Ball vs Square - 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.
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# (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.
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, 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.}}
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, 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.
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, 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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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.
(geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.
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An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
An open space in a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
* Addison
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A cell in a grid.
(mathematics) The second power of a number, value, term or expression.
(military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
* Shakespeare
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 144:
(slang) A socially conventional person; typically associated with the 1950s
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(British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
(cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
(real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, ie. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though progressively being replaced by square metres in metric countries such as Australia.
(roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
(North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
(academia) A mortarboard
(colloquial, US) A square meal.
A pane of glass.
(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
(archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
* Dryden
(astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
(dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
(lb) .
Shaped like a (the polygon).
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, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
Honest; straightforward.
Fair.
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(senseid)(slang) Socially conventional; boring.
(cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
hearty; vigorous
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.
To resolve.
To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
* Milton
(mathematics) Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a with the same area as.
(soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
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, title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton
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(archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
* Cowper
(obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
* Shakespeare
To take a boxing attitude; often with up'' or ''off .
To form with four sides and four right angles.
To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
(astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
* Creech
(nautical) To place at right angles with the keel.
As nouns the difference between ball and square
is that ball is while square is (geometry) a polygon with four sides of equal length and four angles of 90 degrees; a regular quadrilateral whose angles are all 90 degrees.As an adjective square is
shaped like a (the polygon).As a verb square is
to adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else.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
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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}}square
English
Noun
(en noun)- I took refuge in the square form and exhibited a picture which consisted of nothing more than a black square on a white field.
- There are so many uses for the square , in fact, that a new model will usually come complete with a booklet enumerating its applications. -
The Carpenter's Square
- The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.
- You're not in Wisconsin, Dave. The big story isn't about a cow wandering into the town square .
- You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
- 64 is the square of 8.
- the brave squares of war
- After disastrous attempts to break the Russian squares , during which, Longworth recounts, ‘the best and the bravest of the warriors fell victim to their own rashness’, the Circassians likewise changed their tactics.
- Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square !
- Enter your account number followed by a square .
- An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square , measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
- 2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — (Macquarie Bank) (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 - "The World Squared" , 21 June 2006 [http://www.macquarie.com.au/au/about_macquarie/media_centre/20060621.htm]
- 2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares' of living space plus over 13 '''squares''' of decking area on 3 sides and 17 ' squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estate advertisement for Grindelwald Tasmania [http://www.yourestate.com.au/property_12753.php]
- ''Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
- They of Galatia [were] much more out of square .
- I have not kept my square .
- We live not on the square with such as these.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (polygon) (rare) tetragon * (L-shaped tool) steel square, framing square, carpenter's square * (open space) piazza, plaza * (socially conventional person) see * hash, sharp, (US) pound signDerived terms
* carpenter's square * chi-square * combination square * difference of two squares * four square * framing square * goal square * kid on the square * Latin square * machinist square * magic square * market square * mean square * miter square * on the square * optical square * over square * perfect square * public square * Punnett square * set square * square bashing * squareless * square one * square-pushing * square tab shingle * steel square * T-square * three-square * town square * try square * under square * word squareAdjective
(er)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
- a square corner
- square dealing
- to make or leave the accounts square
- By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say.
- a man of a square frame
Synonyms
* above board, on the level, on the square, on the up and up, straight * (socially conventional) bourgeoisDerived terms
(Terms derived from the adjective "square") * all square * be there or be square * fair and square * square bracket * square centimetre, square centimeter * square circle * square dancing * square deal * square drive * square flipper/squareflipper * square foot * squarehead * square inch * square leg * square knot * square matrix * square meal * square metre, square meter * square mile * square number * square pyramid * square rod * square root * square sail * square shooter * square-shouldered * square-toed * square wave * square yard * squarely * squareness * T-squaredVerb
(squar)- The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared .
- John can square this question up for us.
- These results just don't square .
- I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
- ''to square our actions by the opinions of others
- Square my trial / To my proportioned strength.
- square the circle
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- No works shall find acceptance that square not truly with the Scripture plan.
- Are you such fools / To square for this?
- (Dickens)
- (Spenser)
- to square mason's work
- (Shakespeare)
- the icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales
- to square the yards