elliptical
ਅੰਡਾਕਾਰ
definition
adjective
an elliptical lyrical style
(of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand.
example
Watching it now it seems even stranger that its oblique characters and 'elliptical' , alien scenes of remote mountain-town malaise managed to hypnotise so many people for two series.
The writing may be a bit 'elliptical' , but it's fun, which most food columns tend not to be.
Its 'elliptical' paraboloid shape was selected because it could be easily described mathematically, simplifying both design and construction.
When little observations popped out, they had 'elliptical' power.
He guessed that the original cutting stylus was defective and so he tried a custom-made reproducing stylus, instead of the usual conical or 'elliptical' styli.
Bush was as 'elliptical' in his victory speech about what lies ahead in Iraq as about the domestic issues he touched on, which included the economy, taxes, Social Security and education.
That is a phrase which, in our respectful submission, is also apt to mislead, it being an 'elliptical' noun phrase.
I know about than the preposition vs. than the introducer of 'elliptical' clauses, but this example took me (intuitively, not analytically) aback.
Glossy deep green oval or 'elliptical' leaves grow up to 18 inches long and 5 inches wide.
In each case, 'elliptical' writing conveys too little.
He appears to be shuffling the decks in an 'elliptical' power move.
The elephant's road to freedom links up with a city dweller making a hard choice in a treacherous world, and in Sommers's hands, it all makes 'elliptical' sense.
These are spiral, 'elliptical' , barred spiral and irregular.
Visitors will be able to walk beneath the concave underside of the 'elliptical' bean-shaped form.
Cocteau, he added, protected his speech with short, tense and 'elliptical' lines which formed a barrier between himself and the reader.
It consists of four parts, the 'elliptical' garden incorporating an oval pool, the Yew garden, the upper terrace and a lower terrace and pergola, all four linked by a terrace which once fronted the original house.
Clutch size is two and eggs are white, non-glossy and an 'elliptical' oval shape.
The 'elliptical' questions should be generally acceptable, since they don't have soon (with its usual component of afterness) in combination with before.
It never strives to say anything in particular, and the backroom drama-what there is of it anyway-is so brief, oblique and 'elliptical' that it merely provides an air of impromptu, on-the-fly context for the dance numbers.
Cells are oval or 'elliptical' in shape, with the maximum width of the cell at about the midpoint of its length.
To come to understand the grounds for this last rather 'elliptical' claim, we must consider the logical status of ‘God is good.’
Small ovoid and 'elliptical' silver baskets were made in the neoclassical style to hold sugar as part of the tea service.
The Earth's orbit changes from being almost a perfect circle to its 'elliptical' form and then back again.
The construction ‘the shiraz impresses’ seems to be 'elliptical' , with an implied object complement that is not expressed, rather than being a genuinely intransitive verb.
Frost's text at times verges on the obtuse - her language and often convoluted and 'elliptical' form of writing may well daunt the less academic reader.
For two bodies, the solution is easy: the two bodies move around each other in 'elliptical' orbits - or follow parabolic or hyperbolic paths in some special cases.
But his account is delivered in the same 'elliptical' , insiders' fashion as the speeches that follow, and so requires as much exegesis and commentary as anything else in the book.
This is not an easy task because of Knight's 'elliptical' writing style.
They are often 'elliptical' in shape, but sometimes possess hexagonal outlines.
No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's 'elliptical' logic and weird similes.
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