Tennis vs Racket - What's the difference?
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(label) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
(label) A match in this sport.
* 1918 , (Violet Hunt), The Last Ditch (page 95)
(obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
* (Shakespeare)
* (1800-1859)
(dated) To play tennis.
To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
(label) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
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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.}}
(label) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
* Hewyt
A loud noise.
A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
(dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
As nouns the difference between tennis and racket
is that tennis is a sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets while racket is a racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.As verbs the difference between tennis and racket
is that tennis is to play tennis while racket is to strike with, or as if with, a racket.tennis
Noun
(en-noun)George Goodchild
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis , were familiar to all London.
Derived terms
* football tennis * lawn tennis * real tennis * tennis ball * tennis court * tennis player * tennis racket * tennis racquetSee also
* table tennis or ping pongVerb
- (Spenser)
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----racket
English
Alternative forms
* (sporting implement) racquetEtymology 1
From (etyl) raketNoun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
Synonyms
* (implement) bat, paddle, racquetVerb
(en verb)- Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
See also
*Etymology 2
Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal termNoun
(en noun)- Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket .
- With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
- What's all this racket ?
- They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.