Boll vs. Ball

The seed-bearing capsule of certain plants, especially cotton and flax.

A spherical object or entity

The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.

A spherical or almost spherical body

A protuberance or excrescence growing on the trunks of some trees, a burl.

Any of various movable and round or oblong objects used in various athletic activities and games.

(Scotland) An old dry measure equal to six bushels.

Such an object moving, thrown, hit, or kicked in a particular manner

To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

A game, especially baseball or basketball, played with such an object.

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

A pitched baseball that does not pass through the strike zone and is not swung at by the batter.

A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.

A solid spherical or pointed projectile, such as one shot from a cannon.

To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

Projectiles of this kind considered as a group.

The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant

A rounded part or protuberance, especially of the body

German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985)

A testicle.

Balls Courage, especially when reckless.

Balls Great presumptuousness.

A formal gathering for social dancing.

(Informal) An extremely enjoyable time or experience

To form into a ball.

Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.

To become formed into a ball.

Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse.

A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

(mathematics) Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.

(mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.

(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.

(mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.

A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.

A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.

Such bullets collectively.

A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.

(anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.

The globe; the earthly sphere.

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

Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.

A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.

An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.

A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.

A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.

A testicle.

(in the plural) Nonsense.

(in the plural) Courage.

A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.

A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.

 One thousand US dollars.

A formal dance.

(informal) A very enjoyable time.

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.

(transitive) To form or wind into a ball.

(metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

To have sexual intercourse with.

(ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

To be hip or cool.

(university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (blackball)

To play basketball.

(transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.

(Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.

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

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

A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The globe or earth.

A pitched ball, not struck at by the batter, which fails to pass over the home plate at a height not greater than the batter's shoulder nor less than his knee (i.e. it is outside the strike zone). If the pitcher pitches four balls before three strikes are called, the batter advances to first base, and the action of pitching four balls is called a walk.

A testicle; usually used in the plural.

Courage; nerve.

A social assembly for the purpose of dancing; - usually applied to an occasion lavish or formal.

A very enjoyable time; as, we had a ball at the wedding.

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.

To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.

Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games;

A solid ball shot by a musket;

An object with a spherical shape;

The people assembled at a lavish formal dance;

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens;

A spherical object used as a plaything;

United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)

A compact mass;

A lavish formal dance

A more or less rounded anatomical body or mass; ball of the human foot or ball at the base of the thumb;

A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run;

A pitch that is not in the strike zone;

Form into a ball by winding or rolling;