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What (who) is Ball - definition

VERSATILE SET OF C++ CLASSES FOR MOLECULAR MODELLING

BALLView

ball

ROUND OBJECT USED IN SPORTS OR FOR PLAYING

Ball (sports); Ball shape

I

n.

game

1) to play ball

round object used in a sport

2) to bat; bounce; catch; drop; fumble; hit; kick; throw a ball

3) a ball bounces

4) the ball is dead ('the ball does not bounce')

5) a cue; medicine ball

6) (BE) a punching ball (AE has punching bag)

7) a baseball; basketball; football; golf; tennis ball; volleyball

round mass

8) a cotton ball

9) in a ball (to curl up in a ball)

glass object used in fortune telling

10) a crystal ball

misc.

11) to start the ball rolling ('to begin an activity'); (colloq.) on the ball ('efficient'); (AE) to play ball with ('to cooperate with')

II

n.

formal dance

1) to have, organize a ball

2) a costume; fancy-dress; inaugural; masked ball

3) at a ball (to dance at a ball)

4) (misc.) (esp. AE; colloq.) to have a ball ('to enjoy oneself')

ball

ROUND OBJECT USED IN SPORTS OR FOR PLAYING

Ball (sports); Ball shape

(balls, balling, balled)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

A ball is a round object that is used in games such as tennis, baseball, football, basketball, and cricket.

...a golf ball.

...a tennis ball.

N-COUNT

2.

A ball is something or an amount of something that has a round shape.

Thomas screwed the letter up into a ball...

They heard a loud explosion and saw a ball of fire go up.

N-COUNT: oft N of n

3.

When you ball something or when it balls, it becomes round.

He picked up the sheets of paper, and balled them tightly in his fists...

His hands balled into fists...

VERB: V n adv/prep, V adv/prep

4.

The ball of your foot or the ball of your thumb is the rounded part where your toes join your foot or where your thumb joins your hand.

N-COUNT: usu the N of n

5.

A ball is a large formal social event at which people dance.

N-COUNT

6.

A man's balls are his testicles. (INFORMAL, RUDE)

N-COUNT: usu pl

7.

see also balls

8.

If you say that the ball is in someone's court, you mean that it is his or her responsibility to take the next action or decision in a situation.

The ball's now in your court-you have to decide what you're going to do.

PHRASE: V inflects

9.

If you get the ball rolling, set the ball rolling, or start the ball rolling, you start something happening.

He will go to the Middle East next week to get the ball rolling again on peace talks...

PHRASE: V inflects

10.

If someone is on the ball, they are very alert and aware of what is happening.

She really is on the ball; she's bought houses at auctions so she knows what she's doing.

PHRASE: v-link PHR

11.

If someone refuses to play ball, they are unwilling to do what someone wants them to do. (INFORMAL)

The association has threatened to withdraw its support if the banks and building societies refuse to play ball.

PHRASE: V inflects

Ball

ROUND OBJECT USED IN SPORTS OR FOR PLAYING

Ball (sports); Ball shape

·noun The globe or earth.

II. Ball ·noun A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.

III. Ball ·vt To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.

IV. Ball ·vt To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

V. Ball ·noun A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.

VI. Ball ·noun Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

VII. Ball ·noun A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. ·see Baseball, and Football.

VIII. Ball ·noun A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, ·etc.

IX. Ball ·noun A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.

X. Ball ·vi To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.

XI. Ball ·noun A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock;

- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

XII. Ball ·add. ·noun A pitched ball, not struck at by the batsman, which fails to pass over the home base at a height not greater than the batsman's shoulder nor less than his knee.

XIII. Ball ·noun A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.

XIV. Ball ·noun Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball;

- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

Wikipedia

BALL

BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) is a C++ class framework and set of algorithms and data structures for molecular modelling and computational structural bioinformatics, a Python interface to this library, and a graphical user interface to BALL, the molecule viewer BALLView.

BALL has evolved from a commercial product into free-of-charge open-source software licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). BALLView is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) license.

BALL and BALLView have been ported to the operating systems Linux, macOS, Solaris, and Windows.

The molecule viewer BALLView, also developed by the BALL project team, is a C++ application of BALL using Qt, and OpenGL with the real-time ray tracer RTFact as render back-ends. For both, BALLView offers three-dimensional and stereoscopic visualizing in several different modes, and applying directly the algorithms of the BALL library via its graphical user interface.

The BALL project is developed and maintained by groups at Saarland University, Mainz University, and University of Tübingen. Both the library and the viewer are used for education and research. BALL packages have been made available in the Debian project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BALL

Examples of use of Ball

1. They can‘t control ball, can‘t tackle ball, can‘t pass the ball properly to their follow people, can‘t hold ball.

2. I‘m kicking ball after ball off the line, silently screaming.

3. "We like to move the ball quickly, work the ball and play a high tempo, zipping the ball around.

4. EYE ON THE BALL: Adam Orfinger watches a ball zoom by during a T–ball game in Ormond Beach, Fla.

5. Later Tuesday, the Presidential Inaugural Committee will host 10 official inaugural balls: _Neighborhood Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. _Obama Home States (Illinois and Hawaii) Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. _Biden Home States (Pennsylvania and Delaware) Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. _Midwest Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. _Mid–Atlantic Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. _Western Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. _Commander in Chief‘s Ball at the National Building Museum. _Southern Inaugural Ball at the National Guard Armory. _Eastern Inaugural Ball at Union Station. _Youth Inaugural Ball at the Washington Hilton.