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ball

UK /bɔːl/US /bɒl/

noun30

  1. An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
  2. An apparatus.
  3. a round object or mass, which may be solid or empty inside
  4. A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
  5. A food preparation formed into a spherical shape.
  6. The globe; the earthly sphere.
  7. A formal dance.
  8. (informal) A very enjoyable time.
  9. [usually plural] (slang, vulgar) A testicle.
  10. [in the plural, usually plural] (slang, vulgar) Courage.
  11. Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
  12. An apparatus program with a ball.
  13. [in the plural, usually plural] (slang, vulgar) Nonsense.
  14. A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
  15. A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
  16. The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
  17. A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
  18. a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
  19. A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
  20. A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
  21. Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
  22. In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
  23. The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
  24. The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
  25. A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
  26. An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
  27. (slang) One thousand US dollars.
  28. (historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
  29. (historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
  30. (no longer used) Such bullets collectively.

verb12

  1. To form or wind into a ball.
  2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
  3. To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
  4. (slang) To play basketball.
  5. (US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
  6. To spend money extravagantly.
  7. (Internet) (slang) Used to indicate general perseverance.
  8. (slang) To be hip or cool.
  9. To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).
  10. To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
  11. Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
  12. To punish by affixing a ball and chain.

exclamation2

  1. An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
  2. An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
forms

balled · balling · balls

Phrases with ball

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