What's the difference between oval and ovate?

Oval


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
  • (a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical.
  • (a.) Broadly elliptical.
  • (n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It happens to anyone and everyone and this has been an 11-year battle.” Emergency services were called to the oval about 6.30pm to treat Luke for head injuries, but were unable to revive him.
  • (2) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ronald Reagan meeting with Rupert Murdoch in the Oval Office on 18 January 1983.
  • (4) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
  • (5) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
  • (6) The nuclei in these typical onocytes appeared oval or spheroid.
  • (7) Afghanistan will be the main item on the agenda at a meeting on Wednesdaybetween Cameron and Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the main day of the visit.
  • (8) They are rounded or oval bodies visible to the naked eye, and situated ventrolaterally in the posterior mesonephros.
  • (9) Small oval cysts (less than or equal to 1 cm) with strong echo were all diagnosed colloid goiter.
  • (10) This model opened possibilities to study the filamentous form of P. ovale in vitro.
  • (11) Electron microscopically, the tumor cell nuclei were oval or polygonal and sometimes slightly invaginated, with a few prominent nucleoli.
  • (12) The proliferation zone is only a few cell rows thick and contains single cells with an oval shape and longitudinal fibrocyte-like nucleus.
  • (13) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
  • (14) The septum primum, as the valve of the foramen ovale, has been previously described as a mobile, echogenic line or dot in the left atrium.
  • (15) The authors described a fluoroscopic method of guiding percutaneous needle penetration of the foramen ovale.
  • (16) "I'm led to believe that Notts County used to play their home games at Trent Bridge, The Oval hosted an FA Cup final and Bramall Lane used to be a cricket ground, but are there any other cricket grounds that have hosted either league or international football matches?"
  • (17) The earliest perfect ring-shaped formation of the foramen ovale is observed in the 7th fetal month and the latest in 3 years after birth.
  • (18) Magnetic resonance revealed oval corresponding hypointense foci both on T1-and T2-weighted images.
  • (19) Arterial oxygen tension was lower in patients with a patent foramen ovale (mean 55 [SD 14] vs 62 [16] mm Hg, p = 0.038).
  • (20) Peripheral blood specimen showed abnormal lymphoid cells with an oval to cleaved nucleus, rather condensed chromatin, occasional prominent nucleolus, and basophilic cytoplasms with vacuoles which seems to be a T-cell counterpart of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia with mixed cell types.

Ovate


Definition:

  • (a.) Shaped like an egg, with the lower extremity broadest.
  • (a.) Having the shape of an egg, or of the longitudinal sectior of an egg, with the broader end basal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was given a standing ovation as he arrived on stage for the launch event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, San Francisco.
  • (2) The duo were given a standing ovation as they took to the stage helped by Evans and guest presenter Robbie Savage.
  • (3) The audience, energised by an early heckler who was swiftly ejected from the hall at Jerusalem's International Convention Centre, received Obama's message with cheers, applause, whistles and several standing ovations.
  • (4) But Forster spares them that need by charging off hie line to claim it himself, bringing an ovation from the relieved crowd!
  • (5) After a standing ovation from the 1,000 strong audience, Christie responded: "I hear exactly what you are saying and I feel the passion with which you say it.... And so my answer to you is just this: I thank you for what you're saying, and I take it in and I'm listening to every word of it and feeling it too."
  • (6) He may have received a standing ovation at Monday’s Hollywood premiere, but his genius contribution was to have no input.
  • (7) It was very dramatic, and the audience all rose to their feet, so there was a standing ovation right at the beginning.
  • (8) Atlético’s supporters had broken into spontaneous applause for their team as soon as Bale put Carlo Ancelotti’s side ahead, and the ovation did not stop even when the game ran away from them and the score started to feel like a deception.
  • (9) Bachmann was there to kick off Tea Party's Annual Blogger Awards: After being introduced as a “true Tea Partier to the core” and “one of the number one targets” of the liberal news media, Rep. Michele Bachmann has arrived at the conference to a packed room and a standing ovation to introduce the Tea Party’s annual blogger awards.
  • (10) His seventh goal in his last seven games for Wales, after a calamitous mistake from Radja Nainggolan, was the difference on a evening that ended with the Real Madrid forward leaving the field to a standing ovation two minutes from time.
  • (11) Today, tonight, I’m going to announce my retirement from professional soccer.” For a moment the crowd protested, a collective “Nooooo!” interspersed with sporadic shouts of “one more year!” But quickly they pulled together to give their outgoing captain the ovation that he deserved.
  • (12) It seemed nearly impossible for Texas senator Ted Cruz to speak at the event without being interrupted by a standing ovation.
  • (13) Gerrard had had a hand in all four goals – it was his pass that picked out Henderson for the third – and unsurprisingly received an ovation when he made way for Joe Allen.
  • (14) The German finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, won a standing ovation at the Christian Democrat's party conference in Leipzig with calls to block all moves by the European Central Bank to buy more than token numbers of Italian bonds.
  • (15) When Mourinho withdrew Drogba in injury- time, allowing him to enjoy a personal ovation from all corners of the ground, the cautionary finger raised to the manager's lips as he greeted his player seemed to suggest that Drogba had done his talking where it counted.
  • (16) Today, these dancers generate standing ovations and five-star reviews.
  • (17) The outgoing deputy prime minister, who was given a standing ovation as he entered the room, said: “I always expected this election to be exceptionally difficult for the Liberal Democrats, given the heavy responsibilities we’ve had to bear in government in the most challenging of circumstances.
  • (18) Guests are always shown deference – Dingell was, for example, given a standing ovation before he had even spoken, and another once he had finished.
  • (19) Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt were always on the technocratic wing of New Labour, politicians who never roused a conference audience to its feet in spontaneous ovation.
  • (20) But on Saturday, Corbyn and Diane Abbott , the shadow home secretary, appeared on stage to cheers and a standing ovation from some 1,600 attendees at the Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) rally at Friends Meeting House in central London.