Ball
(n.) Any round or roundish body or mass |
Ball
(n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. |
Ball
(n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. |
Ball
(n.) Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm |
Ball
(n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air |
Ball
(n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock |
Ball
(n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body |
Ball
(n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses |
Ball
(n.) The globe or earth. |
Ball
(v. i.) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay |
Ball
(v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. |
Ball
(v. t.) To form or wind into a ball |
Ball
(n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing. |
Ball-flower
(n.) An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. |
Fair-world
(n.) State of prosperity. |
Globe
(n.) A round or spherical body, solid or hollow |
Globe
(n.) Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape |
Globe
(n.) The earth |
Globe
(n.) A round model of the world |
Globe
(n.) A body of troops, or of men or animals, drawn up in a circle |
Globe
(v. t.) To gather or form into a globe. |
Globe-shaped
(a.) Shaped like a globe. |
Minie ball
() A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel. |
Puddle-ball
(n.) The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled. |
Whitworth ball
() A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun. |
World
(n.) The earth and the surrounding heavens |
World
(n.) Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests |
World
(n.) The earth and its inhabitants, with their concerns |
World
(n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one |
World
(n.) The customs, practices, and interests of men |
World
(n.) Individual experience of, or concern with, life |
World
(n.) The inhabitants of the earth |
World
(n.) The earth and its affairs as distinguished from heaven |
World
(n.) As an emblem of immensity, a great multitude or quantity |
World-wide
(a.) Extended throughout the world |
| world record | the best record in the whole world |
ballup
balls-up
cockup
mess-up a | something badly botched or muddled |
| ball | a pitch that is not in the strike zone, he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him |
change-up
change-of-pace
change-of-pace ball
off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
curve curve ball
breaking ball
bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
| passed ball | a pitch that the catcher should have caught but did not, allows a base runner to advance a base |
submarine ball
submarine pitch | a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead |
base on balls
walk pass | (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls, he worked the pitcher for a base on balls |
| fair ball | (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field |
| foul ball | (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field |
fly
fly ball | (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air |
grounder
ground ball
groundball
hopper | (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground |
| jump ball | (basketball) the way play begins or resumes when possession is disputed, an official tosses the ball up between two players who jump in an effort to tap it to a teammate |
ball game
ballgame | a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) |
| ball | the game of baseball |
googly
wrong 'un
bosie
bosie ball | a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way |
| no ball | unlawfully delivered ball in cricket, the umpire called it a no ball |
| ball hawking | a skillful maneuver in catching balls or in stealing the ball from the opposing team |
let
net ball | a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court, the ball must be served again |
ball-buster
ball-breaker | a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing, Vietnam was a ball-breaker |
| world war | a war in which the major nations of the world are involved |
world affairs
international affairs | affairs between nations, you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television |
the way of the world
the ways of the world | the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen, the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world, she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil, he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world |
World War I
World War
Great War
First World War
War to End War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from to |
World War II
World War
Second World War | a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Slovakia, Thailand) from to |
New World goldfinch
goldfinch yellowbird Spinus tristis | American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer |
| New World sparrow | sparrow-like North American finches |
New World flycatcher
flycatcher tyrant flycatcher
tyrant bird | large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing |
Old World flycatcher
true flycatcher
flycatcher | any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing |
Old World chat
chat | songbirds having a chattering call |
robin redbreast
robin redbreast Old World robin
Erithacus rubecola | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast |
Old World warbler
true warbler | small active brownish or greyish Old World birds |
New World warbler
wood warbler | small brightolored American songbird with a weak unmusical song |
New World chat
chat | birds having a chattering call |
New World oriole
American oriole
oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
New World blackbird
blackbird | any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or predominantly black |
Old World oriole
oriole | mostly tropical songbird, the male is usually bright orange and black |
| Old World jay | a European jay |
| New World jay | a North American jay |
| Old World vulture | any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia |
New World vulture
cathartid | large birds of prey superficially similar to Old World vultures |
Old World scops owl
Otus scops | European scops owl |
coral snake harlequin-snake
New World coral snake | any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, widely distributed in South America and Central America |
| coral snake Old World coral snake | any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
| Old World quail | small game bird with a rounded body and small tail |
Old World crayfish
ecrevisse | small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America |
Old World coot
Fulica atra | a coot found in Eurasia |
Old world white pelican
Pelecanus onocrotalus | similar to American white pelican |
European rabbit
Old World rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus | common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere, widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs, young are born naked and helpless |
| New World mouse | a variety of rodent |