ellipse
Imagine you're drawing an oval with your hip movements.
The clouds are painted as white ovals with blue centres.
Each child helped stretch the pizza dough into ovals ready for topping.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geometrical shapes
-cornered
circularly
congruently
conic
cuboid
cylindrically
lozenge
orbicular
ovally
ovoid
parallelogram
pentagon
polytope
prism
quadrilateral
rectangle
rectangular
rhombus
three-dimensional
tubular

ovalnoun[C] (SPORT)

an oval-shaped sports track or playing area, or the building in which it is contained:
The teacher ran around the oval with us.
The skaters executed a graceful turn at the far end of the oval.
Although no drivers have been seriously injured at the racetrack, officials are trying to make the oval a safer place to race.
The organization would assume control of the oval after the Olympics.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Surfaces on which sports take place
18-yard box
astroturf
backstretch
bound
canvas
court
goal line
gridiron
ground staff
hard court
midfield
MUGA
near post
off his/her lineidiom
out of boundsidiom
ring
rink
sideline
skatepark
surface

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Sports venues

oval | American Dictionary

oval
adjective
us/ˈoʊ·vəl/
shaped like a circle that is flattened with two long, straight sides and round ends, or shaped like an egg:
an oval table

oval

noun[ C ]us/ˈoʊ·vəl/
The sculptor created patterns of cylinders, cones, and ovals.

Examples of oval

oval
Around the circle are half ovals set like the petals of a daisy.
The black ovals represent schematically the blind spot locations.
The presence of such functions in the relative cohomology decompositions is a reflection of the specific geometry of the ovals from the corresponding period annulus.
Regions within which samples are homogeneous (see text) are shown using ovals.
Participants watch a computer screen while either ovals depicting the superior view of heads or plain ovals appear every few seconds.
Likewise, variation in the placement of the ovals in the interactive steps would lead to local irregular variability in the final leveled image.
They are principally cylinders, cones and ovals or parts of the same.
Following the initial outlines, the sculptor would have created the more involved pattern of cylinders, cones and ovals we see on the other figures.
The ovals show the result of rules applied at a particular active center.
The ovals and circles are nodes, which may be nested, and each node has ports, which may be linked.
Latent variables are depicted in ovals and observed variables in rectangles.
Four chromosomal regions, represented by vertical lines, were detected using three groups of traits distinguished by the ovals, rectangles and shaded rectangle.
They predominantly used lines, ovals and blobs, rectangles, and hatching.
The four latent variables, shown in ovals, describe the trajectories of the two types of behavior problems.
Detailed anatomical examination of the oval fossa and its environs relative to placement of the device is obviously of great practical importance.
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