Spherical - English meaning

idiom

If something that you say or show to people goes down like a lead balloon, they do not like it at all

Usage examples:

My joke about the alcoholic went down like a lead balloon.

adjective

Fat, round, or bulging.

Usage examples:

A bulbous nose

adjective

Having an outline or surface curved like the exterior of a circle or sphere.

Usage examples:

A convex lens

adjective

Having the form of a curve; bent.

Usage examples:

Birds with long curved bills

verb

Form or cause to form a curve.

Usage examples:

Her mouth curved in a smile

adjective

Having a rounded or smoothly bending shape

Usage examples:

A curved surface, the knife has a short, curved blade.

adjective

Contained by or consisting of a curved line or lines.

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These designs employ flowing, curvilinear forms

adjective

Containing or consisting of curved lines

adjective

Shaped like a disc.

Usage examples:

Heads on discoid plants have an extra whorl of disc florets instead of ray florets.

noun

A thing that is shaped like a disc, particularly a type of ancient stone tool.

Usage examples:

Eighty-nine were flaked-stone tools; the ninetieth was a carefully shaped discoid, perhaps a mano o…

noun

The smallest basic unit of a plant ...

adjective

Globe-shaped; spherical.

Usage examples:

Plants with distinctive globular blooms

noun

Short for globular cluster.

adjective

Shaped like a ball

adjective

(of a person) large and plump.

Usage examples:

Her brother was slim where she was rotund

adjective

Rounded or fat

Usage examples:

A rotund piglet/man

adjective

Shaped like a circle or cylinder.

Usage examples:

She was seated at a small, round table

noun

A circular piece of something.

Usage examples:

Cut the pastry into rounds

adverb

So as to rotate or cause rotation; with circular motion.

Usage examples:

A plane circled round overhead

adjective

Having a smooth, curved surface.

Usage examples:

Rounded grey hills

verb

Pass and go round (something) so as to move on in a changed direction.

Usage examples:

The ship rounded the cape and sailed north

adjective

Curved

Usage examples:

Rounded pebbles

adjective

Spherical.

Usage examples:

Two years later, j. j. thomson modified kelvin's model, having the electrons move in concentric cir…

noun

A sphere-like but not perfectly spherical body.

Usage examples:

A remarkable feature of oligoamine-condensed dna is the ability to assume condition-defined morphol…