What does rectangular mean?
Word: Rectangular
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Rectangular means having the shape of a rectangle: four straight sides, with opposite sides equal.
How do you spell rectangular?
Syllables: rec - tan - gu - lar
Tricky part: The ending is ular, not uler or lar: rectanguler and rectanglar are the usual slips.
Watch out for: rectanguler, rectanglar
Memory tip: Rectangle drops its le and takes ular, just as triangle gives triangular: rectangle, rectangular.
Rectangular in a sentence
Example 1: Ravi cut the cake into neat rectangular pieces.
Example 2: India's national flag is rectangular, with a width to length ratio of 2 to 3.
Example 3: We built a rectangular vegetable bed in the school garden.
Fun Fact
An A4 sheet is rectangular with its sides in the ratio 1 to the square root of 2, so folding it in half gives a smaller sheet of exactly the same shape.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
r_ct_ngular
a) a, a
b) e, a
c) i, a
d) e, e
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b) e, a. The first two vowels are both short: an e, then an a.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
recttangular
a) c
b) t
c) r
d) n
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b) t. Just one t follows the c, as in the word direct.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word rectangular as used in the sentence:
The hall has a long, rectangular table that seats twenty people.
a) circular
b) oblong
c) oval
d) curved
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b) oblong. An oblong is a shape longer than it is wide with four straight sides and square corners, which is what rectangular describes.
Mingle-Mangle
Choose the word that the jumbled letters in the sentence make:
Our classroom has a unrtcaagrel window that looks out on the playground.
a) rectangular
b) regular
c) triangular
d) spectacular
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a) rectangular. Triangular needs an i, regular is too short, and spectacular needs an s and a p.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A rectangular field is 50 m long and 20 m wide. Its perimeter is ____.
a) 100 m
b) 70 m
c) 140 m
d) 1,000 m
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c) 140 m
2. Every rectangular shape has ____.
a) four right angles
b) no corners
c) three sides
d) curved edges
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a) four right angles
