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Oval vs Ellipsis - What's the difference?

oval | ellipsis |

As nouns the difference between oval and ellipsis

is that oval is a shape rather like an egg or an ellipse while ellipsis is He is faster than she. (Here, a trailing “is fast” is omitted, grammatically required, and implied..

As an adjective oval

is having the shape of an oval.

As a proper noun Oval

is a cricket ground in South London.

oval

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shape rather like an egg or an ellipse.
  • A sporting arena etc. of this shape.

    • Usage notes

    * Note: an ellipse is a precise mathematical shape, but an oval is not.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the shape of an oval.
  • Of or pertaining to an ovum.
    • oval conceptions

    Derived terms

    * ovaline * ovalish * ovally

    Usage notes

    The adjectives oval, ovate, and ovoid all come from roots meaning "egg-shaped". They are usually denotatively synonymous. A connotation of one end being bigger than the other (which is often true of eggs) may or may not be implied. Of the three, oval is the one mostly likely to connote a symmetrical ellipse.

    ellipsis

    English

    (wikipedia ellipsis)

    Noun

    (ellipses) {{examples-right, sense=grammar, examples= * He is faster than she. (Here, a trailing “is fast” is omitted, grammatically required, and implied.) * She went home, so I did, too.'' (''Did stands for “went home”.) }}
  • (typography) A mark consisting of three periods, historically with spaces in between, before, and after them “ . . . ”, nowadays a single character “” Ellipses are used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible.
  • * 2006 , Danielle Corsetto, '' Girls with Slingshots: 114
    • CARD: Hey Baby. Thanks for the … last night. Love you!
    HAZEL: Wow. I’ve never despised an ellipsis so much in my life.
  • (grammar, rhetoric) The omission of a grammatically required word or phrase that can be inferred.
  • (film) The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
  • * 2002 , David Blanke, '' The 1910s: 219
    • It was now possible for writers and directors to cut scenes that did not further the plot; called "ellipses " by filmmakers.

    Synonyms

    * (typography indicating omission) dot dot dot

    See also

    (punctuation) English nouns with irregular plurals ----