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- A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling
- (New England) Candlepin bowling.
- (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
- Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
- (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
- (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
- (Ireland) Road bowling.
- (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
- a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
- the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
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- (cricket, slang, derogatory, uncountable) Easy bowling
- (uncountable, chiefly British, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
- (UK, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
- (UK, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan
- (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- pretentious or silly talk or writing
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- (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
- (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
- (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- (ambitransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
- (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
- (intransitive) To become converted.
- (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- (ambitransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- (transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- (American football) To score extra points following a touchdown.
- cause to adopt a new or different faith
- change the nature, purpose, or function of something
- change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change
- change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
- change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone
- make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
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- Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
- (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
- A person who has converted to a religion.
- A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
- a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief
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- (slang, bowling, intransitive) To switch to using a stronger bowling ball.
- (intransitive, MTE, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, of a drill) To produce a lip of debris around the drill hole.
- (transitive) To crush or form into a ball shape.
- (transitive) To form melted metals into balls or lumps to roll them out of a furnace for further use.
- (intransitive) To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
- (intransitive) To become ball-shaped.
- (skiing, of skis) To become covered in damp snow.
- (ambitransitive) To coil up into a ball.
- (basketball, intransitive) To play basketball, especially playing well.
- (transitive, slang) To ruin or botch.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
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- (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- a concave shape with an open top
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
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- engage in the sport of bowling
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- roll (a ball)
- hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
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- a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
- (uncountable, chiefly chess) An informal form of chess played without a clock.
- plural of skittle
- (mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
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- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (Misesian praxeology, Austrian economics) Purposeful behavior.
- (military) Combat.
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- (slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
- (music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
- A demonstration by activists.
- (mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (sciences) A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- Fast-paced activity.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- (Christianity) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- (firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
- (literature) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the series of events that form a plot
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- the state of being active
- a military engagement
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
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- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
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- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To perform the duties of a king.
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- (sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
- (manufacturing) To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
- To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
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- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- To yield or make concession.
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
- be willing to concede
- acknowledge defeat
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
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- Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
- (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
- (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
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- (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
- A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
- (informal) A very enjoyable time.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus.
- (slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars.
- A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
- (sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
- A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
- A formal dance.
- The globe; the earthly sphere.
- (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
- (in the plural) Courage.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
- (mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
- (in the plural) Nonsense.
- (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
- (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ball.
- (originally soccer, countable) a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
- A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
- (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
- (uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
- A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
- round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- an object with a spherical shape
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a spherical object used as a plaything
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
- a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
- a compact mass
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
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- (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
- (sports) An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
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- (ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
- (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
- (transitive, intransitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (slang) To play basketball.
- (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
- (African-American Vernacular) To spend money extravagantly.
- (intransitive) To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).
- (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
- (university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
- (transitive) Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
- form into a ball by winding or rolling
- to live very well
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- (bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.
- (cricket) The player currently bowling.
- (cricket) A player selected mainly for their bowling ability.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.
- A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
- a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins
- a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim
- a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket
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- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- a single drawing in a comic strip
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- a structure supporting or containing something
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (crime) A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (operating systems) Clipping of page frame or memory frame.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
- (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
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- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
- formulate in a particular style or language
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- make up plans or basic details for
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- enclose in a frame, as of a picture
- (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- (transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
- (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
- (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- (transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
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- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- One who or that which guts.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (British) A drainage channel.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- a tool for gutting fish
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
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- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
- provide with gutters
- flow in small streams
- wear or cut gutters into
- burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
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- (cricket, historical) A delivery by lob bowling (no longer legal).
- A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
- A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
- (slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
- (Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.
- A seat post whose height can be adjusted while riding.
- (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
- (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
- (botany) The young bulb of a tulip, not of flowering size.
- One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
- (cricket, historical) A bowler who makes such deliveries.
- (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
- (tennis, informal) A drop shot.
- pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time
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- (countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang, derogatory) A prostitute.
- A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
- A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
- (countable, medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
- (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
- (countable, US, slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
- (countable, US, slang) A failure.
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
- flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
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- (cricket) A ball bowled.
- The item which has been conveyed.
- (baseball) A thrown pitch.
- The act of conveying something.
- (medicine) The administration of a drug.
- (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
- (soccer) A cross or pass
- The manner of speaking or singing.
- (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (baseball) A pitching motion.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
- the act of delivering a child
- the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- the event of giving birth
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
noun
- A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling
- (New England) Candlepin bowling.
- (cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
- Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
- (gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
- (slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
- (Ireland) Road bowling.
- (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman
- a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
- the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc
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- (cricket, slang, derogatory, uncountable) Easy bowling
- (uncountable, chiefly British, slang, rare) Valuables retrieved from drains and sewers.
- (UK, humorous slang, uncountable) Used as a form of address.
- (UK, archaic school slang, countable) A bath or foot pan
- (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Rubbish, trash, (now especially) nonsense, bosh, balderdash
- pretentious or silly talk or writing
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- (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- a concave shape with an open top
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
verb
- engage in the sport of bowling
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- roll (a ball)
- hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
noun
- a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
- (uncountable, chiefly chess) An informal form of chess played without a clock.
- plural of skittle
- (mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
verb
noun
- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (Misesian praxeology, Austrian economics) Purposeful behavior.
- (military) Combat.
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- (slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
- (music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
- A demonstration by activists.
- (mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (sciences) A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- Fast-paced activity.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- (Christianity) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- (firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
- (literature) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the series of events that form a plot
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
- the state of being active
- a military engagement
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
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verb
noun
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A king-sized bed.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To perform the duties of a king.
noun
- (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
- A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
- (informal) A very enjoyable time.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus.
- (slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars.
- A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.
- (sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
- A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
- A formal dance.
- The globe; the earthly sphere.
- (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
- (in the plural) Courage.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
- (mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
- (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
- (in the plural) Nonsense.
- (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
- (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
- (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a ball.
- (originally soccer, countable) a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
- A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
- (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
- (uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
- A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
- round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
- an object with a spherical shape
- a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- a spherical object used as a plaything
- a pitch that is not in the strike zone
- a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
- a compact mass
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
intj
- (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
- (sports) An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
- (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
- (transitive, intransitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (slang) To play basketball.
- (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
- (African-American Vernacular) To spend money extravagantly.
- (intransitive) To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).
- (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
- (university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
- (transitive) Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
- form into a ball by winding or rolling
- to live very well
noun
- (bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.
- (cricket) The player currently bowling.
- (cricket) A player selected mainly for their bowling ability.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.
- A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
- a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins
- a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim
- a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket
noun
- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- a single drawing in a comic strip
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- a structure supporting or containing something
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (crime) A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (operating systems) Clipping of page frame or memory frame.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
- (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
verb
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
- formulate in a particular style or language
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- make up plans or basic details for
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- enclose in a frame, as of a picture
- (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- (transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
- (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
- (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- (transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
noun
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- One who or that which guts.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (British) A drainage channel.
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- a tool for gutting fish
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
verb
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
- provide with gutters
- flow in small streams
- wear or cut gutters into
- burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
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adv
noun
- (cricket, historical) A delivery by lob bowling (no longer legal).
- A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
- A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
- (slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
- (Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.
- A seat post whose height can be adjusted while riding.
- (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
- (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
- (botany) The young bulb of a tulip, not of flowering size.
- One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
- (cricket, historical) A bowler who makes such deliveries.
- (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
- (tennis, informal) A drop shot.
- pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time
noun
- (countable, bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang, derogatory) A prostitute.
- A wild turkey of Meleagris gallopavo.
- A domesticated bird of Meleagris gallopavo domesticus.
- (countable, medicine, slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
- (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)).
- (countable, US, slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
- (countable, US, slang) A failure.
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
- flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
- an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
noun
verb
noun
- (cricket) A ball bowled.
- The item which has been conveyed.
- (baseball) A thrown pitch.
- The act of conveying something.
- (medicine) The administration of a drug.
- (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
- (soccer) A cross or pass
- The manner of speaking or singing.
- (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (baseball) A pitching motion.
- recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
- the act of delivering a child
- the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- the event of giving birth
- your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
verb
- (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
- (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 12).
- (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- (ambitransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
- (transitive or intransitive, soccer) To score (especially a penalty kick).
- (intransitive) To become converted.
- (intransitive, marketing) To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- (ambitransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- (transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- (American football) To score extra points following a touchdown.
- cause to adopt a new or different faith
- change the nature, purpose, or function of something
- change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change
- change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
- change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone
- make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
noun
- Anyone who has converted from being one thing to being another.
- (Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby
- A person who has converted to a religion.
- A person who is now in favour of something that they previously opposed or disliked.
- a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief
verb
- (slang, bowling, intransitive) To switch to using a stronger bowling ball.
- (intransitive, MTE, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, of a drill) To produce a lip of debris around the drill hole.
- (transitive) To crush or form into a ball shape.
- (transitive) To form melted metals into balls or lumps to roll them out of a furnace for further use.
- (intransitive) To hunch over and pull in one's arms and legs.
- (intransitive) To become ball-shaped.
- (skiing, of skis) To become covered in damp snow.
- (ambitransitive) To coil up into a ball.
- (basketball, intransitive) To play basketball, especially playing well.
- (transitive, slang) To ruin or botch.
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
noun
- (sports) The action of bowling a ball.
- The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
- The round hollow part of anything.
- (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
- (sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
- A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
- The quantity of burnable content to be consumed in a pipe or bong.
- (geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
- A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
- (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
- (cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
- Part of a pipe, bong, or other smoking implement that holds the material to be burned.
- As much as is held by a bowl.
- (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
- the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling)
- a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling
- a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco
- a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
- the quantity contained in a bowl
- a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids
- a concave shape with an open top
- a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods
- a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
verb
- engage in the sport of bowling
- To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
- (intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
- To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
- (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
- (transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
- roll (a ball)
- hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end
verb
- (sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
- (manufacturing) To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
- To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
noun
verb
- (cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.
- To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.
- (sports) To have a goal or point scored against
- To admit or agree to be true; to acknowledge
- To yield or make concession.
- To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant
- be willing to concede
- acknowledge defeat
- give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- admit (to a wrongdoing)
verb
- Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
- (intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
- (transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- (by extension) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
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