Shapes
Synonyms for ellipse
The synonym for ellipse recorded in this bank is oval, in the sense "a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for ellipse
- ovalnoun, in the sense "a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for ellipse.
a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
The planet traces a slow ellipse around its star.
The true synonym
oval
Same sentence, swapped: The planet traces a slow oval around its star.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- parabola
- caustic
- sinus
Where ellipse turns up in the game
ellipse is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because shapes is the company ellipse keeps.
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