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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#m1)

2) (noun) An oval shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#m2)

3) (Australia) A sports field, often oval-shaped, for cricket or football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#x1)
- Draw an oval for the face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#x2)
- A rugby ball looks oval from the side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#x3)
- We played cricket on the school oval (Australia). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#x4)
- The mirror is oval, not round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#x5)
- An oval has no straight sides and no corners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#x6)
- It was built in a perfect oval, and lighted from a crystal dome above. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/8/)
- [Four bat-and-ball and oval-ball games, four scoring systems.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/45-cricket-and-rugby-baseball-and-american-football/0/)
- [Galaxies come in main shapes: spirals like ours, round or oval ellipticals, and shapeless irregulars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/24-galaxies-and-the-big-bang/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «oval» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/oval/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.