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How to use oblate in a sentence
The characteristic form is round-oblate, regular; Size medium.
AMERICAN POMOLOGYJ. A. WARDEROblate, or flattened, when the axial diameter is decidedly the shorter; fig. 35.
AMERICAN POMOLOGYJ. A. WARDERHis hands went up to his eyes and he stared for a few moments at the pale yellow oblate shape of the sun.
A HONEYMOON IN SPACEGEORGE GRIFFITHOblate, is the reverse of oblong, and means shorter in one direction, than in another.
CONVERSATIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, IN WHICH THE ELEMENTS OF THAT SCIENCE ARE FAMILIARLY EXPLAINEDJANE HALDIMAND MARCET AND THOMAS P. JONES(He disengages himself) Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this oblate orange?
ULYSSESJAMES JOYCEThe figure of the Earth is that of an oblate spheroid; it is slightly flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator.
THE ASTRONOMY OF MILTON'S 'PARADISE LOST'THOMAS ORCHARDDurtal rejoined M. Bruno in the court; they shook hands, and the oblate announced the presence of a new guest.
EN ROUTEJ.-K. (JORIS-KARL) HUYSMANSThese articles were evidently the property of the oblate, for they were nothing like the furniture of La Trappe.
EN ROUTEJ.-K. (JORIS-KARL) HUYSMANSHe did not even hear the conversation which was going on beside him between the curate and the oblate.
EN ROUTEJ.-K. (JORIS-KARL) HUYSMANSThe oblate opened a small door, and the lay brother, all bent, lifted his head with difficulty.
EN ROUTEJ.-K. (JORIS-KARL) HUYSMANSWORDS RELATED TO OBLATE
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