Ball vs Cup - What's the difference?
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A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
# A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
# (label) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, etc.
## A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
# A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body.
# (label) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
# The globe; the earthly sphere.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
#* 1717 , (Alexander Pope), ""
# (label) The set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point; specifically, the homologue of the disk in a Euclidean space of any number of dimensions.
# The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point; the analogue of the disk in a Euclidean space.
# An object, generally spherical, used for playing games.
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
#* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 2, author=Aled Williams, work=BBC Sport Wales
, title= (label) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
# Any simple game involving a ball.
# (label) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
# (label) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
# (label) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
# (label) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
#* {{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 29, author=Chris Whyatt, work=BBC
, title= A testicle.
# Nonsense.
# 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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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.
(label) To form or wind into a ball.
(label) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
To have sexual intercourse with.
(label) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
To be hip or cool.
(label) 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.
A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces, 1/16 of a US gallon, or 236.5882365 ml.
A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
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, title= A contest for which a cup is awarded.
(golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
(US) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia. (for UK usage see box)
One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast, used as a measurement of size.
(mathematics) The symbol denoting union and similar operations (confer cap).
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
(ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping'' the thrower; ''or those three players.
A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction (suction cup).
Anything shaped like a cup.
* Shenstone
(medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.
* Bible, Matthew xxvi. 39
To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
To hold something in cupped hands.
(obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
* Shakespeare
(transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
(engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
As nouns the difference between ball and cup
is that ball is while cup is cup.As a verb cup is
to not attend a course, a class without permission of the teacher or cup can be to temporarily or permanently cease to provide (electricity or water supply) or cup can be to switch off (a breaker or fuse).ball
English
(wikipedia ball)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Move round the dark terrestrial ball .
- Thus, if eternal Justice rules the ball , / Thus shall your wives, and thus your children fall;
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
Swansea 2-0 Stoke, passage=Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.}}
Chelsea 1-0 Bolton, passage=After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes. }}
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Synonyms
* sphere * globe * (testicle) See * (courage) chutzpah, guts, nerveDerived terms
(solid or hollow sphere) {{der3, ball and chain , ball and socket , ball-barrow , ball bearing/ball-bearing , ball boy/ballboyball-boy , ball-cartridge , ballclay , ballcock , ball-flower , ball-game , ball-girl , ball lightning , ball machine , ball mill , ball of fire , ball of the foot , ball of the thumb , ballpark , ball-player , ballpoint , ball-proof , ball race , ball up , bandy-ball , baseball , basketball , beachball/beach ball , best-ball , billiard ball , blackball , blowball , blueball , brandy-ball , broomball , buckyball , butterball , button-ball , cannonball , coalball , cornball , cricket ball , croquet ball , crystal ball , cue ball , dust-ball , eight ball/eight-ball , eyeball , fastball , fire-ball , fishball , football , four ball , freeball , furball , fuzz-ball , game ball , get the ball rolling , goalball , golf ball , goofball , greaseball , hair-ball , half-ball , hand-ball , hardball , heel-ball , highball , holding the ball , jump ball , keep the ball rolling , kickball , korfball , matzo ball , meatball , medicine ball , , mothball , netball , no ball , object ball , oddball , on the ball , paintball , patball , pinball , ping-pong ball , pithball , play ball , puffball , punchball , push-ball , racquetball , rollerball , root-ball , rugby ball , scuzzball , silver ball , skittle-ball , sleazeball , slimeball , smoke-ball , snooker ball , snowball , soccer ball , softball , speedball , spot the ball , stink ball , stoolball , table-tennis ball , tea ball , tennis ball , tchoukball , the ball is in your court , through ball , time-ball , too many balls in the air , trackball, trackerball , trap-ball , volleyball , washball}} (testicle) {{der3, ball-breaker , ball-breaking , ball-buster , ball-busting , balls-aching , balls up (verb) , balls-up (noun) , ballsy , have someone by the balls , screwball}}Verb
(en verb)- to ball cotton
- The horse balls'''; the snow '''balls .
Synonyms
* (vulgar) bonk, fuck, lay, screw, shag (British)Interjection
(en interjection)- 2007: A good tackle (and some bad ones) will bring a cry of "Ball!" from the crowd – a plea for a holding the ball free kick. — AFL Sydney Swans Rules Zone [http://www.afl.com.au/FanZone/Rules/tabid/7892/Default.aspx]
Etymology 2
(m).Synonyms
* (very enjoyable time) blast, whale of a timeDerived terms
{{der3, ball-dress , ballgown , ballroom , have a ball , hunt ball , masked ball , open the ball}}cup
English
(wikipedia cup)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.
- the cup of an acorn
- The cowslip's golden cup no more I see.
- O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
Derived terms
* bra cup * coffee cup * cupcake * Cup Final * cuppa * cup size * egg cup, eggcup * teacup * world cupCoordinate terms
* mug * pannikinVerb
- Cup your hands and I'll pour some rice into them.
- He cupped the ball carefully in his hands.
- Cup us, till the world go round.
- to cup the end of a screw