(n.) An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
(n.) The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is 30 years since Paul Canoville became the first black footballer to play for Chelsea.
(2) I wish to clarify that for the period 1998 to 2002 I was employed by Fifa to work on a wide range of matters relating to football,” Platini wrote.
(3) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(4) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
(5) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
(6) Perhaps there were some other generations in Portuguese football with more talent, but they didn’t win.
(7) Alan Pardew faces punishment from the Football Association for his head-butt on Hull City's David Meyler.
(8) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(9) At the moment they’re playing some of the best football I’ve seen from any Tottenham team for many, many years.
(10) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
(11) He said: "I don't want to talk any more about politics for one reason because I'm not in the House[es] of Parliament, I'm not a political person, I will talk about only football."
(12) I would like to see much more of that money go down to the grassroots.” The Premier League argues that its focus must remain on investing in the best players and facilities and claims it invests more in so-called “good causes” than any other football league.
(13) The 79-year-old also described the Liverpool striker’s four-month suspension from all football , plus nine international matches and a £65,000 fine, as a “fascist ban”.
(14) 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.
(15) Massive pay packets are being used to lure foreign coaches and players from footballing nations such as Brazil in order to beautify the still dismal Chinese game.
(16) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
(17) Now serves as director of football and director of the academy at Crewe.
(18) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
(19) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(20) There could be no faulting the atmosphere or the football drama.
Pigskin
Definition:
(n.) The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fragments of lyophilized pigskin were used as 'germ carriers' and after 24 h of treatment the effectiveness of the antimicrobial creams was tested through the evaluation of bacterial recovery both from the surface and from within the 'germ carriers'.
(2) When using the pigskin model, however, care must be exercised to define the level of incisions and the location of flaps or grafts, with respect to the panniculus carnosus.
(3) Rabbits were selected randomly for the removal of the overlaid pigskin at days 7, 10 or 14 for the evaluation of the degree of epithelialization.
(4) Split-thickness pigskin graft (STPSG) was used to replace allograft skin for microskin grafting in 16 patients, nine of whom were burn patients, five suffered from traumatic defects and two from diabetic ulcers.
(5) These axial pattern flaps differed in their viability from similar flaps in humans, and anastomoses between discrete vascular territories were infrequent in pigskin.
(6) Main properties of fresh and three various kinds of preserved pigskin have been compared in our experiment.
(7) Forty burn patients were treated in last two years by the method of covering excised or tangentially excised wound with lyophilized glutaraldehyde pigskin, and then planned replacing by autograft skin according to patient's condition.
(8) We use pigskin as pattern, due to its similarity to human skin and a PUVA 200 Waldman as source of radiation.
(9) In areas where the overlaid pigskin was sloughing, the epithelialization of the underlying microskin grafts was not complete at the same time.
(10) Histological examination showed a cleaner separation of both rat skin and pigskin was obtained at 4 degrees C than at 37 degrees C. Large areas of skin (1600 mm2) could be separated easily as long as adequate amounts of solution were used.
(11) Experiments showed that as a local dressing for burns, non-laminated collagen sponge was significantly better than pigskin or xeroform.
(12) Tissue adherence values of preserved pigskin grafts were not lower or were a little lower than that of fresh pigskin graft at Phase I, and were higher or were a little higher at Phase II (no statistical difference respectively).
(13) In 129 of 140 attempts, human skin cells were successfully cultured on the dermal collagen bed of sterile, dead pigskin.
(14) Ease of availability, negligible cost and facilitated wound healing make this temporary biologic dressing generally superior to either cadaver skin allograft or pigskin xenograft.
(15) Histological examination of the removed pigskin 7 days after application showed obvious eosinophilic changes in the epidermal cells and pyknotic changes of the nuclei, however in some areas newly formed epidermis could be found.
(16) He was New York's seemingly unstoppable construction tsar, the man the press nicknamed "Big Bob the Builder", a master of backroom politics who was chauffeur-driven around the five boroughs in a black stretch limousine with pigskin seats.
(17) Results indicated that the rates of bacterial contamination of fresh pigskin sterilized by conventional method was 9.8%, while no positive culture had been found in preserved pig skins.
(18) Comparing with this value, permeability of radiated pigskin slightly decreased, permeability of glutaraldehyde treated pigskin (GAS) and chlorhexidine-alcohol refrigerated pigskin (ARS) significantly increased (P less than 0.001 respectively).
(19) James Jones jumps, and actually has his hands on the pigskin, but can't reel it in.
(20) The usefulness of in vivo-like culture system using a specialized collagen gel matrix (Spongostan) derived from pigskin was summarized.