What is the difference between baseball and basketball?
baseball | basketball |
A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
* 1797-1798 , (Jane Austen), (Northanger Abbey)
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
(sports, uncountable) A sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.
(basketball, countable) The particular kind of ball used in the sport of basketball.
As nouns the difference between baseball and basketball
is that baseball is a sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins while basketball is a sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.baseball
English
(wikipedia baseball)Noun
(en noun)- It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball , riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.