ball

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
2. (countable, uncountable) A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
3. (countable, uncountable) Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
4. (countable, uncountable) Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
5. (countable, uncountable) Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
6. (countable, uncountable) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
7. (obsolete, uncountable) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
8. (countable, uncountable) A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
9. (countable, uncountable) A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
10. (countable, uncountable) The globe; the earthly sphere.
11. (countable) 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
12. (uncountable) 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
13. (countable) 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
14. (countable) 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
15. (countable) 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
16. (countable) 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
17. (countable) 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
18. (countable, metonymically, uncountable) 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
19. (countable, in-plural, mildly, plural-normally, slang, uncountable, vulgar) A testicle.
20. (countable, in-plural, mildly, plural-normally, slang, uncountable, vulgar) A testicle.
21. (countable, historical, uncountable) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
22. (countable, historical, uncountable) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
23. (countable, singular, singular-only, slang, uncountable) One thousand US dollars.

Verb

1. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
2. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
3. (US, intransitive, transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
4. (ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
5. (participle, present, regional, slang) To be hip or cool.
6. To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
7. (slang) To play basketball.
8. To spend money extravagantly.
9. (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
10. (transitive) Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
11. (intransitive) 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).

Intj

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.

Conceptes

pilota

bola

terròs

pilotes

ou

🥚

pera de goma

tros

testicle

bocí

baló

esfera

gònada

cabdellar

bala de mosquet

dídim

turma

bala

cabdell

ball

💃

colló

metatars

Sinònims

sphere

globe

dance

💃

testicle

lump

bullet

bollock

nut

testis

ballock

egg

🥚

orb

orchis

circle

⭕

clod

bowl

shot

clump

earth

dancing party

chunk

football

🏈

ball-bearing

pellet

mass

bundle

spherical object

promenade

formal

ball game

glob

spherical

baseball

⚾

slug

round

roll

skein

round mass

party

🥳

marble

cannonball

lumpy

pill

💊

cutty

globule

bloom

gun

🔫

hemisphere

knob

prom

Traduccions

boule

Ball

palla

Kugel

balle

ballon

bal

pelota

bola

bola

bal

esfera

μπάλα

sphère

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɔːl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: bal

Heretat de anglès antic: *beall

Cognat amb Old Saxon: ball

Cognat amb neerlandès: bal

Cognat amb alt alemany antic: bal

Cognat amb alemany: Ball

In summary

From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from an unattested Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse bǫllr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“ball, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”).
Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.

Frases

Tully took a corner for Celtic and swung the ball directly into the net .