All 3 Uses
oblong
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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- The cabin was mostly white, oblong, and about the size of a smallish restaurant.†
Chpt 11 *
- In fact it wasn't perfectly oblong: the two long walls were raked round in a slight parallel curve, and all the angles and corners of the cabin were contoured in excitingly chunky shapes.†
Chpt 11
- The truth of the matter is that it would have been a great deal simpler and more practical to build the cabin as an ordinary three-dimensional oblong room, but then the designers would have got miserable.†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(oblong) an elongated shape (having more length than width) -- typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)