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ball (BAWL)
1. Round mass, sphere, spheroid, globe, globule: "The cat played with the ball of twine."
2. Game of ball, ball game: "Four boys were playing ball in the field."
3. Shot, bullets, projectiles: "Each musket was loaded with powder and ball."
4. Dance, dancing party, promenade, prom: "The banquet was followed by a ball."
2. Game of ball, ball game: "Four boys were playing ball in the field."
3. Shot, bullets, projectiles: "Each musket was loaded with powder and ball."
4. Dance, dancing party, promenade, prom: "The banquet was followed by a ball."
ball, ball, bawl, brawl
ball (BAWL) (noun)
1. Round mass, sphere, globe: The cat played with the ball of twine.
2. Games which may involve using a round object to hit or to kick: Four boys were playing ball in the field.
3. Shot, bullets, projectiles: Each musket was loaded with powder and ball.
2. Games which may involve using a round object to hit or to kick: Four boys were playing ball in the field.
3. Shot, bullets, projectiles: Each musket was loaded with powder and ball.
ball (BAWL) (noun)
1. Dance, dancing party, prom: The banquet was followed by a ball.
2. A large formal party for dancing: All of the students were invited to the university ball.
2. A large formal party for dancing: All of the students were invited to the university ball.
bawl (BAWL) (verb)
1. Cry, wail, howl, weep: The little boy was so upset that he began to bawl for his mother.
2. To speak very loudly: The children were misbehaving so badly and the father was so frustrated, that he could only bawl at them to settle down.
2. To speak very loudly: The children were misbehaving so badly and the father was so frustrated, that he could only bawl at them to settle down.
brawl (BRAWL) (noun)
1. A noisy quarrel or fight: A brawl broke out among the fans after the football game.
2. A loud party: Neighbors were disturbed by the brawl that was going on after midnight.
3. A loud, roaring noise: Vince was involved in a brawl at the bar.
2. A loud party: Neighbors were disturbed by the brawl that was going on after midnight.
3. A loud, roaring noise: Vince was involved in a brawl at the bar.
Sebastian got into a terrible brawl at the end of the ball game and his wife started to bawl when she saw him being attacked by a player from the other team.
Later in the evening, Lenora and Scot went to a ball at the hotel and had a ball, dancing and eating fine food.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group B; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
(page 1)
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“ball”
(Greek: "blood " plus Latin: "sphere, ball"; oxygen-carrying protein of the red corpuscles)
(Greek: ball, round, around; globe, global; body of globular form; by extension, circular zone, circular area)
(Greek: anklebone, talus ball of ankle joint; dice, die [the Greeks made these from ankle bones])
(Greek: throw, send, put; that which is thrown)
(Greek > Latin: onion, bulbous root, bulb; ball-shaped part of the stem of certain plants; such as, onions, tulips etc, from which their roots grow)
(meaning and origin)
(French: degree of merit or importance; diameter of a bullet, cannon-ball, etc.; instrument for measuring the thickness, width, or distance through the center of a tube)
(Latin: a round body, a ball; round, a sphere; the earth; "sphere" came from Latin globus, "round mass, sphere"; related to gleba, "clod, soil, land". Sense of "planet earth," or a three-dimensional map of it, appeared first in 1553)
Word Entries containing the term:
“ball”
1. The globe of the eye.
2. The eye proper without the appendages.
2. The eye proper without the appendages.
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eye, eyes +
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spark ball electrode, spark-ball electrode
A metal sphere (ball) mounted at the end of a metal rod with an insulated handle.
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electro-, electr-, electri-
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Word Entries at Get Words containing the term:
“ball”
Calendar,The Whole Ball of Wax
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Units of Special Compositions, Topics, or Subjects That Provide Special Information
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