English words for 'Alternative form of ball-and-socket joint.'
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- a joint that can rotate within a socket
- A joint in which one segment has a rounded end and the next segment has a bowl-shaped end, with the rounded end being fitted into the bowl shape, allowing the first segment to move around an indefinite number of axes which have one common center. Examples include the human shoulder joint and the balljoints of some automotive suspensions.
- a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone
- a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
- a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend
- A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
- (dialectal) To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- attach with a hinge
- (transitive, archaeology) The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- The socket head for a socket wrench.
- (electricity) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
- (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
- receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted
- a bony hollow into which a structure fits
- a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
- (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
- (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- (by extension) A mechanical joint.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- (skiing, snowboarding) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
- A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
- Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
- (shipbuilding) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
- A cut of meat of various kinds.
- a joint of a finger when the fist is closed
- (transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (noun sense 1).
- (transitive, slang) To strike or punch.
- (intransitive, figurative) To yield.
- (snowboarding, skiing) To land on the knuckle (noun sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
- (intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
- (intransitive) To bend the fingers.
- shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground
- press or rub with the knuckles
- a joint made by two arms attached by a pivot; used to apply pressure at the two ends by straightening the joint
- A mechanical linkage of the type of an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure when brought into this position.
- a wrench with a handle onto which sockets of different sizes can be fitted
- A type of wrench (spanner) featuring multiple removable and interchangeable socket heads (sockets), each designed to fit a particular size of bolt head or other fastener, which can be attached by the drive to a ratcheting handle, breaker bar, or other driver.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (Canada, US, Cumbria, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (dialectal) The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- (colloquial, Wales) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- (slang, metonymic) Body; self.
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- A thrust in fencing.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- thick end of the handle
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
- provide with a joint
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- put into words or an expression
- unite by forming a joint or joints
- express or state clearly
- (music, transitive) To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
- (anatomy, intransitive) To form a joint or connect by joints.
- (ambitransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- (transitive) To make clear or effective.
- (transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- (transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- provide with a joint
- fit as if by joints
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together
- a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together
- (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
- Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
- (electricity) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- perform a marriage ceremony
- join together so as to form new genetic combinations
- join the ends of
- join by interweaving strands
- (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
- (software engineering) To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.
- (slang) To unite in marriage.
- (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
- To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
- To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A difficult situation.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
- (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- a round handle
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- any thickened enlargement
- (technology) A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
- (nautical) A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.
- As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
- (technology) A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.
- (games) A thimble or similar object used in thimblerig (“a game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three thimbles or small cups a pea-sized object has been placed after the person operating the game rapidly rearranges them”).
- (sewing) A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.
- a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container
- as much as a thimble will hold
- A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
- An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
- A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
- A circular sled without runners.
- A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
- a disk used in throwing competitions
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- (billiards) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- (historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
- (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- A love triangle.
- A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- (rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
- (US, Canada) A set square.
- (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
- any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
- something approximating the shape of a triangle
- a three-sided polygon
- a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
- form into a ball by winding or rolling
- to live very well
- (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.
- 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
- 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.
- (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
- (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.
- (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.
- the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
- either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
- the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
- (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
- the fruit of a rose plant
- (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- The fruit of a rose.
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
- (wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
- (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- (loosely, often) An individual spherical ball, usually made of steel or other hard material, suitable for use in a ball-based rolling element bearing.
- (mechanical engineering) A bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements, usually consisting of two ballraces (rings).
- bearings containing small metal balls
- the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint
- (anatomy) The bony cup of the hip bone which receives the head of the femur.
- (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.
- (zootomy) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
- (zootomy) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
- (zootomy) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
- A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
- (zootomy) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
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- a joint that can rotate within a socket
- A joint in which one segment has a rounded end and the next segment has a bowl-shaped end, with the rounded end being fitted into the bowl shape, allowing the first segment to move around an indefinite number of axes which have one common center. Examples include the human shoulder joint and the balljoints of some automotive suspensions.
- a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone
- a joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other
- a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend
- A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
- (dialectal) To be in poor health; to be out of sorts.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- attach with a hinge
- (transitive, archaeology) The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
- (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- The socket head for a socket wrench.
- (electricity) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
- (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
- receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted
- a bony hollow into which a structure fits
- a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
- (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
- (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree
- fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn
- (by extension) A mechanical joint.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
- (skiing, snowboarding) The rounded point where a flat changes to a slope on a piste.
- The kneejoint of a quadruped, especially of a calf; formerly, the kneejoint of a human being.
- A contrivance, usually of brass or iron, and furnished with points, worn to protect the hand, to add force to a blow, and to disfigure the person struck; a knuckle duster.
- Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
- (shipbuilding) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom.
- A cut of meat of various kinds.
- a joint of a finger when the fist is closed
- (transitive) To apply pressure, or rub or massage with one's knuckles (noun sense 1).
- (transitive, slang) To strike or punch.
- (intransitive, figurative) To yield.
- (snowboarding, skiing) To land on the knuckle (noun sense 9) of a curve of a slope, after a jump off a ramp that precedes the slope.
- (intransitive) To touch one's forehead as a mark of respect.
- (intransitive) To bend the fingers.
- shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground
- press or rub with the knuckles
- a joint made by two arms attached by a pivot; used to apply pressure at the two ends by straightening the joint
- A mechanical linkage of the type of an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure when brought into this position.
- a wrench with a handle onto which sockets of different sizes can be fitted
- A type of wrench (spanner) featuring multiple removable and interchangeable socket heads (sockets), each designed to fit a particular size of bolt head or other fastener, which can be attached by the drive to a ratcheting handle, breaker bar, or other driver.
- (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping
- (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- (Canada, US, Cumbria, Philippines, slang) The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- (dialectal) The entire ground (range) on which archers' target practice takes place.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- (colloquial, Wales) Synonym of butty (“a friend or buddy”).
- (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- (slang, metonymic) Body; self.
- (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- (US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- A thrust in fencing.
- (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun.
- (slang) A used cigarette.
- the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons)
- thick end of the handle
- a victim of ridicule or pranks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- (transitive, intransitive, eastern Canada, parts of the northeastern US) To cut in line (in front of someone).
- (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
- to strike, thrust or shove against
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- place end to end without overlapping
- joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together
- a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together
- (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
- Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
- (electricity) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- perform a marriage ceremony
- join together so as to form new genetic combinations
- join the ends of
- join by interweaving strands
- (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
- (software engineering) To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.
- (slang) To unite in marriage.
- (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
- To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
- To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- (geography, chiefly Appalachia, Lancashire) A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- (vulgar, slang) The clitoris.
- (slang, US) A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible person; a dick.
- an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger
- a round handle
- a circular rounded projection or protuberance
- any thickened enlargement
- (technology) A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
- (nautical) A metal ring which a cable or rope intended for attaching to other things is looped around as a protection against chafing.
- As much as fills a thimble (sense 1); a thimbleful.
- (technology) A ring- or tube-shaped component such as a ferrule.
- (games) A thimble or similar object used in thimblerig (“a game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three thimbles or small cups a pea-sized object has been placed after the person operating the game rapidly rearranges them”).
- (sewing) A pitted, now usually metal, cup-shaped cap worn on the tip of a finger, which is used in sewing to push the needle through material.
- a small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container
- as much as a thimble will hold
- A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan.
- An object round and gently curved, shaped like a saucer.
- A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships.
- A circular sled without runners.
- A small shallow dish to hold a cup and catch drips.
- a disk used in throwing competitions
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table
- something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- (billiards) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- (historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
- (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- A love triangle.
- A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- (rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
- (US, Canada) A set square.
- (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
- any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
- something approximating the shape of a triangle
- a three-sided polygon
- a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
- the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum
- either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
- the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates
- (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof
- the fruit of a rose plant
- (anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
- The fruit of a rose.
- The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
- (transitive, slang) To inform, to make knowledgeable.
- To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.
- (wrestling) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock").
- To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.
- (chiefly sports) To use one's hips to bump into someone.
- (loosely, often) An individual spherical ball, usually made of steel or other hard material, suitable for use in a ball-based rolling element bearing.
- (mechanical engineering) A bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements, usually consisting of two ballraces (rings).
- bearings containing small metal balls
- the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint
- (anatomy) The bony cup of the hip bone which receives the head of the femur.
- (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.
- (zootomy) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
- (zootomy) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
- (zootomy) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
- A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
- (zootomy) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
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- provide with a joint
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- put into words or an expression
- unite by forming a joint or joints
- express or state clearly
- (music, transitive) To attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
- (anatomy, intransitive) To form a joint or connect by joints.
- (ambitransitive) To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- (transitive) To make clear or effective.
- (transitive) To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- (transitive) To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- provide with a joint
- fit as if by joints
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- The socket head for a socket wrench.
- (electricity) An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
- (anatomy) A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- (computing) One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
- receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted
- a bony hollow into which a structure fits
- a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A difficult situation.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
- form into a ball by winding or rolling
- to live very well
- (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.
- 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
- 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.
- (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
- (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.
- (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.