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Definition: Ball Game |
Ball GameNoun1. A field game played with a ball (especially baseball);. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Ball GameSynonym: ballgame (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ball Game |
| English words defined with "ball game": American football, association football ♦ ball, ballgame, baseball, baseball game, bocce ball, bocci ball, boccie ball, bowl ♦ catch, Catstick, cricket, croquet ♦ goal ♦ handball ♦ jack, jacks, jackstones, jai alai ♦ knucklebones ♦ lacrosse, lawn tennis ♦ netball, Nineholes ♦ pall-mall, pelota, Ping-Pong, Polo, pushball ♦ racquetball, Rolly-pooly, roulette, roulette wheel, rounders ♦ Scrub game, skittle ball, soccer, softball, softball game, squash, squash rackets, squash racquets, Statuary marble ♦ table tennis, tap-off, tee off, tennis, tetherball, tip-off, Trapball ♦ volley, volleyball, volleyball game ♦ water polo, wheel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ball game": black-rot della vite ♦ KENO WRITER ♦ marciume nero, marciume nero degli acini ♦ Nurr and Spell ♦ PLUVIUS, Pong. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And tell the cook this is low-grade dog food. I've had better food at the ball game, you know? (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis) My old man took me to ball game once when I was a kid. I think we saw the Mets and the Cubs. (Barney Miller; writing credit: Danny Arnold) Take a good look at 'em, Raymond, look at 'em, and while you're looking, listen. This is me, Marco, talking. 52 red queens and me are telling you you know what we're telling you? It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They're smashed as of now because we say so, because we say they are to be smashed. We're busting up the joint, we're tearing out all the wires. We're busting it up so good all the queen's horses and all the queen's men will never put old Raymond back together again. You don't work any more! That's an order. Anybody invites you to a game of solitaire, you tell 'em sorry, buster, the ball game is over. (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod) This is a whole different ball game. A much bigger deal. (Erin Brockovich; writing credit: Susannah Grant) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) The Ball Game (1932) How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game (1906) Spanish Ball Game (1898) The Ball Game (1898) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Health | A person dreaming about a ball game, for example, may run headlong into furniture or blindly strike someone sleeping nearby while trying to catch a ball in the dream. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Pamela Peeke | Well, what if that same criminal lawyer, who is also now mentoring to women, and now all of a sudden, you see yourself, and that's a whole different ball game. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "ball game": it's a whole new ball game. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
take me out to the ball game | 175 |
dragon ball game | 58 |
pin ball game | 43 |
ball game paint | 40 |
lyrics take me out to the ball game | 37 |
ball game jazz | 21 |
blaster ball game | 19 |
ball game jezz | 18 |
mayan ball game | 16 |
ball game wiffle | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ball game"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | لعبة الكرة. (various references) | |
Czech | baseballový zápas, situace (conditions, setup, situation, state of affairs), míèová hra (lacrosse). (various references) | |
Dutch | balspel (ballgame), handbal. (various references) | |
Esperanto | manpilkludo. (various references) | |
Finnish | pallopeli. (various references) | |
French | jeu de balle. (various references) | |
German | Ballspiel (ballgame). (various references) | |
Hungarian | labdajáték (rounders). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 球技 (any ball game), 球技 (any ball game). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きゅうぎ (any ball game, billiards, old friendship, traditional ceremony). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allbay amegay.(various references) | |
Russian | бейсбол (baseball). (various references) | |
Spanish | partido de béisbol. (various references) | |
Swedish | bollspel. (various references) | |
Turkish | beysbol (baseball), vaziyet (factual situation, pass, posture, set, set up, stance, state of affairs), top oyunu (ball), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), durum (attitude, case, circumstance, condition, conditions, conjuncture, context, estate, event, fact, fettle, footing, instance, lay, lie, occasion, pass, plight, position, posture, repair, score, set, set up, shape, showing, situation, situs, stance, stand, state, state of affairs, status, trim, way). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ballgame. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-l-l-m" | |
-2 letters: agleam, ambage, begall, gamble. | |
-3 letters: abeam, algae, algal, amble, ameba, bagel, belga, blame, gable, galea, gamba, gambe, gleam, gleba, label, legal, llama. | |
-4 letters: able, agma, alae, alba, alga, alma, alme, baal, bale, ball, balm, beam, bell, bema, blae, blam, egal, gala, gale, gall, gama, gamb, game, lama, lamb, lame, leal, mabe, mage, male, mall, meal, mell. | |
-5 letters: aal, aba, aga, age, ala, alb, ale, all, ama, baa, bag, bal, bam, beg, bel, ell, elm, gab, gae, gal, gam, gel, gem, lab, lag, lam, lea, leg, mae, mag, meg, mel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-g-l-l-m" | |
+1 letter: ballgames. | |
+3 letters: megaloblast. | |
+4 letters: megaloblasts. | |
+5 letters: megaloblastic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 6C      47 61 6D 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000111 01100001 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l l   G a m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 006C      0047 0061 006D 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36677878241677971 |
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