Crossword clues for oblong
oblong
- Stretched square
- Like a stretched circle
- Like a rugby ball
- Shaped like a mozzarella stick
- Rectangular or elliptical in shape
- Rectangular but not square
- Four-sided shape
- Stretched-out figure
- Squashed, like a square or circle
- Shaped like gelcaps
- Shaped like a rectangle or ellipse
- Rectangular two-dimensional figure
- Rectangle with adjacent sides unequal
- Like many watermelons
- Like many mail slots
- Like a pool table
- Like a plum tomato
- Like a mango
- Form of a rectangle
- Football field shape
- Billiard table shape
- Rectangular shape
- Geometric figure
- Stretched figure
- Slightly squashed?
- Lozenge-shaped
- Shaped like a fish stick
- Shaped like a plum tomato
- Like papaw leaves
- A plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation
- Type of rectangle
- Elliptical, say
- One revisiting school, perhaps, getting ache in quad?
- Old internet piece encapsulating Northern figure
- Something with an elongated rectangular shape
- Shape of coffin trimmed around with pine
- Alumnus, boring perhaps, certainly not square
- Figure of old boy standing by pine?
- Figure obese blokes primarily yearn for?
- Plane figure elongated in one direction
- Like a circle stretched in one direction
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oblong \Ob"long\, a. [L. oblongus; ob (see Ob-) + longus long: cf. F. oblong.] Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.
Oblong \Ob"long\, n. A rectangular figure longer than it is broad; hence, any figure longer than it is broad.
The best figure of a garden I esteem an oblong upon a
descent.
--Sir W.
Temple.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 longer than wide. 2 Roughly rectangular or ellipsoidal. n. 1 Something with an oblong shape. 2 A rectangle having length greater than width.
WordNet
adj. of a leaf shape; having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides
deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
n. a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 761
Land area (2000): 0.950204 sq. miles (2.461016 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008707 sq. miles (0.022551 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.958911 sq. miles (2.483567 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55106
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.001274 N, 87.908470 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62449
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Oblong
Wikipedia
Oblong may refer to:
- Oblong, a rectangle with length greater than its width (i.e. not a square)
- Oblong, Illinois, a village in the United States
- Oblong Industries, a spin-off of the MIT Media Lab
- A leaf shape
- The Oblong, a historic tract of land in the state of New York along the Connecticut border, adjacent to the Connecticut panhandle, in the United States
Usage examples of "oblong".
Lorn and the half score of lancers with him ride toward the compound, an oblong of light compared to the towering darkness of the Accursed Forest just to the south.
As soon as the beans had protruded radicles, some to a length of less than a tenth of an inch, and others to a length of several tenths, little squares or oblongs of card were affixed to the short sloping sides of their conical tips.
The white walls were bloomed with shadows and reflections, and the curtains of gold and orange Florentine brocade were only partly drawn, so that at each window there showed between them an oblong of that mysterious blue which the night assumes to those who look on it from lit rooms.
Any one of those, possibly a mixture of all, the color I can see beyond the clouded glass, carefully, geometrically divided into nine oblongs by those rigid black muntins, while I lie here on my bed, staring out at that one small piece of sky visible to me.
Built of the timber of breadfruit and toa, and thatched beautifully with the russet-coloured leaves of the pandanus palm, oblong in shape, they bore an almost exact resemblance, inside and out, to the dwellings in Tahiti and Tubuai.
A stone bowl or basin made from an oblong, somewhat oval-shaped quartzite slab, and used for pounding and grinding mesquite beans.
He simply led the way through the brush and up the ridge until all could scooch and peer, much as Anse had said he had peered, into the shallow, oblong bowl of a valley beyond.
The utricles of the oblong glands had shrunk very little, but their contents were somewhat aggregated.
Many of the oblong glands were brown, and these, as well as others which still remained colourless, had their utricles more or less shrunk, some of them including small aggregated masses of matter.
These tiles are small and oblong, of every color under the sun, and possess an unapproached luster of glaze.
CHAPTER XII THE SECOND OBLONG BOX When Cleggett returned to the ship he found Captain Abernethy in conversation with a young man of deprecating manner whom the Captain introduced as the Rev.
And Captain Abernethy and George the Greek bore into the cabin a third oblong box, exactly similar in appearance to the box of Reginald Maltravers and the box which contained the evidence against Logan Black, and set it on the floor.
It was set at the foot of a long, wide, ordered slope of green, but different shades of green, planted in squares and oblongs, divided by roads and breaks, climbing to a crest maybe as much as two miles above us.
The bees were still an oblong column, two miles wide and a half-mile long.
Like a lot of Detroiters I almost never visit that oblong oasis on the watery border between the United States and the Dominion of Canada.