Look up: Ball

1. Ball
   Bullet. (The actual projectile.)
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2. Ball
   Ball is a township in Sangamon County Illinois, USA. Ball is a town in Rapides County Louisiana, USA.
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3. Ball
   Meaning as a surname: Nickname for a bald man.
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4. ball
   See WARP BALL.
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5. ball
   [n] - an object with a spherical shape 2. [n] - the people assembled at a lavish formal dance 3. [n] - a compact mass 4. [n] - a lavish formal dance 5. [n] - a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass 6. [n] - a spherical object used as a plaything 7. [n] - round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games 8. [n] - a pitch that is not in the strike zone 9. [v] - form into a ball by winding, rolling, etc.
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6. Ball
   White and made of plastic or wood. It weighs four and a half ounces and is three and a half inches in diameter.
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7. ball
   a spherical object used to pump down the drill string or tubing to trip, release, or otherwise operate certain hydraulic-type tools.
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8. Ball
   A sphere together with its interior. See also: Sphere.
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9. ball
   D.an ornament of rounded form, common as the termination of a cupola or lantern...That of S. Paul`s Cathedral is six feet in diameter. Category: Building industry • the -- shall be spherical, made of a leather case with a bladder made of rubber...Circumference: 26 to 26 3/4 in. Category: Sports, entertainments and leisure
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10. Ball
    Definition (keystage 2) Another word for a sphere; sometimes used more loosely to mean any fairly round solid shape.
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11. Ball
    Definition (undergraduate level) A subset of a normed vector space V of the form <br /> B R ( z ) = { ζ ∣ | z - ζ | < R } <br /> or <br /> B R ˜ ( z ) = { ζ ∣ | z - ζ | ≤ R } . <br /> where R ∈ R and z ∈ V . These are ref …
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12. Ball
    Ball (bal) noun [ Middle English bal , balle ; akin to Old High German balla , palla , German ball , Icelandic böllr , ball; confer French balle . Confer 1st Bale , noun , Pallmall .] 1. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. 2. …
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13. Ball
    Ball intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Balled (bald); present participle & verbal noun Balling .] To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls ; the snow balls .
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14. Ball
    Ball transitive verb 1. (Metal.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. 2. To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
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15. Ball
    Ball noun [ French bal , from Old French baler to dance, from Late Latin ballare . Of uncertain origin; confer Greek ba`llein to toss or throw, or pa`llein , pa`llesqai , to leap, bound, balli`zein to dance, jump about; or confer 1st Ball , noun ] A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
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16. Ball
    Ball noun (Baseball) A pitched ball, not struck at by the batsman, which fails to pass over the home base at a height not greater than the batsman's shoulder nor less than his knee.
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17. ball
    1. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. ... 2. A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. ... 3. A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. ... 4. Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or …
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18. ball
    noun the people assembled at a lavish formal dance; `the ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded`
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19. ball
    noun a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass; `the ball at the base of the thumb`; `he stood on the balls of his feet`
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20. ball
    formal noun a lavish dance requiring formal attire
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21. ball
    noun a pitch that is not in the strike zone; `he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him`
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22. Ball
    Lucille Ball noun United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)
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23. ball
    globe noun an object with a spherical shape; `a ball of fire`
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24. ball
    verb form into a ball by winding or rolling; `ball wool`
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25. ball
    glob noun a compact mass; `a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder`
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