football-shaped
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- adjective
- /ˈfʊtbɔl-ʃeɪpt/
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en forma de balón de fútbol
- The headphones come with a football-shaped case.
Examples
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Alcubierre's design called for an American football-shaped spacecraft with a flat ring attached to the ship.
Blog text (4) -
Since I thought a football-shaped cookie would be a bit too difficult to manage on such short notice, I decided on a rich white cookie with a red center.
Fiction book (1993) -
When the two combine, they will form an "elliptical galaxy," or what van der Marel described as a football-shaped galaxy.
Blog text (13) -
But the species is easy to identify from its big false "eyes"—twin white football-shaped markings behind the head.
Academic text (1995) -
As the designer, Hannah had access to the factory and the production machinery, so after the roughhousing incident, he created a football-shaped mold and cranked out a soft polyurethane foam football.
Blog text (24) -
The balloon was designed to look like a football-shaped object, making it popular for sports-themed parties.
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We noticed a football-shaped cloud that resembled a giant football drifting across the sky.
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The classroom had a football-shaped table that allowed all the students to see each other during discussions.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having a rounded shape that is slightly longer than a circle, like an egg
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A shape that is long and round like an egg
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Having a curved shape with rounded ends like a bean
A shape like an egg or an oval
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Etymology
Football-shaped is simply football + -shaped; picture an American football — long and rounded at both ends — so it means 'in the shape of a football', that is, 'oval' or 'oblong'.