(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cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.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.
Snowball
Definition:
(n.) A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.
(n.) The Guelder-rose.
(v. t.) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
(v. i.) To throw snowballs.
Example Sentences:
(1) For accurate diagnosis of INCL a biopsy with characteristic EM findings of "snowball" aggregates is a necessity.
(2) Edinburgh students called on outside supporters to stage snowball fights in solidarity, while Oxford's Facebook page features support from sympathisers, but also anger from English and theology students unable to get hold of books and data for this week's essays.
(3) The number of complaints is expected to snowball with further press coverage of the fallout from the stunt.
(4) The too-liberal availability of payday loans has created an easy way for people in desperate need to defer their shortfall temporarily but cause it to snowball in the long run.
(5) 'The positive critical reception, word of mouth and the rise of Nordic noir fiction has seen a snowball effect on the popularity of subtitled drama' The Returned Were it not for the success of The Killing et al, The Returned might have found itself quietly picking up a small but loyal audience in a graveyard slot on E4, or the network might have preferred to wait for the forthcoming US remake.
(6) I really hope there's a snowball effect from that," said Glover, who was signed up to the Sporting Giants programme trawling for talent in rowing, handball and volleyball in 2008.
(7) Snowballing and personal contacts were the most successful means of recruiting those not in treatment, while advertising was comparatively unsuccessful with this group because of the importance of establishing the credibility of the study and the interviewer among injecting drug users before they will volunteer to be involved.
(8) There is a real prospect of deficits snowballing and, unless the government finds extra money, an accelerating decline in NHS performance and a deterioration in patient care”, said Richard Murray, director of policy at the King’s Fund.
(9) I think it is a question of as and when policy, albeit coordinated or on a region basis, if policy starts to have an impact on demand, then we could potentially see thekind of scenario evolve where demand is weaker, supply starts to moderate and then these higher cost producers would be some of the first affected... It’s not that they are going to fall of a cliff that quickly, but they would not continue to reinvest [in developing those reserves].” Wilkins said the divestment movement was being closely watched and appeared to be snowballing.
(10) Some people in Washington helpfully used a snowball to illustrate that fact.
(11) When the shit started hitting the fan Stateside, the original plan to open Brian on 200 screens nationwide snowballed to nearer 600.
(12) Respondents were contacted by "snowballing", mainly with the assistance of sex workers.
(13) Lebedev, who co-owns the opposition Novaya Gazeta newspaper, said his platform would include protecting the city's rapidly disappearing cultural heritage; improving its 'impossible' traffic; scrapping its airline business; and reducing corruption.Writing on his blog last Thursday (June 18), he observed: 'The city's problems are getting bigger, like a snowball.
(14) It is a year since speculation over Jobs' health started to snowball, following an appearance at the same event that saw him looking drastically thin and frail.
(15) Interview subjects were selected by "strategic informant snowball sampling," a type of purpose sampling used in anthropological studies, best for collecting descriptive data.
(16) In a foreword to the report, Carne said: “In very complex projects sometimes simple things go wrong and these can snowball in short periods of time to become major issues.
(17) Over the last few years, her suggestion that local organisations stop trying to reform existing NGO networks and instead form their own has snowballed.
(18) A senior Sinn Féin spokesman later told the Guardian there “wasn’t a snowball’s chance in hell” of the party ditching its abstentionism regarding Westminster.
(19) "Kids are having a snowball fight on the side of the road, making snow angels, people are walking their dogs."
(20) At the moment, we’re a snowball that’s turning over fairly slowly,” says the Greens’ leader, Natalie Bennett.