Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a right angle or right angles; right-angled.
- In heraldry, forming a right angle, or broken twice, forming two right angles: said of a heraldic line and also of a division of the field so bounded by it: as, a chief rectangled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Rectangular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
rectangular
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Examples
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I was checking in at the Hyatt, a building from the outside that's all rectangled mirrors, a bastion of privilege into which pedestrians and schmoes driving by in their Hondas and Chevys are forbidden to see.
I'm Not Emilio Estevez Christian Bell 2011
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How is that Jesus's tomb has a perfectly round "door" covering a perfectly rectangled opening?
BSNYC Frigedæg Blētsung Cunnian! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Lying in a midnight bed the two blocks of curtain glimmer on the left hand, on the right a living Rothko, cyan-black rectangled and haze-edged against the black-black, that painter of tombstones of the opacity of doorways the particoloured cataract, the page, the two blocks of grey shredded edges, merging white smaller rectangle in larger, the page.
Rothko poem Adam Roberts Project 2007
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Lying in a midnight bed the two blocks of curtain glimmer on the left hand, on the right a living Rothko, cyan-black rectangled and haze-edged against the black-black, that painter of tombstones of the opacity of doorways the particoloured cataract, the page, the two blocks of grey shredded edges, merging white smaller rectangle in larger, the page.
Archive 2007-10-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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By our acquaintance with the perfect, we discover the imperfect; by a comparison with the geometrically true rectangled triangle, or circle, we estimate the error of these forms when they have become distorted; and in the same way, by a knowledge of what is the healthy normal standard of human form, we diagnose correctly its slightest degree of deformity, produced by any cause whatever, whether by sudden accident, or slowly-approaching disease.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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Thompson rectangled swoops from the right block up off a down screen.
SI.com 2010
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Thompson rectangled swoops from the right block up off a down screen.
SI.com 2010
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Thompson rectangled swoops from the right block up off a down screen.
CNN.com 2010
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So I inserted the xref, rectangled the subject area and trimmed.
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So I inserted the xref, rectangled the subject area and trimmed.
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