Football vs. Pill

Footballnoun

(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

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Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Footballnoun

American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

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Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

Footballnoun

Australian rules football.

Footballnoun

Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.

Footballnoun

rugby league.

Footballnoun

rugby union.

Footballnoun

(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

Footballnoun

(uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

Footballnoun

An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

Footballnoun

The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

Footballnoun

An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.

Footballnoun

The game played with a football{1}, by two opposing teams of players moving the ball between goals at opposite ends of a rectangular playing field. Outside the United States football refers to soccer, and in England, also to rugby, but in the United States the shape of the ball and the rules of the game are different.

Footballnoun

Soccer or rugby.

Footballnoun

Something which is treated in a rough manner, usually as part of a dispute; as, a political football.

Footballnoun

any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal

Footballnoun

the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football

Footballnoun

any of various forms of team game involving kicking (and in some cases also handling) a ball, in particular (in the UK) soccer or (in the US) American football

Footballnoun

the playing of football, especially in a stylish and entertaining way

Footballnoun

a ball used in football, either round (as in soccer) or oval (as in rugby and American football) and typically made of leather or plastic and filled with compressed air.

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a topical issue that is the subject of continued argument or controversy

Footballnoun

a briefcase containing authentication codes and other items that allow the US president to authorize a nuclear strike at any time

Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used.

Pillnoun

A small, usually cylindrical object designed for easy swallowing, usually containing some sort of medication.

Pillnoun

Contraceptive medication, usually in the form of a pill to be taken by a woman; an oral contraceptive pill.

Pillnoun

(slang) A comical or entertaining person.

Pillnoun

(slang) A contemptible, annoying, or unpleasant person.

Pillnoun

(informal) A small piece of any substance, for example a ball of fibres formed on the surface of a textile by rubbing.

Pillnoun

A baseball.

Pillnoun

A bullet (projectile).

Pillnoun

(GUI) A rounded rectangle indicating the tag or category that an item belongs to.

Pillnoun

(obsolete) The peel or skin.

Pillnoun

An inlet on the coast; a small tidal pool or bay.

Pillverb

Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber.

Pillverb

To form into the shape of a pill.

Pillverb

To medicate with pills.

Pillverb

(obsolete) To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.

Pillverb

To peel; to make by removing the skin.

Pillverb

To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Pillverb

(obsolete) To pillage; to despoil or impoverish.

Pillnoun

The peel or skin.

Pillnoun

A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

Pillnoun

Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

Pillverb

To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

Pillverb

To deprive of hair; to make bald.

Pillverb

To peel; to make by removing the skin.

Pillverb

To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.

Pillnoun

something that resembles a pill in shape or size

Pillnoun

a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet

Pillnoun

a unpleasant or tiresome person

Pillnoun

something unpleasant or offensive that must be tolerated or endured;

Pillnoun

a contraceptive in the form of a pill containing estrogen and progestin to inhibit ovulation and so prevent conception