oval

«oval» in Mova's school dictionary: Shaped like an egg or a stretched circle — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (oval); noun (an oval, ovals)

meaning for a pupil

1) Shaped like an egg or a stretched circle. tree →

2) (noun) An oval shape. tree →

3) (Australia) A sports field, often oval-shaped, for cricket or football. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths shape lessons: an oval is a curved 2D shape with no corners, like a squashed circle; it is not a circle. In Australia, kids play sport on the school oval. Phrases: oval shape, the Oval (cricket ground in London), the Oval Office (US president's office).

examples

• An egg is oval. tree →
• Draw an oval for the face. tree →
• A rugby ball looks oval from the side. tree →
• We played cricket on the school oval (Australia). tree →
• The mirror is oval, not round. tree →
• An oval has no straight sides and no corners. tree →
• It was built in a perfect oval, and lighted from a crystal dome above. tree →

note

Countable as a noun ("an oval" — note "an"). An oval has 0 corners (vertices) and 0 straight sides, and 1 curved edge. In maths, the exact oval with two lines of symmetry is called an ellipse.

In the corpora

• Round follicles grow straight hair and flat or oval follicles grow curly hair, and hair shape is inherited from your family.
• Four bat-and-ball and oval-ball games, four scoring systems.
• Galaxies come in main shapes: spirals like ours, round or oval ellipticals, and shapeless irregulars.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «oval» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.