English words for 'rounded like an egg'
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adj
- rounded like an egg
- (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
- characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse.
- (botany, of leaves) Oval, with a short or no point.
- (linguistics) Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted; elliptical.
- (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
- (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.
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adj
noun
adj
noun
- An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
- a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
- (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
- (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
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- The egg of a louse.
- A young louse.
- (UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
- A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
- Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
- A candela per square metre.
- A nitpicker.
- (UK, Ireland, loosely) A head louse regardless of its age.
- (poker) A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
- egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
- a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
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noun
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- (countable) A surface or insert that has regularly spaced holes or indentations.
- (countable, uncountable) A foam pad with multiple indentations giving it a texture similar to that of an egg carton.
- (countable) An egg carton; A specialized container for eggs which has multiple indentations for holding individual eggs.
- (countable, lighting) A device for restricting the spread of light that fits into the softbox of a diffuser panel.
- A grid-like support structure or scaffolding.
- (countable) A style of open roof that consists of horizontal supports in a grid pattern.
- (countable, education) A self-contained class that has no collaboration or interaction with any other class, and which is the sole responsibility of a single teacher.
- (countable) A crate used for transporting eggs.
noun
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
verb
- To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
- To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
- To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.
- To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
- (lighting) To equip with an egg crate.
- To put into egg crates.
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adj
noun
- the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen
- nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)
- The grease in a sheep's fleece; lanolin.
- The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
verb
noun
- a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter
- an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
- A chocolate confection in the shape of an egg, sometimes with chocolates or sweets inside.
- A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.
- (computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
- (by extension) Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.
noun
noun
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
- a flat circular plate
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
- A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.
- Alternative form of disk
- (disc sports) Ellipsis of flying disc; synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee.
- Something resembling a disc.
- (botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
verb
noun
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
- a flat circular plate
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
- (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
- (computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.
- (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
- (computer hardware, nonstandard) Ellipsis of optical disk.
- (agriculture) A type of harrow.
- (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
verb
noun
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- a disk used in throwing competitions
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table
- An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
- A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
- A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
- A circular sled without runners.
- A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- The egg of a louse.
- A young louse.
- (UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
- A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
- Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
- A candela per square metre.
- A nitpicker.
- (UK, Ireland, loosely) A head louse regardless of its age.
- (poker) A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
- egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
- a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
verb
adj
noun
- An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
- a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
- (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
- (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
noun
noun
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
noun
- the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen
- nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg)
- The grease in a sheep's fleece; lanolin.
- The yellow, spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the white albumen, and serves as nutriment for the growing young.
verb
noun
- a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter
- an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
- A chocolate confection in the shape of an egg, sometimes with chocolates or sweets inside.
- A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.
- (computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
- (by extension) Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.
noun
noun
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
- a flat circular plate
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc.
- A vinyl phonograph or gramophone record.
- Alternative form of disk
- (disc sports) Ellipsis of flying disc; synonym of frisbee; generic name for the trademark Frisbee.
- Something resembling a disc.
- (botany) The flat surface of an organ, as a leaf, any flat, round growth.
verb
noun
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
- a flat circular plate
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
- (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
- (geometry) A two-dimensional geometric region, the set of points bounded by a circle.
- (computer hardware) Ellipsis of hard disk.
- (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk.
- (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
- (computer hardware, nonstandard) Ellipsis of optical disk.
- (agriculture) A type of harrow.
- (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
verb
noun
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- a disk used in throwing competitions
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table
- An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
- A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
- A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
- A circular sled without runners.
- A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
verb
verb
noun
- (countable) A surface or insert that has regularly spaced holes or indentations.
- (countable, uncountable) A foam pad with multiple indentations giving it a texture similar to that of an egg carton.
- (countable) An egg carton; A specialized container for eggs which has multiple indentations for holding individual eggs.
- (countable, lighting) A device for restricting the spread of light that fits into the softbox of a diffuser panel.
- A grid-like support structure or scaffolding.
- (countable) A style of open roof that consists of horizontal supports in a grid pattern.
- (countable, education) A self-contained class that has no collaboration or interaction with any other class, and which is the sole responsibility of a single teacher.
- (countable) A crate used for transporting eggs.
verb
- To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
- To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
- To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.
- To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
- (lighting) To equip with an egg crate.
- To put into egg crates.
noun
adj
- rounded like an egg
- (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
- characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse.
- (botany, of leaves) Oval, with a short or no point.
- (linguistics) Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted; elliptical.
- (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
- (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
- a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
- (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
- (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.