Oblong
adjective
Something that has a shape that is longer than it is wide, like a rectangle.
She placed the oblong table in the center of the room.
Often appears as...
- oblong shape
- oblong table
noun
A shape or object which is longer than it is wide.
The room was an oblong, with a window at one end.
Often appears as...
- an oblong
- oblong shape
adjective
Something that has a shape that is longer than it is wide, like a rectangle.
She placed the oblong table in the center of the room.
Often appears as...
- oblong shape
- oblong table
noun
A shape or object which is longer than it is wide.
The room was an oblong, with a window at one end.
Often appears as...
- an oblong
- oblong shape
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Pro Tip 1/3Visualize the Shape
Picture an oblong as a stretched circle or a squished rectangle for better understanding.
The track field was oblong, making it look like a stretched-out circle.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Perfectly Rectangular
Remember, oblongs resemble rectangles but often have rounded corners or unequal sides.
Her face had an oblong contour, more rounded than a true rectangle.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Objects Example
Identify common items like certain phones or tablets that are oblong to visualize the word.
His new smartphone was oblong, very sleek and easy to hold.
Pro Tip 1/3Visualize the Shape
Picture an oblong as a stretched circle or a squished rectangle for better understanding.
The track field was oblong, making it look like a stretched-out circle.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Perfectly Rectangular
Remember, oblongs resemble rectangles but often have rounded corners or unequal sides.
Her face had an oblong contour, more rounded than a true rectangle.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Objects Example
Identify common items like certain phones or tablets that are oblong to visualize the word.
His new smartphone was oblong, very sleek and easy to hold.
Pro Tip 1/3Visualize the Shape
Picture an oblong as a stretched circle or a squished rectangle for better understanding.
The track field was oblong, making it look like a stretched-out circle.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Perfectly Rectangular
Remember, oblongs resemble rectangles but often have rounded corners or unequal sides.
Her face had an oblong contour, more rounded than a true rectangle.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Objects Example
Identify common items like certain phones or tablets that are oblong to visualize the word.
His new smartphone was oblong, very sleek and easy to hold.
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Video examples
The story of 'Oumuamua,...
Now here we see 'Oumuamua racing between the stars. It's centered in the middle. The stars are trailed out because the telescope is following its motion. It started faint and then it got brighter, fainter, brighter, and fainter again, as sunlight is reflected off of four sides of an oblong object.
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The journey across the...
are those beautiful oblong objects but quite difficult to make they have to be precisely lathe Oh when I was buying the clubs somehow the young juggler was hiding from the others but I didn't think much of it at the time anyway here
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Magic Without Lies PIPE...
Poor teacher. Nobody listens to mathematicians. Every creature on flatworld sees its Fellows as merely short lines, which are the nearest sides of their oblong bodies.
Video examples
The story of 'Oumuamua,...
Now here we see 'Oumuamua racing between the stars. It's centered in the middle. The stars are trailed out because the telescope is following its motion. It started faint and then it got brighter, fainter, brighter, and fainter again, as sunlight is reflected off of four sides of an oblong object.
Video examples
The journey across the...
are those beautiful oblong objects but quite difficult to make they have to be precisely lathe Oh when I was buying the clubs somehow the young juggler was hiding from the others but I didn't think much of it at the time anyway here
Video examples
Magic Without Lies PIPE...
Poor teacher. Nobody listens to mathematicians. Every creature on flatworld sees its Fellows as merely short lines, which are the nearest sides of their oblong bodies.
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Quote examples
Bayard Taylor
American Journalist
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
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Claude Monet
French Artist
Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
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Pete Holmes
American Comedian
I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit of an outsider, and then learned the healing qualities of comedy.
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Abraham Cahan
Lithuanian Author
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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Stephen Leacock
Canadian Economist
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
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Tom Douglas
American Chef
Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.
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T. J. Miller
American Actor
My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
Quote examples
Bayard Taylor
American Journalist
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
Quote examples
Claude Monet
French Artist
Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.
Quote examples
Pete Holmes
American Comedian
I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit of an outsider, and then learned the healing qualities of comedy.
Quote examples
Abraham Cahan
Lithuanian Author
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Quote examples
Stephen Leacock
Canadian Economist
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
Quote examples
Tom Douglas
American Chef
Razor clams are large, oblong clams, although not as big as geoducks.
Quote examples
T. J. Miller
American Actor
My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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