line-out
racquets
throw-in
catch
tip off
team sport
spud
volleyball
position
bucketball
pass
stoopball
tackle
power play
interception
trigon
singles
keepy uppy
hold-up play
pick-up game
call someone's number
lineout
balk
multiplex
turn
skittleball
playing field
handball
drop-ball
road trip
doubles
pancake
road bowling
ruck
athletic game
ball game
piggy in the middle
down
pick and roll
line up
butts up
setter
monkey in the middle
football
box out
team game
center
fast break
volley
underworld
ground ball
bowls
stickball
pushball
playfield
string
forced throw
playball
gaga ball
American football
outdoor game
territory
American football game
paddock
conference
loft
loofball
jai alai
bocce
groundshare
bank shot
uppies and downies
ball hog
dummy
netball
tee up
first touch
kickabout
roofball
half
volley ball
kickback
speel
dodgeball
homestand
volleyball game
wallball
maul
sportsfield
nutmeg
goal
down
line-out
racquets
throw-in
catch
team sport
volleyball
position
bucketball
stoopball
tackle
power play
interception
trigon
singles
keepy uppy
hold-up play
pick-up game
lineout
balk
multiplex
turn
skittleball
playing field
handball
drop-ball
road trip
doubles
pancake
road bowling
athletic game
ball game
piggy in the middle
pick and roll
butts up
setter
ruck
monkey in the middle
football
team game
center
fast break
volley
underworld
ground ball
bowls
stickball
pushball
playfield
forced throw
playball
gaga ball
American football
outdoor game
territory
American football game
paddock
conference
loofball
jai alai
bocce
groundshare
bank shot
uppies and downies
ball hog
dummy
netball
first touch
kickabout
roofball
half
volley ball
kickback
speel
dodgeball
homestand
volleyball game
pass
wallball
maul
sportsfield
nutmeg
goal
tip off
pass
call someone's number
turn
ruck
line up
box out
string
loft
tee up
noun
- A set-piece where the ball is thrown back into play
- A throw of the ball back into play by the boundary umpire. The umpire faces away from the players and throws it in over his or her shoulder (so as to clearly not favour either side by where exactly it's thrown).
- An extra item added free of charge; a product that is thrown in with another.
- the start time of a Gaelic football match, comparable to kick off in other games.
noun
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
name
verb
- To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
- To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
- To dig up weeds with a spud.
noun
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- A testicle.
- A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- A hole in a sock.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- A potato.
noun
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
verb
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
noun
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- A block and tackle.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- Clothing.
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
verb
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
noun
- A passing play where the ball is received by the opposing team.
- An act of intercepting something, the state of being intercepted, or a thing that is intercepted.
- A pass that is intercepted by an opposing player.
- precipitation that does not reach the soil, but is instead intercepted by the leaves, branches of plants and the forest floor.
- An aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
noun
- An old ball game played by three people standing in a triangular formation.
- A trine; an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.
- A triangle.
- An ancient triangular harp of Oriental origin which had four strings and was often used for banquet music. Also called sabbeka, sackbut, sambuca.
- A division consisting of three signs.
- The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part.
noun
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- throwing motion where more than one ball is thrown with one hand at the same time.
- A building or a place where several activities occur in multiple units concurrently or different times.
- a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium
verb
- To convert (a cinema business) into a large complex, or multiplex.
- To combine several signals into one.
- To make a multiplex throw.
- To interleave several activities.
adj
noun
- An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A single loop of a coil.
- Character; personality; nature.
- A short skit, act, or routine.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement.
- A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
- A pass behind or through an object.
- A walk to and fro.
- A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
- The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices.
- A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice.
- A change of direction or orientation.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- The time required to complete a project.
verb
- Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
- To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
- To magically or divinely attack undead.
- To be nauseated; said of the stomach.
- To change the color of the leaves in the autumn.
- To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- To reach a certain age.
- To sicken; to nauseate.
- To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt.
- To complete.
- To become (begin to be).
- To change fundamentally; to metamorphose.
- To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc.
- To make (money); turn a profit.
- Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To navigate through a book or other printed material.
- To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.
- To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle.
- Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- To change one's direction of travel.
- Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
- To become giddy; said of the head or brain.
- To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
- To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- To hinge; to depend.
noun
- A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
- A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
- Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- Anything very thin and flat.
- A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
verb
verb
- To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
- To become folded.
- To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
- To crease or fold.
noun
- A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
- The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
- Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
- A small heifer.
- An argument or fight.
- A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
- A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
noun
- Any game played with a ball.
- A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.
- Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
- A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.
- A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.
adv
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
noun
- The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- A long-haired breed of gundog.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- A typesetter.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
verb
noun
- A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
- American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
- rugby league.
- The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
- rugby union.
- Australian rules football.
- The ball used in any game called "football".
- Canadian football: a game played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
- An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
verb
noun
- The person who holds the ball at the beginning of each play.
- A player who can go all over the court, except the shooting circles.
- The middle portion of something; the part well away from the edges.
- One of the two conical steel pins in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves.
- The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates.
- The subgroup (respectively, subring), denoted Z(G), of those elements of a given group (respectively, ring) G that commute with every element of G.
- The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- The point on a line that is midway between the ends.
- The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- A topic that is particularly important in a given context, the element in a subject of cognition, volition or discussion that is perceived as decisive.
- A place, especially a building or complex, set aside for some specified function or activity.
- The ensemble of moderate or centrist political parties.
- A conical recess or indentation in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
- A pass played into the centre of the pitch.
- The point in the interior of any figure of any number of dimensions that has as its coordinates the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of all points on the perimeter of the figure (or of all points in the interior for a center of volume).
- The venue in which the head of government in a centralized state is situated.
- The forward that generally plays between the left wing and right wing and usually takes the faceoffs.
- The player, generally the tallest, who plays closest to the basket.
- One of the backs operating in a central area of the pitch, either the inside centre or outside centre.
- A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position until the work becomes self-supporting.
adj
verb
- To give (something) a central basis.
- To concentrate on (something), to pay close attention to (something).
- To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
- To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
- To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes.
verb
- To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- To put strings on (something).
- To put (items) on a string.
noun
- A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- A stringed instrument.
- The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- A series of items or events.
- The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- A thread
- The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- Such a structure considered as a substance.
- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- Cannabis or marijuana.
- The points made in a game of billiards.
- A stringcourse.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
noun
- The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
- An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
- A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
- A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
- One of three of Australia's federated entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.
- A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
- An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
- A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
- A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
- One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
noun
- A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
- A toad.
- An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- A frog.
- A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
- A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
verb
noun
- A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
- A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.
- A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
- An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue, such as a new product, market trend or government regulation, with a range of speakers.
- The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
- A constituent tournament of a sports league in a given season.
- A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
- A formal event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops, posters or by other means.
verb
verb
- To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
- To propel high into the air.
- To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
- To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
- To furnish with a loft space.
noun
noun
- A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- A stupid person.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
- A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- An unused parameter or value.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
verb
- To feint.
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
adv
noun
- One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
- abbreviated form for half marathon.
- Half of a standard measure, chiefly: (Britain) half a pint of beer or cider.
- One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
- The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
- Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
- A half sibling.
adj
- Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
- Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
- Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
- Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
prep
adv
- Partially; imperfectly.
- In some part approximating a half.
- In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
- Practically, nearly.
intj
noun
- A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
- A backward kick, a retrograde movement of an extremity.
- recoil; a sudden backward motion, usually in the direction of the operator.
- An accident wherein the upper tip of the bar of a running chainsaw contacts a relatively immovable object, forcing the bar upwards and pressing the running chain more firmly against the object, causing the saw to be hurled upwards and backwards into the operator's face.
- A dangerous buildup of gas pressure at the wellhead.
- In contract bridge, an ace asking convention initiated by the first step above four of the agreed trump suit.
- An accident where an object being cut by a rotating blade or disk, such as a circular saw, is caught by the blade and thrown outward.
- The board separating one bowling lane from another at the pit end.
- A relaxed party.
- A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; a kind of bribe.
noun
- The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
- A grey-brown colour.
- The powdered seed, ready for use.
- An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
- A whole nutmeg seed.
- A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
verb
noun
- In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
- A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
- The act of placing the object into the goal.
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
verb
English words for 'a set piece where a player throws the ball into play, and both teams can contest for possession.'
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