ball
/bɔːl/
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass; A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.; A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape; A food preparation formed into a spherical shape
- plural
- balls
Meanings
- 1
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass
Please throw me the ball.
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How much is this ball?
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- 2
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.; A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape
- 3
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.; A food preparation formed into a spherical shape
- 4
A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body
- 5
A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.; The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes
- 6
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
- 7
Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.; In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphererare
- 8
Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.; The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given pointrare
- 9
Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.; The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given pointrare
- 10
A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.; A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military originrare