{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "bɔl" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/ball.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/ball.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/ball.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (AU)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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 *bʰoln- (“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.\n\nA basketball", "From Middle French bal, from Middle French baler (“to dance”), from Old French baller, from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.\na ball of spittle; a fecal ball", "submean": [ "A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.\na ball of wool; a ball of twine" ] }, { "mean": "(mathematics) Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.", "submean": [ "(mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.", "(mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.", "(mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point." ] }, { "mean": "(ballistics, firearms) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.", "submean": [ "A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.", "(uncountable, obsolete) Such bullets collectively.\n" ] }, { "mean": "A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.\nthe ball of the thumb", "submean": [ "(anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes." ] }, { "mean": "The globe; the earthly sphere." }, { "mean": "(sports, countable) 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 but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game", "submean": [ "(uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.\nThe children were playing ball on the beach. George played his college ball at Stanford.", "", "(baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.", "(pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.\nIf you get to a million points, you get another ball.", "(cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.", "(soccer, countable) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.\n" ] }, { "mean": "(mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.", "submean": [ "(in the plural) Nonsense.\nThat’s a load of balls, and you know it!", "(in the plural) Courage.\nI doubt he’s got the balls to tell you off." ] }, { "mean": "(printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller." }, { "mean": "(farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus." }, { "mean": "(slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To form or wind into a ball.\nSynonyms: roll up, wad\nto ball cotton" }, { "mean": "(metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling." }, { "mean": "(transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with" }, { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.\nthe horse balls\nthe snow balls" }, { "mean": "(slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool." }, { "mean": "(university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.)" }, { "mean": "(nonstandard, slang) To play basketball." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain." } ] }, { "name": "Interjection", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about \"prior opportunity\" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.\n2007, “Laws Of The Afl 2007”, in AFL Sydney Swans Rules Zone‎, archived from the original on March 22, 2008:A good tackle (and some bad ones) will bring a cry of \"Ball!\" from the crowd – a plea for a holding the ball free kick." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A formal dance." }, { "mean": "(informal) A very enjoyable time.\nSynonyms: blast, whale of a time\nI had a ball at that concert." }, { "mean": "A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. 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