cigar-shaped

Examples

• All

• The gas formed a cigar-shaped cloud around a symmetry axis.

  Academic text (2005)

• Phobos 2 did make it to Mars and started to send back photographs taken by two cameras; however, alarmingly, they included a picture of the shadow of a cigar-shaped object flying in the planet's skies between the Soviet craft and the surface of Mars.

  Blog text (5)

• "I thought you said it was cigar-shaped, Mrs. Hull?"

  Fiction book (1999)

• Orange, cigar-shaped, like they had in Boston when I was a kid.

  Fiction book (1997)

• And these pictures were large cigar shaped craft in outer space, like high resolution pictures of these things.

• The body is streamlined, cigar-shaped, maybe eight feet in diameter at its thickest.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "And over here," the general moved his finger across the Persian Gulf to a spot just off the Iranian coast that was marked by a blue cigar-shaped object, "we have the USS Honolulu."

  Fiction book (2000)

• Ever since I was a little kid, I had loved the cars, the old square orange ones, the new cigar-shaped model, liked seeing them lined up in the yards, loved the trolley sparks on wires in the dark, the rattle of the change box, the sway of the ride, the clatter of the wheels.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Depending on the magnetic trap, the shape of the condensate is approximately round with a diameter of 10 to 50 µm, or cigar-shaped with a diameter of about 15 µm and a length of 300 µm.

  Academic text (1999)

• We spotted a cigar-shaped cloud drifting lazily across the clear blue sky.

Synonyms

F

fusiform

vscigar-shaped

• Specialized

1 9.9

Shaped like a long egg, wide in the middle and narrow at both ends

is less focused on having a central bulge

S

spindle-shaped

vscigar-shaped

6.3

Narrow at both ends and wider in the middle, like a long thin oval

is less focused on having a wider middle

How Elongated

needle-shaped

4.6

cigar-shaped

1 4.4

oval

38 1.0

round

273 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology