(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cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.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.
Pome
Definition:
(n.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.
(n.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.
(n.) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
Example Sentences:
(1) After injection of WGA-HRP-colloidal gold into the PVN, many neurons were retrogradely labeled in the POMe; some of them were immunoreactive to Met-enkephalin-Arg6-Gly7-Leu8 (mE8) or substance P (SP).
(2) The densities of nerve terminals immunoreactive to neuropeptide tyrosine, mENK8, SP or noradrenaline are high throughout the POMe, while nerve terminals immunoreactive to CCK8, LHRH, NT, SRIF or vasoactive intestinal polypeptide are moderate and those immunoreactive to calcitonin gene-related peptide, serotonin or dopamine are sparse.
(3) We followed 137 children who were found to have persistent otitis media with effusion (POME) one month after the diagnosis of acute otitis media.
(4) The branched methyl alpha-D-mannotrioside, alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Manp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-Man pOMe, the best inhibitor of the Con A-Dextran interaction, was 42 times more potent than alpha-D-ManpOMe, and 3-6 times more potent than the two trisaccharides substituted with D-glucosyl groups, and 8-15 times those with D-galactosyl groups.
(5) The nucleus preopticus medianus (POMe) is known to be important for the regulation of fluid balance and cardiovascular control.
(6) On the other hand, all branched trisaccharides exhibited very similar inhibitory potencies toward the daffodil lectin (NPA)-D-mannan interaction, whereas alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Galp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-ManpOMe++ + and alpha-D-Manp-(1----3)-[alpha-D-Manp-(1----6)]-alpha-D-Man pOMe were somewhat better inhibitors than the other branched trisaccharides of the amaryllis lectin (HHA)-D-mannan precipitation reaction.
(7) These data indicate that children with POME one month following acute otitis media may benefit from an additional course of antibiotics.
(8) We have studied the detection of apple scar skin, dapple apple, and pear rusty skin viroids in nucleic acid extracts of infected pome fruit tissues by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with viroid cDNA-specific primers.
(9) This varied distributional pattern of immunoreactive nerve cells and terminals suggests regional differences in function within the POMe.
(10) The results indicate that mE8- and SP-immunoreactive neurons in the POMe send their axons to the PVN.
(11) Nerve cells immunoreactive to substance P (SP) are seen in the middle and caudal POMe and those immunoreactive to somatostatin (SRIF) are scattered in the middle part of the nucleus.
(12) The results demonstrate the efficacy of pulse-dosed antibiotics in the management of POME.
(13) for pomes, berries, stone fruits, kernel fruits and also for potatoes) the thin-layer chromatographic method seems likewise to be suited (also in considering that it is semi-quantitative by nature); especially since the spectrophotometric method yields values by 0.2 p.p.m.
(14) A detailed regional distribution of nerve cells and terminals immunoreactive to polypeptides or monoamines was examined in the 5 subdivisions (rostral, mid-dorsal, mid-ventral, caudo-dorsal and caudo-ventral parts) of the nucleus preopticus medianus (POMe) of the rat.
(15) Persistence and distribution of residues on the edible portions of produce have been reported for citrus fruits, pome fruits, stone fruits, mangos, strawberries, bananas, kiwi fruits, avocados, some minor fruit commodities, and bell peppers and tomatoes.
(16) Direct projections from the POMe to the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PVN), where vasopressin-containing neurons exist, were examined in the rat using immunohistochemistry combined with a retrograde tract tracing method.
(17) This study is designed to demonstrate the efficacy of antibiotics administered in a single daily dose in the management of persistent otitis media with effusion (POME).
(18) The closely related apple scar skin viroid (ASSV) and dapple apple viroid (DAV) were identified in whole seeds from infected pome fruits by hybridization of extracted nucleic acids with a 32P-labelled ASSV cRNA probe.
(19) Here, we are dealing with what is known as food-associated allergy syndrome, which is largely based on a cross reaction between certain types of pollen (birch, alder, hazel and mugwort) and food allergens (drupes, pomes, nuts, vegetables such as celery, carrots and fennel, etc.).
(20) The recent trends in the possible use of irradiation for disinfestation of certain pome and stone fruits and the prospects for the commercial utilization of irradiation for improving the market life of strawberries are discussed.