Crossword-Solution: SPHEROID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spheroid | n. | A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “SPHEROID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Anything shaped like Earth | 1 answer |
| Earth is an oblate one | 1 answer |
| Egg yolk, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Egg, for instance | 1 answer |
| Squashed ball | 1 answer |
| The earth is one. | 1 answer |
| Thing shaped like Earth | 1 answer |
| a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes | 1 answer |
| solid figure that is almost but not exactly a sphere | 1 answer |
| Earth, for one | 3 answers |
| Round object | 5 answers |
| like an apple | 5 answers |
| Earth, e.g. | 5 answers |
| GEOMETRIC solid | 9 answers |
| Globe | 16 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPHEROID (5)
The region chiefly affected in this poisoning is the jaw-bone, but the inflammation may spread to the adjoining bones and involve the vomer, the zygoma, the body of the spheroid bone, and the basilar process of the occipital bone.
Morton mentions a patient of forty-seven, who was injured in a railroad accident near Phoenixville, Pa.; there was a compound comminuted fracture of the skull involving the left temporal, spheroid, and superior maxillary bones.
The object proved to be a black, wrinkled spheroid, baked hard as iron in the sunshine of Estrella's toys, a potato squeezed to dryness by the constricting power of the rawhide.
From his point of perspective he saw himself an outcast from society, forever to be a shady skulker along the ragged edge of respectability; a denizen _des trois-quarts de monde_, that pathetic spheroid lying between the _haut_ and the _demi_, whose inhabitants envy each of their neighbours, and are scorned by both.
These masses would take a spheroid form with a rotatory movement in the direction of the revolution, because their inner molecules had less velocity than the outer.
Quotes with SPHEROID (3)
The world is a spheroid, designed to never end. We can explore it without limits, and we will have not end.
The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It is perpetually said that because there are a hundred religions claiming to be true, it is therefore impossible that one of them should really be true. The argument would appear on the face of it to be illogical, if anyone nowadays troubled about logic. It would be as reasonable to say that because some people thought the earth was flat, and…
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1958–2017).