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PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: ball

1	n v	an object with a spherical shape form into a ball by winding or rolling
2	n	a lavish dance requiring formal attire
3	n	one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
4	n	the game of baseball

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: ball

n an object with a spherical shape

“a ball of fire”

Synonyms:: globe, orb

Types:: show 10 types...; hide 10 types...; crystal ball
a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers; camphor ball, mothball
a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing; time-ball
a ball that slides down a staff to show a fixed time; especially at an observatory; fireball
the luminous center of a nuclear explosion; fireball
a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning); globule
a small globe or ball; spherule
a small sphere; pellet
a small sphere; bolus
a small round soft mass (as of chewed food); bubble
a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)

Type of:: sphere
a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)

n a compact mass

“a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder”

Synonyms:: chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; clot, coagulum
a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid; gob
a lump of slimy stuff; clew
a ball of yarn or cord or thread; thrombus
a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin; embolus
an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood

Type of:: agglomeration
a jumbled collection or mass

n 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”

Type of:: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure
a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing

n round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games

“the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve”

“the mayor threw out the first ball”

“the ball rolled into the corner pocket”

Types:: show 34 types...; hide 34 types...; baseball
a ball used in playing baseball; basketball
an inflated ball used in playing basketball; billiard ball
ball used in playing billiards; bocce ball, bocci ball, boccie ball
wooden ball that is bowled in the Italian game of bocce; bowl
a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling; bowl, bowling ball
a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling; cricket ball
the ball used in playing cricket; croquet ball
a wooden ball used in playing croquet; field hockey ball
ball used in playing field hockey; football
the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football; golf ball
a small hard ball used in playing golf; dimpled to reduce wind resistance; handball
a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball; jack
a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling; lacrosse ball
ball used in playing lacrosse; marble
a small ball of glass that is used in various games; medicine ball
heavy ball used in physical training; ninepin ball, skittle ball
ball used to knock down ninepins; ping-pong ball
light hollow ball used in playing table tennis; polo ball
wooden ball that is struck with mallets in playing polo; pool ball
ball used in playing pool; punch bag, punchball, punching bag, punching ball
an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing; racquetball
the ball used in playing the game of racquetball; roulette ball
the ball used to play roulette; rugby ball
inflated oval ball used in playing rugby; soccer ball
an inflated ball used in playing soccer; playground ball, softball
ball used in playing softball; squash ball
rubber ball used in playing squash; tennis ball
ball about the size of a fist used in playing tennis; volleyball
an inflated ball used in playing volleyball; Wiffle, Wiffle Ball
(trademark) a hollow plastic ball with cutouts; cue ball
the ball that the billiard player or pool player strikes with his cue; eight ball
a black pool ball bearing the number 8; should be the last to go in certain pool games; object ball
the billiard ball that is intended to be the first ball struck by the cue ball; shooter, taw
a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles

Type of:: game equipment
equipment or apparatus used in playing a game

n a spherical object used as a plaything

“he played with his rubber ball in the bathtub”

Types:: beach ball, beachball
large and light ball; for play at the seaside; snowball
snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)

Type of:: plaything, toy
an artifact designed to be played with

n a solid projectile that is shot by a musket

“they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball”

Synonyms:: musket ball

Type of:: pellet, shot
a solid missile discharged from a firearm

v form into a ball by winding or rolling

“ball wool”

Type of:: roll, twine, wind, wrap
arrange or or coil around

n a lavish dance requiring formal attire

Synonyms:: formal

Types:: cotilion, cotillion
a ball at which young ladies are presented to society; fancy-dress ball, masked ball, masquerade ball
a ball at which guests wear costumes and masks; prom, promenade
a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year

Type of:: dance
a party for social dancing

n the people assembled at a lavish formal dance

“the ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded”

Type of:: dance
a party of people assembled for dancing

n one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

“she kicked him in the balls and got away”

Synonyms:: ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis

Types:: cobblers
a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball); undescended testicle, undescended testis
a testis that fails to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops

Type of:: gonad, sex gland
a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced; male reproductive gland
the reproductive organs of a man

n the game of baseball

“there was a desire for National League ball in the area”

“play ball!”

Types:: daisy cutter
a batted or served ball that skims along close to the ground

Type of:: baseball, baseball game
a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs

n a pitch that is not in the strike zone

“he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him”

Type of:: delivery, pitch
(baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter

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