Definition of prolong

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Prolong (a.) To put off to a distant time; to postpone.

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Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street..
Prolongation :: Prolongation (n.) The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.
Production :: Production (n.) The act of lengthening out or prolonging.
Siphon :: Siphon (n.) A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.
Howl :: Howl (n.) A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
Roaring :: Roaring (n.) A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation..
Rostrifera :: Rostrifera (n. pl.) A division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, having the head prolonged into a snout which is not retractile..
Intonation :: Intonation (n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t..
Siphon :: Siphon (n.) The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.
Hum :: Hum (v. i.) To make a nasal sound, like that of the letter m prolonged, without opening the mouth, or articulating; to mumble in monotonous undertone; to drone..
Swallow-tailed :: Swallowtail (n.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe..
Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds..
Sigh :: Sigh (v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing..
Siphonobranchiata :: Siphonobranchiata (n. pl.) A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group..
Fistularia :: Fistularia (n.) A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity..
Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.
Prolongate :: Prolongate (v. t.) To prolong; to extend in space or in time.
Rumor :: Rumor (n.) A prolonged, indistinct noise..
Prolonging :: Prolonging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prolon.
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