Antonyms for ellipses
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ih-lips |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlɪps |
Definition of ellipses
Origin :- 1753, from French ellipse (17c.), from Latin ellipsis "ellipse," also, "a falling short, deficit," from Greek elleipsis (see ellipsis). So called because the conic section of the cutting plane makes a smaller angle with the base than does the side of the cone, hence, a "falling short." First applied by Apollonius of Perga (3c. B.C.E.).
- As in orbit : noun circuit, revolution
- As in curve : noun arched, rounded line or object
- As in figure of speech : noun turn of expression
- Hence the probability that all the orbits are ellipses is overwhelming.
- Extract from : « Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I » by Herbert Spencer
- By supplying the ellipses we can often discover the errors in a sentence, if there are any.
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- Man forms the idea of an ellipse, and ascertains the laws of ellipses.
- Extract from : « Christianity As A Mystical Fact » by Rudolf Steiner
- They are ovals, or, to speak in technical language, "ellipses."
- Extract from : « Astronomy of To-day » by Cecil G. Dolmage
- The book uses em-dashes as ellipses at the ends of sentences.
- Extract from : « The Making of a Prig » by Evelyn Sharp
- The ellipses of the planets have been and always will be nearly circular.
- Extract from : « Letters on Astronomy » by Denison Olmsted
- This point indicates the center of all ellipses to be drawn.
- Extract from : « The Boy Mechanic, Book 2 » by Various
- Their ellipses elongate and flatten again to the semblance of circles.
- Extract from : « First and Last » by H. Belloc
- The orbits of comets are ellipses that are greatly elongated or parabolas.
- Extract from : « Astronomy for Young Folks » by Isabel Martin Lewis
- There are many kinds of Ellipses in Homer; the effect of the figure is quickness.
- Extract from : « Essays and Miscellanies » by Plutarch
Synonyms for ellipses
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- ambit
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- apogee
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- arc
- arch
- asyndeton
- bathos
- bend
- bight
- bow
- camber
- catenary
- chord
- circle
- circuit
- circumference
- circumgyration
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- compass
- concavity
- conceit
- contour
- course
- crook
- curlicue
- curvation
- curvature
- curve
- cycle
- device
- echoism
- ellipse
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- festoon
- flexure
- flourish
- flower
- hairpin
- half-moon
- helix
- horseshoe
- hyperbola
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- incurvation
- incurvature
- irony
- lap
- litotes
- locus
- loop
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- meniscus
- metaphor
- metonymy
- ogee
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- parabola
- paradox
- parallel
- path
- pattern
- perigee
- personification
- proteron
- quirk
- rhetoric
- rondure
- rotation
- round
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- sinuosity
- sweep
- swerve
- synecdoche
- track
- trajectory
- trope
- tropology
- turn
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- vault
- way of speaking
- whorl
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