boule vs oval

boule

noun
  • A round piece of dough. 

  • A single-crystal ingot produced by synthetic means. 

  • A round loaf of bread. 

  • A through-sawn log with the slices restacked in the order and orientation they originally had in the log, usually with waney edges. 

  • A council of citizens in Ancient Greece 

  • One of the bowls used in the French game of boules. 

verb
  • To shape (a piece of dough) into a ball. 

oval

noun
  • An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse. 

  • A thing having such a shape, such as an arena. 

  • In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point. 

  • A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape. 

adj
  • Of or pertaining to an ovum. 

  • Having the shape of an oval. 

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