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Basketball vs Laceless - What's the difference?

basketball | laceless |

As a noun basketball

is a sport in which two opposing teams of five players strive to put a ball through a hoop.

As an adjective laceless is

without laces.

basketball

English

(wikipedia basketball)

Noun

  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * (sport) hoops (US slang)

    Derived terms

    * basketball player

    Related terms

    * basket

    laceless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without laces.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • *:He suffered, poor man, at seeing her so badly dressed, with laceless boots, and the arm-holes of her pinafore torn down to the hips; for the charwoman took no care of her.