ball

Meaning

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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɔːl/

Etymology

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.