appeal
call
go up for
how's that
benefit of the doubt
Welsh baseball
snick
nick
send in
straight
walk
bat for both sides
handled the ball
sledging
ask the question
bat for the other side
cut
baseball swing
swing
plumb
off
take guard
soft hands
whiff
drop
on deck
strike
off side
hit and run
inside edge
innings
safety squeeze
corridor of uncertainty
strike zone
fielder
play ball
headhunt
fieldsman
on
block
york
outside edge
tone
sacrifice bunt
switch-hitter
leftfield
sound out
British baseball
left field
low pitch
lot
bat
fan
nightwatchman
right field
punch out
low frequency
defensive
rightfield
life
edge
square leg umpire
blockhole
drill
high pitch
high frequency
return
bat away
batting coach
pitcher
take sign
try-scorer
stand up
mound
fielding average
walker
slip
golden sombrero
soft hand
inning
batter
batsman
pinch hitter
crowd catch
frame
chin music
basebally
top edge
foul out
ground rule
field
coachspeak
straight
plumb
off
on
defensive
basebally
appeal
call
benefit of the doubt
Welsh baseball
snick
nick
sledging
cut
baseball swing
swing
soft hands
strike
off side
hit and run
inside edge
innings
safety squeeze
corridor of uncertainty
strike zone
fielder
fieldsman
block
outside edge
tone
sacrifice bunt
switch-hitter
leftfield
British baseball
left field
low pitch
lot
nightwatchman
right field
low frequency
rightfield
life
edge
square leg umpire
blockhole
high pitch
high frequency
return
batting coach
pitcher
take sign
try-scorer
mound
fielding average
walker
slip
golden sombrero
soft hand
inning
batter
batsman
pinch hitter
crowd catch
frame
chin music
ground rule
coachspeak
appeal
call
go up for
send in
walk
bat for both sides
ask the question
bat for the other side
take guard
whiff
drop
play ball
headhunt
york
sound out
bat
fan
punch out
drill
bat away
stand up
top edge
foul out
field
verb
- Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
- To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
- To be attractive.
- To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.
- To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
- Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
- To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
- To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.
- Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
- Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
noun
- The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
- At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
- A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.
- An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
- The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
- A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.
- A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
- An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
- A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.
- A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
- A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
- A power to attract or interest.
verb
- (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.
- To require, demand.
- To scold.
- To rouse from sleep; to awaken.
- To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.
- Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.
- (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).
- To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
- To request, summon, or beckon.
- To cause to be verbally subjected to.
- To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- To come to pass; to afflict.
- To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)
- To predict.
- To contact by telephone.
- To pay a (social) visit (often used with "on", "round", or "at"; used by salespeople with "again" to invite customers to come again).
- To name or refer to.
- To cry or shout.
- To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.
- To stop at a station or port.
- To claim the existence of some malfeasance; to denounce as.
- To declare (an effort or project) to be a failure.
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To formally recognise a death: especially to announce and record the time, place and fact of a person’s death.
- To declare in advance.
- To request that one's band play (a particular tune).
- To lay claim to an object or role which is up for grabs.
- To tell in advance which shot one is attempting.
- To demand repayment of a loan.
- To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
- To make a decision as a referee or umpire.
noun
- The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)
- The act of calling to the other batsman.
- A short visit, usually for social purposes.
- A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
- A cry or shout.
- A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.
- A lawyer who was called to the bar (became licensed as a lawyer) in a specified year.
- The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
- The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
- An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
- An instance of calling someone on the telephone.
- Need; necessity.
- A decision or judgement.
- A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
- A telephone conversation; a phone call.
- The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
- A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
- A meeting with a client for paid sex; hookup; job.
- A beckoning or summoning.
- A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
- A pipe or other instrument to call birds or animals by imitating their note or cry. A game call.
- A work shift which requires one to be available when requested, i.e. on call.
- The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
noun
- The principle employed by umpires in cases of uncertainty concerning a batsman possibly being out, in which the decision must be in the batsman's favour.
- A trust that something will turn out or happen as hoped for or expected despite concerns.
- A favorable judgement given in the absence of full evidence.
noun
- A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
- The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
- A police station or prison.
verb
- To make a cut at the side of the face.
- To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
- To steal.
- To arrest.
- To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
adj
- Describing the bat as held so as not to incline to either side; on, or near a line running between the two wickets.
- Direct, undeviating.
- Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party.
- Occurring between people of opposite sex (sometimes, but not always, specifically between heterosexual people).
- Strait; narrow.
- Conventional; mainstream; socially acceptable.
- Thorough; utter; unqualified.
- Of spirits: undiluted, unmixed; neat.
- Concerning the property allowing the parallel transport of vectors along a course that keeps tangent vectors remain as such throughout that course (a course which is straight, a straight curve, is a geodesic).
- Not plus size; thin.
- In proper order; as it should be.
- Heterosexual.
- Serious rather than comedic.
- Containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a single party and no others.
- Related to conventional sexual intercourse.
- Free from dishonesty; honest, law-abiding.
- Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
- Perfectly horizontal or vertical; not diagonal or oblique.
- In a row, in unbroken sequence; consecutive.
- Not using alcohol, drugs, etc.
- Describing the sets in a match of which the winner did not lose a single set.
- Direct in communication; unevasive, straightforward.
verb
adv
- Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
- Continuously; without interruption or pause.
- Of speech or information, without prevarication or holding back; directly; straightforwardly; plainly.
- Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
noun
- A chiropractor who relies solely on spinal adjustment, with no other treatments.
- Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
- Five cards in sequence.
- A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana.
- A heterosexual.
- A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
verb
- To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- To leave, resign.
- To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
- To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- To travel (a distance) by walking.
- To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
- To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
noun
- A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- A distance walked.
- A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
- Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- A trip made by walking.
- An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- A person's conduct or course in life.
- An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
noun
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a share of the profits
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- a step on some scale
- a wound made by cutting
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
adj
- with parts removed
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- mixed with water
adj
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
verb
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- make an incision or separation
- discharge from a group
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- make out and issue
- cut and assemble the components of
- intentionally fail to attend
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- give the appearance or impression of
- move (one's fist)
- pass directly and often in haste
- pass through or across
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- stop filming
- make a recording of
- record a performance on (a medium)
- create by duplicating data
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- perform or carry out
- function as a cutting instrument
- allow incision or separation
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- reap or harvest
- fell by sawing; hew
- penetrate injuriously
- refuse to acknowledge
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- have a reducing effect
- cease, stop
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- have grow through the gums
- grow through the gums
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
noun
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
verb
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- influence decisively
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- have a certain musical rhythm
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
adj
- Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
- Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
verb
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of, especially to plumb the depths of.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
- To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To fall or sink like a plummet.
- To position vertically above or below.
adv
noun
adj
- In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
- Inoperative, disabled.
- On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).
- Inappropriate; untoward.
- Circumstanced.
- Cancelled; not happening.
- Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent.
- Presently unavailable.
- Started on the way.
- Rancid, rotten, gone bad.
- Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
- The off front wheel came loose.
- Not fitted; not being worn.
- Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.
- Far; off to the side.
- Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
verb
prep
- Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.
- Removed or subtracted from.
- Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.
- Out of the possession of.
- Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.
- Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.
- No longer wanting or taking.
- Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon.
noun
adv
- Offstage.
- Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.
- Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
- So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.
- In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.
verb
- Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm; hence, to assassinate or kill (someone).
- To smell; to sniff.
- To fail spectacularly.
- In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
noun
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- A flag used as a signal.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- The name of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- A slight attack or touch.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
adj
intj
verb
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
noun
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- a gentle blow
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a conspicuous success
verb
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- stop work in order to press demands
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- attain
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- find unexpectedly
- produce by ignition or a blow
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cause to experience suddenly
- drive something violently into a location
- occupy or take on
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- smooth with a strickle
- pierce with force
- hook by a pull on the line
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
noun
- A play in baseball where the baserunners leave their base before the batter hits the ball, assuming that the batter will in fact hit the ball and this will give them an advantage.
- The military technique of attacking one place and then quickly moving to another before defenders can react.
- The crime of causing an accident, as with a motor vehicle, and leaving without acknowledging responsibility.
verb
noun
- One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.
- The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
- A person's lifespan.
- A comparable period of play in croquet or roque.
adj
- Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- Destined, normally in the context of a challenge being accepted; involved, doomed.
- Acting in character.
- Fitted; covering; being worn.
- Acceptable, appropriate.
- In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
- Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
- Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
- Menstruating.
- Performing according to schedule; taking place.
noun
adv
- Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
- Along, forwards (continuing an action).
- To an operating state.
- In continuation, at length.
- So as to cover or be fitted.
prep
- To the account or detriment of; denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon.
- So as to impact; against.
- Some time during the day of.
- Indicating a means of subsistence.
- Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with.
- Dealing with the subject of; about; concerning.
- In the possession of.
- Inside (a vehicle) for the purpose of travelling.
- Indicating the person experiencing an emotion, cold, thirst, hunger, etc.
- Expressing figurative placement or attachment.
- Supported by (the specified part of itself).
- Having identical domain and codomain.
- At or in (a certain region or location).
- Upon; at the time of (and often because of).
- Under the influence of (a drug).
- Generated by.
- Regularly taking (a drug).
- Positioned at the upper surface of, touching from above.
- Against; in opposition to.
- Indicating dependence or reliance.
- Covering.
- Engaged in or occupied with (an action or activity).
- Paid for by.
- Toward; for; indicating the object of an emotion.
- At the date of.
- Indicating the target of, or thing affected by, an event or action.
- In addition to; besides; indicating multiplication or succession in a series.
- Indicating a means or medium.
- By virtue of; with the pledge of.
- Because of, or due to.
- Near; adjacent to; alongside.
- Having Vⁿ as domain and V as codomain, for some set V and integer n.
- Without.
- Positioned at or resting against the outer surface of; attached to.
- So as to impart force to.
- Serving as a member of.
- At a given time after the start of something; at.
verb
noun
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- A specific pitch.
- The quality of being respectable or admirable.
- The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese.
- The manner in which speech or writing is expressed.
- The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice.
- (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody.
- The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
- a gun
- The shade or quality of a colour.
- The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours.
- The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus.
- (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second.
- Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli.
- The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.).
pron
verb
noun
- Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
- That which happens without human design or forethought.
- One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
- A large quantity or number; a great deal.
- A number of people taken collectively.
- A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
- A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
- A prize in a lottery.
- Allotment; lottery.
- An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
- All members of a set; everything.
- The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
verb
- strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
- wink briefly
- have a turn at bat
- use a bat
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
noun
- nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
- (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
- a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
- the club used in playing cricket
- a club used for hitting a ball in various games
verb
- To rule (by an umpire) that a pitch is a called third strike, often done emphatically.
- To extract data from a computer by the use of a keyboard.
- To repeatedly hit a person.
- To hit a person so that they become unconscious (knocked out).
- To leave a workplace.
- To use a punch to remove a piece of material or to remove a piece already scored.
- To eject from an airplane.
- To leave a workplace by punching a timecard.
- To throw a called third strike.
noun
adj
- Of a bowling or fielding tactic designed to prevent the other side from scoring runs; of a batting tactic designed to prevent being out.
- Intended for defence; protective.
- In a state or posture of defense.
- Performed so as to minimise risk.
- Displaying an inordinate sensitivity to criticism or intrusion; oversensitive; thin-skinned.
- Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack.
- Intended to deter attack.
noun
noun
- A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team.
- A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole).
- An opportunity for existence.
- A worthwhile existence.
- The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.
- The span of time during which an object operates.
- The most lively component or participant.
- A particular phase or period of existence.
- Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it.
- The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
- Animation; spirit; vivacity.
- A biography.
- One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.
- Social life.
- Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
- A particular aspect of existence.
- The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.
- The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc.
- The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.
- Lifeforms, generally or collectively.
- A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age).
- One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball.
- The life insurance industry.
- A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract).
- Existence.
- A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.)
verb
noun
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
verb
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To win by a small margin.
verb
- To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.
- To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool).
- To have sexual intercourse with; to penetrate.
- To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts.
- To repeat an idea frequently in order to encourage someone to remember it.
- To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling.
- To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context.
- To investigate or examine something in more detail or at a different level
- To sow (seeds) by dribbling them along a furrow or in a row.
- To shoot; to kill.
- To hit or kick with a lot of power.
noun
- A light furrow or channel made to put seed into, when sowing.
- A short and highly repeatable sports training exercise designed to hone a particular skill that may be useful in competition.
- A row of seed sown in a furrow.
- The portion of a drilling tool that drives the bit.
- Any of several molluscs, of the genus Urosalpinx, especially the oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea), that drill holes in the shells of other animals.
- An Old World monkey of West Africa, Mandrillus leucophaeus, similar in appearance to the mandrill, but lacking the colorful face.
- A strong, durable cotton fabric with a strong bias (diagonal) in the weave.
- A tool used to remove material so as to create a hole, typically by plunging a rotating cutting bit into a stationary workpiece.
- A style of trap music with gritty, violent lyrics, originating on the South Side of Chicago.
- An agricultural implement for making holes for sowing seed, and sometimes so formed as to contain seeds and drop them into the hole made.
- An activity done as an exercise or practice (especially a military exercise), particularly in preparation for some possible future event or occurrence.
noun
- A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- An answer.
- A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A carriage return character.
- The act of returning.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
verb
- To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- To recur; to come again.
- To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- To come or go back (to a place or person).
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- To report, or bring back and make known.
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- To place or put back something where it had been.
- To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- To say in reply; to respond.
- To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
noun
- the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
- (baseball) the person who does the pitching
- an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
- the quantity contained in a pitcher
- (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
verb
- To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- To bring something up and set it into a standing position.
- To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- To launch, propel upwards
- (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- To last or endure over a period of time.
- To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- to make one's voice heard, to speak up
- To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
noun
- the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
- (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
- a small natural hill
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
verb
noun
- A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- A prostitute, streetwalker.
- A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- A zombie.
- A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- A gressorial bird.
- A forester.
noun
- Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- A fish, the sole.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A slipway.
- A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A slipdress.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- A mistake or error.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- An outside covering or case.
- A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
verb
- To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- To move down; to slide.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
- To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- To err.
- To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
noun
- Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
- A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
- A paste of clay or loam.
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
- A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- A binge; a heavy drinking session.
- The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
- The player now receiving strike; the striker.
- A player of the batting side now on the field.
verb
noun
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- 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 single drawing in a comic strip
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- a structure supporting or containing something
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
verb
noun
- A fastball thrown near the batter's chin, often to set up a subsequent pitch thrown low and outside.
- Rhythmic singing, usually to nonsense syllables, in a style partly inspired by the instruments used to accompany folk dancing in Irish and Scottish traditions.
- A bouncer aimed near the batsman's chin.
verb
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- play as a fielder
- answer adequately or successfully
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
noun
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- a branch of knowledge
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a particular environment or walk of life
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- extensive tract of level open land
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a place where planes take off and land
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