Synonyms of the word

ball

• n. A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
• n. (sports) The use of a round or ellipsoidal object.
• n. (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
• n. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used…
• n. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
• v. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
• v. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather…
• v. (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
• v. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
• interj. (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This…
• n. A formal dance.
• n. (informal) A very enjoyable time.

actress

• n. A female who performs on the stage or in films.
• n. (now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).

agglomeration

• n. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
• n. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
• n. (geography) An extended city area comprising the built-up area of a central city and any suburbs linked…
• n. (geology) a mass of large volcanic fragments bonded under heat.

ballock

• n. A testicle.

baseball

• n. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so…
• n. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
• n. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

bollock

• n. (Britain, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.
• v. (Britain, transitive, vulgar, slang) To reprimand severely and grossly.

chunk

• n. A part of something that has been separated.
• n. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.
• n. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media);…
• n. (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
• v. (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
• v. (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual chunks of manageable size.
• v. (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.

clod

• n. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
• n. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
• n. A stupid person; a dolt.
• n. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
• v. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
• v. (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
• v. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

clump

• n. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
• n. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
• n. A dull thud.
• n. The compressed clay of coal strata.
• n. A small group of trees or plants.
• v. (transitive) To form clusters or lumps.
• v. (transitive) To gather into thick groups.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.

comedienne

• n. (dated) A female comedian.

dance

• n. A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social…
• n. A social gathering where dancing is the main activity.
• n. (heraldry) A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center…
• n. A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics.
• n. (uncountable) The art, profession, and study of dancing.
• n. A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm.
• v. (intransitive) To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music.
• v. (intransitive) To leap or move lightly and rapidly.
• v. (transitive) To perform the steps to.
• v. (transitive) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about.

delivery

• n. The act of conveying something.
• n. The item which has been conveyed.
• n. The act of giving birth.
• n. (baseball) A pitching motion.
• n. (baseball) A thrown pitch.
• n. The manner of speaking.
• n. (medicine) The administration of a drug.
• n. (cricket) A ball bowled.
• n. (curling) The process of throwing a stone.
• n. (genetics) Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.

egg

• n. (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects…
• n. (countable, uncountable) The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food.
• n. (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
• n. Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
• n. A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
• n. (mildly pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry,…
• n. (New Zealand, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
• n. (informal) A person, fellow.
• v. To throw eggs at.
• v. To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
• v. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently…
• v. (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite.

formal

• adj. Being in accord with established forms.
• adj. Official.
• adj. Relating to the form or structure of something.
• adj. Relating to formation.
• adj. Ceremonial or traditional.
• adj. Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
• adj. Organized; well-structured and planned.
• adj. (mathematics) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to…
• n. Formalin.
• n. An evening gown.
• n. An event with a formal dress code.

glob

• n. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
• n. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
• n. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular…
• v. To stick in globs or lumps.
• v. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.

globe

• n. Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
• n. The planet Earth.
• n. A spherical model of Earth or any planet.
• n. (dated or Australia, South Africa) A light bulb.
• n. A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
• n. (slang, chiefly plural) A woman's breasts..
• v. To become spherical.

gonad

• n. (anatomy) A sex organ that produces gametes; specifically, a testicle or ovary.
• n. (slang, chiefly in the plural) The testicles.

lump

• n. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
• n. A group, set, or unit.
• n. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
• n. A dull or lazy person.
• n. (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
• n. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
• v. To treat as a single unit; to group together.

nut

• n. A hard-shelled seed.
• n. A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined…
• n. (slang) A crazy person.
• n. (slang) The head.
• n. (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
• n. (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
• n. (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of…
• n. (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead…
• n. (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
• n. (dated, Britain, slang) An extravagantly fashionable young man.
• n. (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle.
• n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate.
• n. (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
• n. (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface…
• n. (poker, only in attributive use) The best possible hand of a certain type, especially: "nut flush" and…
• n. The tumbler of a gunlock.
• n. (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
• v. (Britain, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
• v. (slang) To ejaculate.
• interj. (Scotland, colloquial) No.

orb

• n. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
• n. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and…
• n. A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body;…
• n. (rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
• n. (poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical.
• n. (poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel.
• n. (rare) A sphere of action.
• n. A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power.
• n. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.
• n. (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
• v. (poetic) to form into an orb or circle.
• v. (poetic, transitive) to encircle; to surround; to enclose.
• v. (poetic, intransitive) to become round like an orb.
• n. (architecture) A blank window or panel.

orchis

• n. Any plant of the genus Orchis; an orchid.

pellet

• n. A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
• n. A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
• n. Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls. Serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible…
• n. (heraldry) A roundel sable (black circular spot; also called ogress).
• n. One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
• v. To form into pellets.
• v. To strike with pellets.

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

plaything

• n. A thing or person intended for playing with.

roll

• v. (ergative) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward…
• v. (intransitive) To turn over and over.
• v. To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
• v. (transitive) To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing…
• v. (transitive) To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
• v. (intransitive) To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
• v. (ergative) To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
• v. (ergative) To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with…
• v. To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
• v. (intransitive) To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
• v. (ergative) To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To leave or begin a journey.
• v. (chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) To compete, especially with vigor.
• v. To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
• v. (geometry) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one…
• v. To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
• v. (US, slang) To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
• v. (dice games, transitive, intransitive) To throw dice.
• v. (dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
• v. (role-playing games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine…
• v. (computing) To generate a random number.
• v. (nautical, of a vessel) To rotate on its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare…
• v. (transitive) To beat up; to attack and cause physical damage to.
• v. (transitive, slang) To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To betray secrets.
• v. (slang) To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
• v. (intransitive, of a camera) To film.
• v. (transitive, soccer) To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
• v. To have a rolling aspect.
• v. (figuratively, intranstive) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
• v. To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) to move and cause an effect on someone.
• v. (intransitive) To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
• n. The act of rolling, or state of being rolled.
• n. A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
• n. That which rolls; a roller.
• n. A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
• n. (nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, on…
• n. (nautical) The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, on its fore-and-aft axis.
• n. A heavy, reverberatory sound.
• n. The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
• n. (obsolete) Part; office; duty; rôle.
• n. A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
• n. The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
• n. The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
• n. A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.

shot

• adj. (colloquial) Worn out or broken.
• adj. (of material, especially silk) Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an…
• adj. Tired, weary.
• adj. Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
• n. The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
• n. (sports) The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
• n. (athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
• n. (uncountable) Small metal balls used as ammunition.
• n. (uncountable, military) Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
• n. (referring to one's skill at firing a gun) Someone who shoots (a gun) regularly.
• n. An opportunity or attempt.
• n. A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
• n. (slang, sports, US) A punch or other physical blow.
• n. A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle,…
• n. A single serving of espresso.
• n. (photography, film) A single unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent;…
• n. A vaccination or injection.
• n. (US, Canada, baseball, informal) A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is…
• n. (US federal prison system) Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
• n. (fisheries) A cast of one or more nets.
• n. (fisheries) A place or spot for setting nets.
• n. (fisheries) A single draft or catch of fish made.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of shoot.
• v. (transitive) To load (a gun) with shot.
• n. A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
• interj. (colloquial, South Africa) Thank you.

sphere

• n. (mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure…
• n. A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
• n. (astronomy, now rare) The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow…
• n. (historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to…
• n. (mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
• n. (figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
• n. (geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology)…
• n. (logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which…
• v. (transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
• v. (transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.

structure

• n. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• n. The underlying shape of a solid.
• n. The overall form or organization of something.
• n. A set of rules defining behaviour.
• n. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• n. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend…
• n. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• n. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
• v. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

testicle

• n. The male sex and endocrine gland, found in some types of animals, that produces sperm and male sex hormones,…

testis

• n. (anatomy) A testicle of a vertebrate.
• n. (biology) An analogous gland in invertebrates such as the hydra.

toy

• n. Something to play with, especially as intended for use by a child.
• n. A thing of little importance or value; a trifle.
• n. A simple, light piece of music, written especially for the virginal.
• n. (obsolete) Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.
• n. (obsolete) A vague fancy, a ridiculous idea or notion; a whim.
• n. (slang, derogatory) An inferior graffiti artist.
• n. (obsolete) An old story; a silly tale.
• n. (Scotland, archaic) A headdress of linen or wool that hangs down over the shoulders, worn by old women…
• v. (intransitive) To play (with).
• v. (intransitive) To ponder or consider.
• v. (slang, transitive) To stimulate with a sex toy.

twine

• n. A twist; a convolution.
• n. A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various…
• n. The act of twining or winding round.
• n. Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
• v. (transitive) To weave together.
• v. (transitive) To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
• v. (transitive) To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
• v. (intransitive) To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
• v. (intransitive) To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
• v. (intransitive) To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
• v. (obsolete) To turn round; to revolve.
• v. (obsolete) To change the direction of.
• v. (obsolete) To mingle; to mix.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

wrap

• v. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
• v. (figuratively) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show,…
• v. (lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line.
• v. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
• n. A garment that one wraps around the body to keep oneself warm.
• n. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
• n. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
• n. A wraparound mortgage.