ball

Senso (English)

Noun

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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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

Verb

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

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.

Synonyms

sphere

globe

dance

💃

testicle

lump

bullet

testis

bollock

nut

egg

🥚

ballock

orb

circle

⭕

orchis

clod

earth

bowl

dancing party

shot

chunk

clump

football

🏈

mass

promenade

spherical object

ball-bearing

glob

ball game

formal

pellet

bundle

something round

skein

slug

spherical

knob

lumpy

marble

baseball

⚾

round mass

round object

party

🥳

fruit

cutty

pill

💊

musket ball

prom

cannonball

globule

gun

🔫

roll

bloom

round

hemisphere

projectile

pummel

ravings

realm

reception

roll up

scrotum

seed

serve

service

social

softball

🥎

spring

tablet

tangle

tassel

thenar

thicket

tuft

wind

wisp

zero

ball of yarn

ballroom dancing

clod of dirt

cotton ball

soccer ball

dancing

small lump

0

blobe

grand ball

retaining ball

9

dancingparty

small spherical object

sphare

glomus

bell screw

bell socket

bell tap

die nipple

green pellet

soccerball

longshore bar

globus

grinding pebble

assist

grinding ball

bale

ballpoint

bead

bean

bobbin

bollocks

bomb

💣

boule

bullshit

bump

cannon

cannon ball

carnival

celebration

cheek

circumference

clew

clot

collection

confusion

conglobation

conglomeration

curl up

delivery

disorder

drop

entertainment

fair

fandango

festival

fete

gala

globular

grain

handball

hardball

hogwash

hump

involvement

jack

leap

mess

mortgage

musket

nad

orbicular

ovum

pearl

pistol

pitch

play

pommel

pompom

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/bɔːl/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: bal

Inherited from inglese antico: *beall

Cognate with Old Saxon: ball

Cognate with olandese: bal

Cognate with tedesco antico alto: bal

Cognate with tedesco: 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.