elliptically
椭圆地,椭圆形地,椭圆形,椭圆形的
Definitions
- 1
- : in the form of an ellipse.
- : in an elliptical manner; by an ellipse.
- : with great economy of words or expression; concisely: to speak elliptically.
- : without sufficient transition or a logical connection between thoughts, ideas, or expressions; ambiguously or cryptically: to jump elliptically from generalities to specifics.
Examples
Washington didn’t tend to speak so elliptically, or condescendingly.
On television, stories may be told elliptically, but sitcoms still have their A and B plots.
President Obama has elliptically promised that a U.S.-led coalition will prevent Iran from obtaining the bomb.
That flits upon an orbit elliptically or parabolically or hyperbolically curved, keeping no man knows what trysts with Time.
Then, looking almost challengingly at one another, we began to speak rather quickly, and a little elliptically.
Aristotle used Enthymeme in the wider sense of an elliptically expressed argument.
Over the north side of the knees was an elliptically-shaped piece of cedar burned on the upper side.
"It's the back-block bend," he remarked elliptically, in the boat.