Usually means: Round object used in games.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word ball:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ball, ball: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -ball, ball, ball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ball, ball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Ball, ball: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ball, ball: Wordnik
  7. ball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ball, ball: Wiktionary
  9. -ball, ball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ball: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ball: Dictionary.com
  13. ball (1), ball (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ball: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. B.A.L.L, BALL, Ball (American football), Ball (Gaelic football), Ball (Game & Watch), Ball (Gridiron football), Ball (Iron Butterfly album), Ball (Widespread Panic album), Ball (anatomy), Ball (association football), Ball (bearing), Ball (dance), Ball (dance party), Ball (disambiguation), Ball (foot), Ball (football), Ball (gridiron football), Ball (mathematics), Ball (rhythmic gymnastics), Ball (song), Ball (surname), Ball, The Ball (play), The Ball (video game), The Ball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ball: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ball: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ball: Rhymezone
  19. Ball (m), ball: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ball: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Ball: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. ball: Free Dictionary
  23. ball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Ball, ball: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Ball: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. ball: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ball-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Ball: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ball: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ball (mathematics), ball: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ball (anatomy), ball: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BALL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. ball: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ball: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Ball: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. ball: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball, ball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ball: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. Ball: 1960's Slang
  5. ball, ball [offensive]: ESL Slang page
  6. the ball: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. ball: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Ball: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See balled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
noun:  A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
noun:  (mathematics) Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
noun:  (mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
noun:  (ballistics, firearms) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
noun:  A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Such bullets collectively.
noun:  A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
noun:  (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
noun:  The globe; the earthly sphere.
noun:  (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 but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
noun:  (uncountable) Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
noun:  (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
noun:  (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
noun:  (cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
noun:  (soccer, countable) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
noun:  (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
noun:  (in the plural) Nonsense.
noun:  (in the plural) Courage.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
noun:  (slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars.
verb:  (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
verb:  (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
verb:  (transitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
verb:  (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
verb:  (university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.)
verb:  (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
verb:  (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
verb:  (transitive) Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
noun:  A formal dance.
noun:  (informal) A very enjoyable time.
noun:  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.
noun:  An English surname.
noun:  A town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
noun:  A hamlet in Egloshayle parish, on the eastern outskirts of Wadebridge, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0073).

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