(n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
(n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
(n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
(n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.
(n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
(n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
(n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
(n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
(n.) The globe or earth.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
(v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
(n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
Example Sentences:
(1) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(2) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
(3) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.
(4) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(5) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.
(6) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(7) We have now found that these cells, cultured as a monolayer, are able to undergo rapid morphogenesis forming ridges and balls around collagen fibres, when soluble collagen type I is added to the medium.
(8) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
(9) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
(10) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
(11) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
(12) 7 right-handed male university students stood behind a large Plexiglas screen and spatially matched a ball projected over a distance of 20 feet.
(13) The ball sat up; gravity would bring it down again and, when it did, he would score.
(14) 3.14pm BST 14 mins: It's quite a pleasing thing that, some 22 years after the passback rule was put in place, fans still applaud a player heading the ball back to the keeper.
(15) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
(16) The ball's lost, but Tiago gifts it back to Bale, who makes for the Atlético area with great purpose.
(17) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
(18) His first ball reaches Ali at hip height and he flicks him to fine leg for a boundary that takes him to a quite epic century.
(19) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
(20) 8.39pm GMT 44 mins: Bunbury is sent clear on Sporting's left but nobody is up in support and he loses the ball.
Monde
Definition:
(n.) The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.
Example Sentences:
(1) This story appeared in Guardian Weekly , which incorporates material from Le Monde
(2) Despite the language of technocrats like Florian Philippot, the Front National is still the Front National, a party that’s racist, anti-semitic and extreme-right,” Sacha Ghozlan, of the Union of Jewish students of France, told Le Monde at the protest.
(3) Hollande told Le Monde on Friday that France wants "proportional and firm action", adding that the chemical weapons attack in Syria "cannot and must not remain unpunished".
(4) • Meanwhile Le Monde reported that the DGSE, France's external intelligence agency, may have established a “protocol” of exchanging data with the US at around the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012.
(5) Looking pale and drawn, he says: “We are trying to find out where he is, which hospital, but everything is very difficult here … I am trying, but it is difficult.” Hussain, speaking outside the makeshift field hospital run by medical charity Médicins du Monde, says his cousin Sadiq suffered serious head and chest injuries as the pair clung on to a moving train in the early hours of the morning.
(6) The buyer, Monde Nissin – best known for its instant noodles – tabled its winning bid after Quorn Foods had enjoyed its best-ever six months, with sales rising by 7% across the 23 countries where its products are sold.
(7) Witnesses told newspaper Le Monde that a father from one of the families complained about someone taking a photograph of his wife.
(8) The reports in Le Monde, which were co-written by the outgoing Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald – who worked with Snowden to lay bare the extent of the NSA's actions – claimed that between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013 the NSA recorded 70.3m phone calls in France.
(9) Following reports by Le Monde this week about the huge scale of US surveillance of France, Hollande insisted that the issue be raised at a summit which, by coincidence, is largely devoted to the "digital" economy in Europe .
(10) Le Monde reported that the jets dropped at least two, 250kg (550lb) bombs on militant targets.
(11) With five police officers standing guard outside the room, and more on the street below where the iron shutters had been closed since Wednesday, a delivery of computers was accepted on loan from Le Monde, the heating was turned up and the windows were opened to let the team smoke.
(12) The French financial prosecutor is looking into whether “the calculations constitute forgeries made to justify, after the fact, the wages that were paid”, Le Monde reported .
(13) Mondli Makhanya is an editor at large for City Press, based in Johannesburg
(14) The Guardian is teaming up with Der Spiegel , Le Monde and El País to report from inside refugee communities in four of Europe’s biggest countries.
(15) According to the French newspaper Le Monde Abdeslam, a French national who grew up in Brussels, will almost certainly appear before a French judge or judges, charged with some of the most serious crimes in local law.
(16) Le Monde says France is in the unusual situation of having four presidential candidates, any one of whom could win.
(17) Documents obtained by the French daily Le Monde illustrate just how cooperative French magistrates have been with prosecutors abroad.
(18) But while graffiti artists have benefited from the radical chic factor, the beau monde never hired street vendors to give them some rebellious cool.
(19) 2005 Fined €10,000 by a Paris court for "inciting racial hatred" in anti-Islamic comments he made in an interview with Le Monde .
(20) Before Obama's call, the White House responded to the claims in Le Monde by saying that the US "gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations".