Available Definitions:
1) a. - To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.
2) a. - To remove further off.
3) v. i. - To depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.
4) a. - Drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.