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Baseball vs Forehand - What's the difference?

baseball | forehand |

As nouns the difference between baseball and forehand

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 forehand is (racket sports) a stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.

baseball

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
  • A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
  • Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * *

    See also

    * rounders * softball * wiffleball * ----

    forehand

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (racket sports) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke
  • (disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger
  • All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
  • (Johnson)
  • The chief or most important part.
  • (Shakespeare)
  • Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And, but for ceremony, such a wretch / Had the forehand and vantage of a king.
  • The hand towards the front of the board
  • Synonyms

    * (kind of throw in sports) (l)

    Antonyms

    * (l)