal) of Canada
/ˈɒblɒŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Meanings
(transitive) To extend so as to form an oblong shape.
That the Gilbert tract, according to his opinion and the law, ought to have been oblonged up the creek. That by oblonging it across the creek, it afforded Elijah Robertson, who superintended the surveying, an opportunity of laying a warrant not located there, for himself, and thereby takes 5,000 acres. 1818, John Haywood, “Childress versus Holland. Whyte, Judge, delivered the opinion of himself and Judge Roane.”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of Tennessee, from the Year 1816 to 1817, volume III, Knoxville, Tenn.: […] Heiskell & Brown, page 276:
[…]; 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[…] 1670, John Bull, signed sealed and delivered in the psents of Antony Waters [/] Rachell (X) Waters; republished as “Town Minutes”, in Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688 (Transcriptions of Early Town Records of New York; […]), volume 1, New York, N.Y.: The Historical Records Survey, June 1940, pages 181–182:
(transitive) 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 . 1928, New York Supreme Court, page 2149:
His silhouette: broad shoulders, big legs, a square face oblonged by a crest of thick hair and almost lantern jaw. 2006, Nancy Zafris, Lucky Strike, page 165:
[…] the venue (a private country club nestled in the woods outside Cincinnati, with a dance hall whose ceilings went straight to the moon), to the ice cubes (truly cubed, not oblonged or crushed, and king-sized cubes for the bourbon rocks), 2020, Elizabeth Ames, The Other's Gold:
And there were suddenly berries where there had been none before, bright red and bright blue, all with a careless water drop oblonging their form. 2008, Gary D. Schmidt, Trouble, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, →ISBN, page 287: