| 单词 | prolate |
| 释义 | prolate (once / 214897 pages) adj WORD FAMILY prolate USAGE EXAMPLESThe only thing more unpredictable is fans of the prolate spheroid. Washington Times(Dec 02, 2015) A lemon is a prolate spheroid, a grape is a prolate spheroid, and so is a watermelon. Time(Jan 29, 2015) Zipping a prolate spheroid into the hands of a leaping man 20 yards downfield, at the split-second he’s open: That’s hard. Time(Oct 10, 2013) 1adj having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter a prolate spheroid is generated by revolving an ellipse about its major axis Syn|Ant watermelon-shaped rounded curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged cucumber-shapedshaped like a cucumber oblate, pumpkin-shaped having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles roundedcurving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged 2adj rounded like an egg Syn egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid rounded curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged |
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