1. Swinging the blowpipe elongates the glass; rapid spinning flattens it out.

2. Antonyms for Abbreviates include lengthens, elongates, expands, extends, prolongs, protracts, amplifies, increases, enlarges and strengthens

3. The soft feel and natural shape of the nipple gently flexes and elongates like mom's breast.

4. In steel rolling, the metal elongates as it passes through pairs of rollers, which must run at successively faster speeds.

5. The Chiton embryo hatches as a trochophore, a globular cell mass with an apical tuft and central band of cilia, and subsequently elongates and differentiates into a small Chiton

6. The Coleoptile is a rigid piece of plant tissue that encloses the first few leaves (or plumule) of the corn seedling as the mesocotyl elongates and "pushes" the Coleoptile to the soil surface during the emergence process. Click on image to open a larger version.

7. The Blastopore can be a discrete "hole" in the embryo that elongates (called an archenteron) as in the case of sea urchins (Figure 7), or it can be a broad lip of cells that narrows as epibolizing cells expand as in frogs and snails (Figures 5 and 8).