ball

ball is a 4-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 26 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
2. noun. A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
3. noun. A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. 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cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
7. noun. A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
8. noun. A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
9. noun. The globe or earth.
10. intransitive verb. 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.
11. transitive verb. To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
12. transitive verb. To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
13. noun. A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
14. noun. a pitch that is not in the strike zone

    "he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him"

15. noun. the game of baseball
16. noun. round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games

    "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"

    "the mayor threw out the first ball"

17. noun. a spherical object used as a plaything

    "he played with his rubber ball in the bathtub"

18. noun. a solid projectile that is shot by a musket

    "they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball"

19. noun. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

    "she kicked him in the balls and got away"

    Synonyms: ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis

20. noun. a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass

    "the ball at the base of the thumb"

    "he stood on the balls of his feet"

21. noun. a lavish dance requiring formal attire

    Synonyms: formal

22. noun. a compact mass

    "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"

    Synonyms: chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump

23. noun. the people assembled at a lavish formal dance

    "the ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded"

24. noun. United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)
25. noun. an object with a spherical shape

    "a ball of fire"

    Synonyms: globe, orb

26. verb. form into a ball by winding or rolling

    "ball wool"

Synonyms

ballock, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis, formal, chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump, globe, orb

Common word forms

balls, balled, baller, balling

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