ball | (noun) a pitch that is not in the strike zone | - |
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(noun) a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs | Synonyms: baseball, baseball game |
(noun) round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games | - |
(noun) a spherical object used as a plaything | - |
(noun) a solid projectile that is shot by a musket | Synonyms: musket ball |
(noun) a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass | - |
(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
(noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: formal |
(noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump |
(noun) an object with a spherical shape | Synonyms: globe, orb |
(verb) form into a ball by winding or rolling | - |
(verb) to live very well | - |
ballad | (noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: lay |
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(noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: lay |
ballade | (noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | - |
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balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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ballast | (noun) any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship | - |
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(noun) an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps | Synonyms: light ballast |
(noun) a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) | Synonyms: ballast resistor, barretter |
(noun) an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings | - |
(noun) coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads | - |
(verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
ballcock | (noun) floating ball that controls level in a water tank | Synonyms: ball cock |
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balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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ballerina | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: danseuse |
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ballet | (noun) a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers | Synonyms: concert dance |
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(noun) music written for a ballet | - |
balletic | (adjective) characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet | - |
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balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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ballgame | (noun) a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) | Synonyms: ball game |
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(noun) a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation | Synonyms: new ballgame |
ballista | (noun) ancient missile weapon that throws bolts or stones | Synonyms: bolt thrower |
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ballistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | - |
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ballistics | (noun) the science of flight dynamics | - |
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(noun) the trajectory of an object in free flight | Synonyms: ballistic trajectory |
ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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ballock | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
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balloon | (noun) large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air | - |
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(noun) small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck | - |
(verb) become inflated | Synonyms: billow, inflate |
(verb) ride in a hot-air balloon | - |
balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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ballot | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: balloting, vote, voting |
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(noun) a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting | - |
(verb) vote by ballot | - |
balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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ballottement | (noun) a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus) | - |
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ballpark | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: park |
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(noun) near to the scope or range of something | Synonyms: approximate range |
ballpen | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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ballplayer | (noun) an athlete who plays baseball | Synonyms: baseball player |
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ballpoint | (noun) a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper | Synonyms: ballpen, ballpoint pen, Biro |
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ballroom | (noun) large room used mainly for dancing | Synonyms: dance hall, dance palace |
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ballup | (noun) something badly botched or muddled | Synonyms: balls-up, cockup, mess-up |
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bally | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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ballyhoo | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: hoopla, hype, plug |
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(verb) advertize noisily or blatantly | - |
ballyrag | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around, strong-arm |
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baseball | (noun) a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs | Synonyms: ball, baseball game |
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(noun) a ball used in playing baseball | - |
basketball | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball game, hoops |
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(noun) an inflated ball used in playing basketball | - |
beachball | (noun) large and light ball; for play at the seaside | Synonyms: beach ball |
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beanball | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beaner |
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blackball | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: barring |
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(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
(verb) vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent | Synonyms: negative, veto |
blowball | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls | Synonyms: dandelion |
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brandyball | (noun) a British candy flavored with brandy | - |
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buckyball | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckminsterfullerene |
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butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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(noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
cannonball | (noun) a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon | Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot |
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earthball | (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: false truffle, hard-skinned puffball, puffball |
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eyeball | (noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | Synonyms: orb |
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(verb) look at | Synonyms: eye |
fastball | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, heater, hummer, smoke |
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fireball | (noun) the luminous center of a nuclear explosion | - |
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(noun) a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) | - |
(noun) a highly energetic and indefatigable person | Synonyms: ball of fire, human dynamo, powerhouse |
(noun) an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) | Synonyms: bolide |
football | (noun) any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | Synonyms: football game |
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(noun) the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football | - |
footballer | (noun) an athlete who plays American football | Synonyms: football player |
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globally | (adverb) worldwide | Synonyms: internationally |
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(adverb) with respect to the whole earth | - |
goofball | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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(noun) a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior | Synonyms: buffoon, clown, goof, merry andrew |
greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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groundball | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, grounder, hopper |
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hairball | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, trichobezoar |
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handball | (noun) a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands | - |
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(noun) a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball | - |
hardball | (noun) baseball as distinguished from softball | - |
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(noun) a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics | - |
highball | (noun) a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass | - |
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knuckleball | (noun) a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin | Synonyms: knuckler |
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lowball | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: underestimate |
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meatball | (noun) ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth | - |
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mothball | (noun) a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing | Synonyms: camphor ball |
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(verb) put into long-term storage | - |
netball | (noun) a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post | - |
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nonverbally | (adverb) without words | Synonyms: non-verbally |
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oddball | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, geek |
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paintball | (noun) a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them | - |
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(noun) a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball | - |
pinball | (noun) a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets | Synonyms: pinball game |
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puffball | (noun) any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature | Synonyms: true puffball |
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(noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball |
punchball | (noun) an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing | Synonyms: punch bag, punching bag, punching ball |
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pushball | (noun) a game using a leather ball six feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal | - |
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racquetball | (noun) a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets | - |
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(noun) the ball used in playing the game of racquetball | - |
screwball | (adjective) foolish; totally unsound | Synonyms: crazy, half-baked, softheaded |
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(noun) a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown | - |
(noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut, nut case |
screwballer | (noun) (baseball) a pitcher who throws screwballs | - |
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snowball | (noun) snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully) | - |
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(noun) ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup | - |
(noun) ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce | - |
(noun) plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions | Synonyms: Abronia elliptica, sweet sand verbena |
(verb) increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate | - |
(verb) throw snowballs at | - |
softball | (noun) a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger | Synonyms: softball game |
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(noun) ball used in playing softball | - |
sourball | (noun) round piece of tart hard candy | - |
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spitball | (noun) an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it | Synonyms: spitter |
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(noun) a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere | - |
sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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stickball | (noun) a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle | Synonyms: stickball game |
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tetherball | (noun) a game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole | - |
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trackball | (noun) an electronic device consisting of a rotatable ball in a housing; used to position the cursor and move images on a computer screen | - |
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verbally | (adverb) as a verb | - |
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(adverb) by means of language | - |
volleyball | (noun) a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands | Synonyms: volley ball, volleyball game |
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(noun) an inflated ball used in playing volleyball | Synonyms: volley ball |