noun Download 🔗Share A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. Examples : "a ball of spittle; a fecal ball" sport physics game item essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A round or ellipsoidal object. Examples : "The children played with a bright red ball in the park. " sport game item essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle. Examples : "The doctor examined the boy's balls carefully during the checkup. " body sex anatomy organ essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller. Examples : "The printer used the old ball to ink the printing form. " technology machine writing essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus. Examples : "The veterinarian gave the horse a ball of medicine to treat its cough. " medicine animal essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To form or wind into a ball. Examples : "to ball cotton" action process essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls. Examples : "The horse balls; the snow balls." nature action essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool. Examples : "My younger sister is always balling out at school dances. " style culture entertainment essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To play basketball. Examples : "After school, the kids will ball at the park. " sport essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To punish by affixing a ball and chain Examples : "The judge ordered the prisoner to be ball-and-chained as a severe punishment. " law essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
interjection Download 🔗Share An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled. Examples : ""Ball!" shouted the crowd as the opposing player went down. " sport entertainment language communication action essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A formal dance. Examples : "The school held a ball to celebrate the end of the academic year. " dance entertainment event culture essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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