Oval
['əʊv(ə)l] or ['ovl]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
(a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
(a.) Broadly elliptical.
(n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.
Checker: Lorenzo
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Elliptical.
Typist: Rowland
Definition
adj. having the shape of an egg.—n. anything oval a plot of ground &c.: an ellipse.—adv. O′vally.
Edited by Andrea
Examples
- Three were the oval Mill bomb type, serrated, heavy iron with a spring level held down in position by a cotter pin with pulling rig attached. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- On their backs were oval shields, in their noses huge rings, while from the kinky wool of their heads protruded tufts of gay feathers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The medium of exchange upon Mars is not dissimilar from our own except that the coins are oval. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- To judge by its European vestiges it was a rather small human type, generally with an oval face and a long head. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The form of the tubes is an oval, 17 feet in its longest diameter, and 12 feet in its shortest. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand close to his sleek ebony body. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The tree is distinguished by the great thickness and sponginess of its bark, and by the leaves being evergreen, oblong, somewhat oval, downy underneath, and waved. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We both see the long hair, the lifted and foam-white arm, the oval mirror brilliant as a star. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Like a shimmering waterfall turned to burnished metal by a dying sun it fell about her oval face; in waving lines, below her waist it tumbled. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The bowl was perfectly oval in shape, while the end of the handle was notched or trifid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A flame darted from the logs and she bent over the fire, stretching her thin hands so close to it that a faint halo shone about the oval nails. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Its shape is oval. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For a moment, in the billowy darkness inside the big landau, he caught the dim oval of a face, eyes shining steadily--and she was gone. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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