Eligible vs Elliptical - What's the difference?
eligible | elliptical |
Suitable; meeting the conditions; worthy of being chosen; allowed to do something.
One who is eligible.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 3, author=Diane Ravitch, title=Get Congress Out of the Classroom, work=New York Times
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In a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.
* 1876 , Edward Roth (translator), ,
Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
(of speech) Concise, condensed.
* 1903 , ,
* early XX c. , , by O. Henry
(mathematics, rare)
Being flat and in the shape of a twice-symmetrical ellipse; oval.
As adjectives the difference between eligible and elliptical
is that eligible is eligible while elliptical is in a shape reminding of an ellipse; oval.As a noun elliptical is
(astronomy) an elliptical galaxy.eligible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
Used in the phrase (eligible bachelor) to mean “desirable male”, the corresponding term for a woman is nubile.Synonyms
* qualifiedAntonyms
* ineligible * unqualifiedNoun
(en noun)citation
elliptical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical ; science proves that it must be so.
- If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us. --
- Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.
- He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.