ball

(Anglais)

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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/bɔːl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: bal

Hérité de ancien anglais: *beall

Appartenant à Old Saxon: ball

Appartenant à néerlandais: bal

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: bal

Appartenant à allemand: 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.

Concepts

boule

balle

ballon

bal

sphère

globe

testicule

couille

bille

boulette

pelote

terre

banco

gosse

🧒

motte

hémisphère

dans la main

boulet

sphérique

ballon de football

couilles

coulé

croquette

Terre

testicules

bille de retenue du percuteur

Testicule

baballe

gosse

🧒

ballot

bêtise

bloc

bol

conneries

enrouler

fou

goutte

💧

grain

joyau

œuf

🥚

orbe

peloton

plante

poire

🍐

rouler

sottise

Synonymes

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

Traductions

Ball

palla

Kugel

bal

pelota

bola

bola

esfera

kula

μπάλα

sfera

ballo

💃

pilota

piłka

top

Phrases

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