ELONGATE and SILHOUETTE:

FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:

 

ELONGATE and SILHOUETTE:

  

ELONGATE: (both Transitive and Intransitive Verb, and also adjective)

Pronunciation:

Elongate (or) Ilongate – எலாங்கேட் (OR) இலாங்கேட்

 

Meaning:

 

Extend - lengthen - to become longer by being extended - pull/stretch far off - to move to or place at a distance (from someone/something) - get/make longer - draw too far so as to make it slender - expand - enlarge - to draw out to greater length - to increase the length - long and thin

 

(Although ‘ELONGATE’ is a simple word (not a jargon), still we don’t use it much, as traditional and conventional words carrying the same meaning like – extend, expand, lengthen, enlarge, etc. – usually come in handy for use. However, it is necessary to get oneself keep abreast of how the word can be used).

 

Example sentences:

 

 The cells ELONGATE as they take in water.

 

When you lengthen or extend something, you ELONGATE.

 

A Yoga teacher might encourage you to reach up as high as you can, so that you ELONGATE your spine.

 

The flower has a short column foot and an ELONGATE stripe.

 

These stretching exercises can help ELONGATE your leg muscles.

 

Basmati rice being a slender food grain, they ELONGATE when cooked.

  

With the ELONGATED voting period, long queues are absent at the poling booths.

 

She has sharpened and ELONGATED canine (dog-like) teeth with hollows inside them.

 

New medical procedures have ELONGATED the careers of many athletes.

 

In the photo, her face was slightly ELONGATED.

 

In an attempt to ELONGATE her body, the dancer stood on her tiptoes and stretched her arms to the sky.

 

The extra length will help ELONGATE a full face, making it appear more oval.

 

Studies have shown that taking antibiotics for the common cold can actually ELONGATE your illness instead of reducing or curing it.

 

  

SILHOUETTE: (noun)

   

Pronunciation:

Silu-wet – ஸிலுவெட்

 

Meaning:

 

A SILHOUETTE is the dark shape that you see when someone or something has a bright light or pale background behind them.

 

A SILHOUETTE is the image of a person, animal, object, or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject. The interior of a SILHOUETTE is featureless, and the SILHOUETTE is usually presented on a light background, say white, or none at all. The SILHOUETTE differs from an outline, which depicts the edge of an object in a linear form, while a SILHOUETTE appears as a solid shape. SILHOUETTE images may be created in any visual artistic media, but were first used to describe pieces of cut paper, which were then stuck to a backing in a contrasting colour, and often framed.  

 

A black outline of the shape of a person or thing - a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly coloured in - an outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass - the SILHOUETTE of a bird - to represent by a SILHOUETTE - to project on a background like a SILHOUETTE

 

நிழலுருவம் – நிழல் படம்

    

Example sentences:

 

Yesternight, I could see a SILHOUETTE of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn’t tell if it was a man or a woman

 

That boy traced a SILHOUETTE of his father on white paper and filled in the sketch with a black marker.

 

Using his telescope, the man could see the woman’s SILHOUETTE through the curtain.

 

From the building’s dark SILHOUETTE in the painting, I can recognize it as the tallest structure I the world.

 

The dark SILHOUETTE of the castle ruins stood out boldly against the fading light.

 

The SILHOUETTE was that of her sister.

 

The dress fits her so well to give her a flattering SILHOUETTE.

 

The SILHOUETTE of the bare tree on the hill was very clear against the inter sky.

 

He beautifully drew the city in SILHOUETTE.

 

The painter lined the SILHOUETTE of the girl which was really awesome.

 

Proverbs:

 

நாய் வாலைக் குணக்கு எடுக்கலாமா?

Can you change the shape of a dog's tail?

நாய் வேஷம் போட்டால் குலைக்கவேண்டும்.

If you assume the guise of a dog, you must bark.

சுவரை வைத்துக்கொண்டு அல்லவோ சித்திரம் எழுத வேண்டும் ?

You must first build the wall, must you not, and then adorn it with figures ?

(R.SAMPATH)

25/2/2022