Tom Wolfe

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

American Journalist

Aaron Neville

When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.

American Musician

Felipe Massa

For sure people around me, they always say don't do ovals, we are not happy to see you doing that. I'm not saying I'm scared, I'm not scared to do ovals. But I never thought about it. I was not really planning to go to do Formula Indy.

Brazilian Driver

Charlie Kimball

I have a routine for a day I'm in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I'm in the gym once or in the gym twice. Then I've got a road course routine and an oval routine because they're different physically.

English Driver

Brittany Bowe

I'll get to the oval three hours beforehand and warm up for about 45 minutes off the ice. Then I'll stretch and get on the ice for 20 minutes. I'll cool down, then relax, close my eyes and think about what I need to do.

American Athlete

Danica Patrick

I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.

American Driver

Ann Coulter

Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was.

Marcus Ericsson

The ovals have been the big learning curve. You have to build up to it in a different way.

Swedish Driver

Kyle Busch

I hear a lot of people who say they enjoy watching the road course races over the ovals.

Mario Andretti

The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.

Used to describe a face that is wider at the cheeks and gently narrows at the chin.

Facial Shape

'Oval' indicates a shape that is not a perfect circle but stretched along one axis.

Not Perfectly Round

An oval has no sharp edges; the curves are smooth and continuous.

Smooth Curves

'Oval' is often used in geometry to refer to a rounded, elongated circle shape.

Geometric Term

Tracks for sports like athletics, horse racing, or cricket are often oval-shaped.

Sporting Tracks

Ovals are a popular shape in art and design for their aesthetic appeal.

Art and Design

 It will be tilted at an angle depending on your latitude or inverted if you're in the southern hemisphere. And if you're on another planet, you might find something completely different. Depending on that planet's orbital eccentricity and axial tilt, the analemma might appear as a tear drop, oval, or even a straight line.

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 Now the problems with closed photobioreactors They are quite expensive, they are automated, and it's very difficult to get them in large scale. So on large scale what do they use? We use open pond systems. Now, around the world they are growing algae, with this racetrack design that you see here. Looks like an oval with

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 tasks to carry out depending on who's in the minority and who's in the majority of any given population and so then again we turn to chemistry and we figured out what this generic molecule is so that was the pink ovals on my last slide this is it it's a very small five carbon molecule and what the important

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 perhaps, not surprisingly cities can be seen as more important in many ways than countries. So, what is on this map is every human being in the world. You have the entire world's population here and you have the population density as well. And you have these ovals showing you the kind of outlines

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 but occasionally, the pressures of modern life forces us to clench and hold it in. How bad is this habit, and how long can our bodies withstand it? The answers lie in the workings of the bladder, an oval pouch that sits inside the pelvis. Surrounding this structure are several other organs

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 And this next map shows that troop position information; it's crucial for understanding what Lee could and what he couldn't see. Now, if you look closely at this map, you might be able to see kind of the middle is a black oval around an area that's relatively clear.

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 it before and i thought you know i'm not sure what exactly this is but this is maybe something important and it looks as if all these bones were found you know together in pictures it looks like a leaf or a pointy oval it's about the length of a human pinky

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 of any given population. Then, again, we turned to chemistry, and we figured out what this generic molecule is -- that was the pink ovals on my last slide, this is it. It's a very small, five-carbon molecule. And what the important thing is that we learned

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 all the continents of the world even Antarctica, we don't have that. These circles here, these ovals are centers of civilization, centers of dense archaeological finds. As you can see, you know we're looking at

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 of the world so I'd be more than happy if you could tell me whether the cooker has a similar in size and color alright Kingfisher's time let's go to working fishes with Steve oval

Oval

In the shape of an egg.

A shape that resembles an egg.

Facial Shape

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Smooth Curves

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