(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cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.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.
Slider
Definition:
(a.) See Slidder.
(n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
(n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).
Example Sentences:
(1) To address whether temperature and estrogen are biologically equivalent, two experiments were conducted with the red-eared slider turtle, Trachemys scripta.
(2) Will Middlebrooks walks the plank, waving at a slider inside to become K-X.
(3) The righty deals to Descalso and strikes him out on six pitches - a slider.
(4) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
(5) 5.53pm GMT Just seven more sliders to slide in the men’s singles luge.
(6) Cell Slider Photograph: CRUK Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer.
(7) Then Martinez is hit by a slider that barely grazes V-Mart putting him at first with two outs.
(8) Three patients (14%) showed evidence of fixator binding, and another four (18%) had less than predicted slider excursions.
(9) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(10) Martinez throws a backdoor slider that goes to the very very back of Victorino!
(11) Jackson throws a nastier slider right in the dirt that makes Freese looks foolish.
(12) 1.56am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st Carlos Beltran is next, and he looks at strike three for the second out - a slider away.
(13) These are respectively a four jack system, a serrated wedge system, a spherical alignment system and a serrated slider.
(14) Jackson fouls off a slider that he probably would want back.
(15) But a large chunk of the £3.4m poured into the sport over four years goes on transporting the team around the world and technology to video the various tracks, which is then analysed and learned off by heart by the sliders.
(16) He's one of those CEOs who believes in rewarding his staff, who get £6.90 an hour (which buys you 30 Chicken Zingy Sliders and a tub of Reduced Fat Coleslaw), and seem to stay with the firm for years, which must mean something.
(17) The Rockies were completely stymied by the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, who had all of his pitches working on Wednesday – fastball, curveball, change up and a slider, one that finished the Rockies for the night and set off a celebration.
(18) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(19) He finished off the big swinging team from Colorado with ease, Corey Dickerson no match for his final pitch, a slider he swung through for strike three.
(20) Coke throws a slider, but it's out of the zone and Belt didn't offer.