Crossword-Solution: ELLIPSES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ellipses | pl. | of Ellipsis |
We have 18 clues for the answer “ELLIPSES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Some quotation marks | 1 answer |
| Quote shorteners | 1 answer |
| Orbital paths | 1 answer |
| Omissions of words or phrases. | 1 answer |
| Omission marks | 1 answer |
| Dot dot dots | 1 answer |
| Dot-dot-dot marks | 1 answer |
| In printing, marks ( . . . or * * * ) indicating omissions. | 1 answer |
| Off-kilter circles. | 1 answer |
| Omission indications | 1 answer |
| Squashed circles | 2 answers |
| Ovals. | 3 answers |
| Omissions | 4 answers |
| Geometric shapes | 6 answers |
| AN UNEXPECTED OMISSION | 10 answers |
| A DELIBERATE ACT OF OMISSION | 10 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY EXTREME ECONOMY OF EXPRESSION OR OMISSION OF SUPERFLUOUS ELEMENTS | 10 answers |
| Geometric figures | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ELLIPSES (5)
The particular year they sang of was to be a particularly fine year, as who should say a fine child and forward, with congruous syntax at two years old, and ellipses, figures, and tropes.
Its figures of speech, pleonasms, ellipses, anacolutha, pros to semainomenon, and the like have no reality; they do not either make conscious expressions more intelligible or show the way in which they have arisen; they are chiefly designed to bring an earlier use of language into conformity with the later.
That the planetary orbits are not circular, but elliptical, the sun occupying one focus of the ellipses.
For the lines of beauty there are no abscissae and ordinates; circles and ellipses are not described by means of their algebraical formulae.
They wheeled--the gentle, graceful, sly, tantalizing things--in circles and ellipses, now skimming along the surface of the water, now swooping away in great smooth curves, then darting off in headlong flight and pursuit.
Quotes with ELLIPSES (3)
I'm sorry," Billy says, "but I felt it was too organized. I like ellipses and teeny jottings and spontaneous poems and particularly all those devices like long lists of melancholy things.
Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her brother's death to keep conversations comfortable. At some point the subconscious logic of this had spread to the rest of her life so that she rarely talked about things she had been deeply affected by. It wasn't hard to do.
Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).