Ball

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

   “a ball of spittle; a fecal ball”

2. isim A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

   “a ball of wool; a ball of twine”

3. isim In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
4. isim The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
5. isim The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
6. isim A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
7. isim Such bullets collectively.

   “[…] the Good Old Cause, which, as they seemed to represent it, smelt of Gunpowder and ball […]”

8. isim A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.

   “the ball of the thumb”

9. isim The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
10. isim The globe; the earthly sphere.

    “c. 1712', Joseph Addison, Ode to the Creator of the World What, though in solemn Silence, all / Move round the dark terrestrial Ball!”

11. isim An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

    “Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.”

12. isim Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.

    “The children were playing ball on the beach.”

13. isim A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
14. isim An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.

    “If you get to a million points, you get another ball.”

15. isim A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
16. isim a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)

    “After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno—Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut—nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.”

17. isim An apparatus.
18. isim An apparatus program with a ball.
19. isim A testicle.

    “Hitler has only got one ball, / Göring has two but very small, / Himmler is rather sim'lar, / But poor old Goebbels has no balls at all.”

20. isim Nonsense.

    “That’s a load of balls, and you know it!”

21. fiil To form or wind into a ball.

    “to ball cotton”

22. fiil To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
23. fiil To have sexual intercourse (with).

    “Max says it works both ways. “I mean if she comes in and tells me she wants to ball Don, maybe, I say ‘O.K., baby, it's your trip.’””

24. fiil To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

    “the horse balls”

25. fiil To be hip or cool.
26. fiil To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).

    “This highlights the issue of toxic masculinity in fraternities: a pledge only becomes a man, or a brother, by enduring as much abuse as he can and by proving his competence with girls. If he cannot, he is not only "balled" but seen as a "faggot" (this is a term directly from the work).”

27. fiil To play basketball.

    “fuck it, we ball”

28. fiil To spend money extravagantly.
29. fiil To punish by affixing a ball and chain.

    “any man refusing to do police duty will be punished by the sergts by balling him the rest of the day.”

30. fiil Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.