Strike vs Ball - What's the difference?
strike | ball |
To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
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To have a sharp or sudden effect.
#(lb) To hit.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:He at Philippi kept / His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck / The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
#(lb) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
#*(Bible), (w) xii.7:
#*:They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.
#*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
#*:Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
#(lb) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:Strike now, or else the iron cools.
#(lb) To manufacture, as by stamping.
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# To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded.
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#(lb) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
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#(lb) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
#*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
#*:A deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
#(lb) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:Waving wide her myrtle wand, / She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
#(lb) To cause to ignite by friction.
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(lb) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
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To have a sharp or severe effect.
#(lb) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
#*(Bible), Proverbs xvii.26:
#*:To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
#(lb) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
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#*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
#(lb) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
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# To impinge upon.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,
#(lb) To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
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#(lb) To impress, seem or appear (to).
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#*1895 , , (The Time Machine) , Ch.X:
#*:I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
#(lb) To create an impression.
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#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 #(lb) To score a goal.
#*{{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Marc Vesty
, work=BBC, title= # To steal money.
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# To take forcibly or fraudulently.
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#To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
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#*(Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
#*:Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:They please as beauties, here as wonders strike .
#To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
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# To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.
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To touch; to act by appulse.
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colours vanish.
To take down, especially in the following contexts.
#(lb) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
##(lb) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
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##*(w) (1643-1715)
##*:The English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas.
#To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
#*1851 , (Herman Melville), (w) , :
#*:“Strike' the tent there!”—was the next order. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to ' strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
(lb) To set off on a walk or trip.
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, title= (lb) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
*(Bible), (w) vii.23:
*:till a dart strike through his liver
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.
(lb) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into .
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(lb) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
To make and ratify.
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To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
(lb) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
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To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
*(Bible), 2 (w) v.11:
*:Behold, I thought, He willstrike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
(lb) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:well struck in years
To balance (a ledger or account).
(baseball) a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught
(bowling) the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
a work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest
a blow or application of physical force against something
(finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
:* 1882': The sum is also used for the quarter, and the '''strike for the bushel. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, ''A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 207.
(cricket) the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
:* The batsmen have crossed, and Dhoni now has the strike .
the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen
(geology) the compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
(obsolete) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
* Sir Walter Scott
An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
(ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
(obsolete) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmail.
The discovery of a source of something.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A strike plate.
(Webster 1913)
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.
As nouns the difference between strike and ball
is that strike is (baseball) a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught while ball is .As a verb strike
is to delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.strike
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Verb
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
Stoke 0-2 Fulham, passage=Defender Chris Baird struck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
Usage notes
Custom influences which participle is used in set phrases and specific contexts, but in general, the past participle "struck" is more common when speaking of intransitive actions (e.g. He'd struck it rich'', or ''He's struck out on his own'', etc.), while "stricken" is more commonly used for transitive actions, especially constructions where the subject is the object of an implied action (e.g. ''The Court has stricken the statement from the record'', or ''The city was stricken with disease , etc.)Derived terms
* striking distanceSee also
* strike a balance * strike down * strike gold * strike out baseball and slangNoun
(en noun)- Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike .
Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
Antonyms
* (work stoppage) industrial peace; lockoutDerived terms
* checkerboard strike * hunger strike * general strike * rent strike * sit-down strike * striker * strike out * wildcat strikeball
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]