Ball vs. Sphere

Ballnoun

A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.

Ballnoun

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

Ballnoun

(ballistics) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, etc.

Ballnoun

A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body.

Ballnoun

(anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.

Ballnoun

The globe; the earthly sphere.

Ballnoun

(mathematics) The set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point; specifically, the homologue of the disk in a Euclidean space of any number of dimensions.

Ballnoun

The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point; the analogue of the disk in a Euclidean space.

Ballnoun

An object, generally spherical, used for playing games.

Ballnoun

(sport) A round or ellipsoidal object.

Ballnoun

Any simple game involving a ball.

Ballnoun

(baseball) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.

Ballnoun

(pinball) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.

Ballnoun

(cricket) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.

Ballnoun

(soccer) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.

Ballnoun

A testicle.

Ballnoun

Nonsense.

Ballnoun

Courage.

Ballnoun

A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.

Ballnoun

A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.

Ballnoun

A formal dance.

Ballnoun

(informal) A very enjoyable time.

Ballverb

(transitive) To form or wind into a ball.

Ballverb

(metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

Ballverb

To have sexual intercourse with.

Ballverb

(ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

Ballverb

To be hip or cool.

Ballverb

To play basketball.

Ballinterjection

(Australian rules football) 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.

Ballnoun

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

Ballnoun

A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.

Ballnoun

A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.

Ballnoun

Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; - often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

Ballnoun

A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

Ballnoun

A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; - formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

Ballnoun

A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.

Ballnoun

A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.

Ballnoun

The globe or earth.

Ballnoun

A pitched ball, not struck at by the batter, which fails to pass over the home plate at a height not greater than the batter's shoulder nor less than his knee (i.e. it is outside the strike zone). If the pitcher pitches four balls before three strikes are called, the batter advances to first base, and the action of pitching four balls is called a walk.

Ballnoun

a testicle; usually used in the plural.

Ballnoun

courage; nerve.

Ballnoun

A social assembly for the purpose of dancing; - usually applied to an occasion lavish or formal.

Ballnoun

A very enjoyable time; as, we had a ball at the wedding.

Ballverb

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

Ballverb

To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

Ballverb

To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.

Ballnoun

round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games;

Ballnoun

a solid ball shot by a musket;

Ballnoun

an object with a spherical shape;

Ballnoun

the people assembled at a lavish formal dance;

Ballnoun

one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens;

Ballnoun

a spherical object used as a plaything;

Ballnoun

United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)

Ballnoun

a compact mass;

Ballnoun

a lavish formal dance

Ballnoun

a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass; ball of the human foot or ball at the base of the thumb;

Ballnoun

a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run;

Ballnoun

a pitch that is not in the strike zone;

Ballverb

form into a ball by winding or rolling;

Ballnoun

a solid or hollow spherical or egg-shaped object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game

Ballnoun

a spherical object or mass of material

Ballnoun

a solid non-explosive missile for a firearm.

Ballnoun

a game played with a ball

Ballnoun

baseball

Ballnoun

(in cricket) a delivery of the ball by the bowler to the batsman

Ballnoun

(in soccer) a pass of the ball in a specified direction or manner

Ballnoun

(in baseball) a pitch delivered outside the strike zone which the batter does not attempt to hit

Ballnoun

the rounded protuberant part of the foot at the base of the big toe.

Ballnoun

the rounded protuberant part of the hand at the base of the thumb.

Ballnoun

a formal social gathering for dancing

Ballverb

squeeze or form (something) into a rounded shape

Ballverb

clench (one's fist) tightly

Ballverb

form a round shape

Ballverb

wrap the root ball of (a tree or shrub) to protect it during transportation.

Ballverb

have sexual intercourse with.

Ballverb

(of a flower) fail to open properly, decaying in the half-open bud.

Ball

A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but can sometimes be ovoid) with various uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players.

Spherenoun

(mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a circle about its diameter .

Spherenoun

A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.

Spherenoun

The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.

Spherenoun

Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres).

Spherenoun

(mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.

Spherenoun

(figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.

Spherenoun

(geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology) that are a fixed distance from a fixed point .

Spherenoun

(logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.

Sphereverb

(transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.

Sphereverb

(transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.

Spherenoun

A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

Spherenoun

Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.

Spherenoun

The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.

Spherenoun

The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.

Spherenoun

Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.

Spherenoun

Rank; order of society; social positions.

Spherenoun

An orbit, as of a star; a socket.

Sphereverb

To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.

Sphereverb

To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.

Spherenoun

a particular environment or walk of life;

Spherenoun

any spherically shaped artifact

Spherenoun

the geographical area in which one nation is very influential

Spherenoun

a particular aspect of life or activity;

Spherenoun

a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)

Spherenoun

a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center

Spherenoun

the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

Spherenoun

a round solid figure, or its surface, with every point on its surface equidistant from its centre.

Spherenoun

a spherical object; a ball or globe

Spherenoun

a globe representing the earth

Spherenoun

a celestial body

Spherenoun

the sky perceived as a vault upon or in which celestial bodies are represented as lying.

Spherenoun

each of a series of revolving concentrically arranged spherical shells in which celestial bodies were formerly thought to be set in a fixed relationship.

Spherenoun

an area of activity, interest, or expertise; a section of society or an aspect of life distinguished and unified by a particular characteristic

Sphereverb

enclose in or as if in a sphere

Sphereverb

form into a rounded or perfect whole

Sphere

A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα—sphaira, ) is a geometrical object in three-dimensional space that is the surface of a ball (viz., analogous to the circular objects in two dimensions, where a circumscribes its ). Like a circle in a two-dimensional space, a sphere is defined mathematically as the set of points that are all at the same distance r from a given point in a three-dimensional space.