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Definition: Golf Ball |
Golf BallNoun1. A small hard ball used in playing golf; dimpled to reduce wind resistance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Golf Ball |
| English words defined with "golf ball": bunker ♦ club ♦ drive, driver, driving ♦ golf shot, golf stroke, golf tee, golfclub ♦ pitching wedge, putt, putting ♦ swing ♦ tee, tee off ♦ unplayable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "golf ball": ASSEMBLER, LIQUID CENTER ♦ cover treater ♦ GOLF-BALL TRIMMER, GOLF-BALL-COVER TREATER ♦ IBM 2741, INSPECTOR, GOLF BALL ♦ RUBBER-THREAD SPOOLER ♦ shank the ball ♦ thread spooler. (references) |
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Screenplays | She can suck a golf ball through twenty feet of garden hose (Beverly Hills Cop II; writing credit: Eddie Murphy; Robert D. Wachs) The head has been smoothed down to the size of a golf ball. What do we do (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Clever | There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Golf ball sized hail. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | Man about to drive a golf ball. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woman swinging at golf ball close to hole, Washington, D.C., area. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man swinging at golf ball up hill, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tuckerman swinging at golf ball, Washington, D.C., area. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Miss Elsie Patterson, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, ready to hit golf ball, Washington, D.C., area(?). Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The cysts may become quite big, occasionally over 50 cc in volume (about the size of a golf ball). (references) | |
Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball. The gallbladder can develop just one large stone, hundreds of tiny stones, or almost any combination. (references) | ||
Business | U.S. products supply 89 percent of the golf club and golf ball market and 37 percent of the golf bag market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "golf ball": golf ball printer. 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
golf ball | 9,642 | top flite golf ball | 28 |
used golf ball | 367 | golf ball compression | 27 |
logo golf ball | 311 | colored golf ball | 26 |
golf ball review | 254 | top flight golf ball | 23 |
titleist golf ball | 234 | glow in the dark golf ball | 22 |
discount golf ball | 155 | novelty golf ball | 22 |
nike golf ball | 137 | floating golf ball | 21 |
golf ball display | 131 | golf ball mail box | 21 |
strata golf ball | 93 | recycled golf ball | 19 |
golf ball marker | 73 | taylor made golf ball | 19 |
golf ball display case | 68 | customized golf ball | 17 |
golf ball retriever | 66 | spin golf ball | 17 |
precept golf ball | 66 | ping golf ball | 16 |
callaway golf ball | 56 | exploding golf ball | 15 |
golf ball dimples | 50 | magnetic golf ball marker | 15 |
pinnacle golf ball | 45 | golf ball stamp | 14 |
longest golf ball | 43 | golf ball dispenser | 14 |
golf ball washer | 37 | condor golf ball | 14 |
golf ball test | 33 | glow golf ball | 13 |
dunlop golf ball | 33 | calloway golf ball | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "golf ball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Czech | golfový míèek. (various references) | |
Danish | golfkugle. (various references) | |
Dutch | golfbal. (various references) | |
French | balle de golf. (various references) | |
German | Golfball. (various references) | |
Greek | σφαίρα του γκολφ, μπαλάκι του γκολφ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | golflabda. (various references) | |
Italian | palla da golf. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olfgay allbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bola de golfe. (various references) | |
Spanish | bola de golf. (various references) | |
Swedish | golfboll. (various references) | |
Turkish | golf topu, topkafa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-g-l-l-l-o" | |
-2 letters: global. | |
-4 letters: ball, bola, boll, fall, flab, flag, flog, foal, gall, gaol, glob, goal, golf, lall, loaf, loll, olla. | |
-5 letters: abo, ago, alb, all, bag, bal, boa, bog, fag, fob, fog, gab, gal, goa, gob, lab, lag, lob, log, oaf. | |
| 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. | |
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