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start ball rolling

/bawl/US // bɔl //UK // (bɔːl) //

开球,开球了,开球的时候,开场白

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball.
    • : a round or roundish body, of various sizes and materials, either hollow or solid, for use in games, as baseball, football, tennis, or golf.
    • : a game played with a ball, especially baseball: The boys are out playing ball.
    • : Baseball. a pitched ball, not swung at by the batter, that does not pass over home plate between the batter's shoulders and knees.
    • : Military. a solid, usually spherical projectile for a cannon, rifle, pistol, etc., as distinguished from a shell.projectiles, especially bullets, collectively.
    • : any part of a thing, especially of the human body, that is rounded or protuberant: the ball of the thumb.
    • : a round mass of food, as of chopped meat, dough, or candy.
    • : Slang: Vulgar.Usually balls. a testicle.
    • : balls, Slang: Vulgar. boldness; courage; brashness: She had the balls to ignore her critics and stand up for what was right.nonsense.
    • : bolus.
    • : Horticulture. a compact mass of soil covering the roots of an uprooted tree or other plant.
    • : Literary. a planetary or celestial body, especially the earth.
    • : Mathematics. the set of points whose distance from the zero element is less than, or less than or equal to, a specified number.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make into a ball: The children were balling up snow to make a snowman.
    • : to wind into balls: to ball cotton.
    • : Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to form or gather into a ball: When the spun sugar balls, the candy has cooked sufficiently.
    • : Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse.
  1. 1
    • : ball up, Slang. to make or become utterly confused; muddle: The records had been all balled up by inefficient file clerks.

Phrases

  • ball and chain
  • ball of fire
  • ball up
  • behind the eight ball
  • break one's balls
  • by the balls
  • carry the ball
  • crystal ball
  • drop the ball
  • eyeball to eyeball
  • get the ball rolling
  • have a ball
  • have one's eye on the ball
  • have someone by the balls
  • on the ball
  • play ball
  • put in mothballs
  • snowball's chance in hell
  • that's how the ball bounces
  • whole ball of wax

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inintroduce
Synonyms
announce宣布,公布,通报,布告offer提供,提议,优惠,提价open开放,开放的,开放式,开放式的propose建议,提议,提出,提出建议recommend建议,推荐,推荐理由,荐submit提交,递交,呈交,呈报suggest建议,暗示,提出建议,提议acquaint相识,相识的人,相识的,认识advance进展,晋级,进展情况,预付款air空气,气,空,空气中broach拉环,拉钩,拉丝,锦囊familiarize熟悉,熟悉情况,熟知,熟悉了解harbinger先兆,预兆,先声,先锋herald预报,预示,预示着,预言家moot无意义,无意义的,毫无意义,没有实际意义originate起源,发源地,发起,起源于precede前导,前,先于,前面preface序言,前言,序文,序论usher引导员,传达员,传达者,招待员ventilate换气,通风,通气,抽风bring out带出,带出了bring up抚养,养育子女,养育孩子,抚养费come out with出台,提出了do the honors尽地主之谊,尽心尽力,尽地主之谊吧,承蒙关照fix up整理,修整,修理,修理好get things rolling开工,运转起来,开工了,着手进行get together聚会,聚在一起,聚会时,相聚give introduction介绍,介绍一下,简介,作介绍kick off开球,踢球,踢掉,开球了knock down打倒,击倒,撞倒,推倒lead into引入,导致,变成,导致进入lead off牵头负责,牵头人,牵头负责的工作,牵头负责的open up开放,开放的pave the way铺平道路,铺路,铺设道路,铺垫put forward提出来的,提出了,提出的,提出set forth陈述,阐述了,阐述,阐明了spring with春天与,春天有了,春天有,春天里有
as intackle
as incause
Synonyms
begin开始,开始了,始于,始create创建,创造,创作,创立generate产生,生成,产生的,产生了induce诱发,诱导,诱发了,诱惑lead to导致,导致了,导致的结果是,引发make使,让,使得,使成为precipitate沉淀物,沉淀,淀积物,淀produce生产,制作,产生,产量provoke挑动,挑衅,挑起,撩拨brainstorm集思广益,脑力激荡,脑力激荡法,脑力风暴breed育种,繁殖,培育,饲养compel强制,强迫,强制要求,迫使effect效果,影响,作用,效应elicit引出,引发,引起,激发engender产生,创作,培养,创造evoke唤起,诱发,唤醒,勾起hatch孵化,孵化器,舱口,填充物incite煽动,鼓动,挑动,挑起introduce介绍,介绍一下,引入,推出kickoff开球,开幕式,开幕,启动kindle点燃,点读,点阅,点读机let让,任,放,告知motivate激励,促使,激励的,励志muster召集人,集合,聚会,召集occasion机会,场合,时机,偶尔open开放,开放的,开放式,开放式的originate起源,发源地,发起,起源于revert回复,返还,恢复,归还secure安全,安全的,稳固的be at the bottom of处在,处在底部,处在底部的,在底部break in闯入,破门而入,闯入了break the ice破冰,打破僵局,打破坚冰,破冰之旅bring to pass落实,落实到人,实现,兑现come out with出台,提出了cook up编造,烹调,烹饪,编造谎言dream up造梦,梦寐以求,梦想成真,梦见fire up兴起,燃烧,开火,兴建get things rolling开工,运转起来,开工了,着手进行give rise to引起,引起了,产生,引发make up编造,化装,构成,组成result in致使,导致,造成,结果是sow the seeds播种,撒播种子,播撒种子,播种的时候start the ball rolling开球,开弓没有回头箭,开球了,开工think up想出,想出了,想出办法,想办法work up编制,做好工作,做好,工作
as inestablish
Antonyms
as infound
Antonyms

Examples

  • A ball on a football field will have more possible future positions than a ball traveling along rails, for example.

  • When he wasn’t putting the ball in the bucket himself, Dončić found time to snag seven rebounds, dish out nine dimes and snag three steals.

  • Microbes huddled in the heart of balls of Deinococcus bacteria as thin as five sheets of paper have survived on the exterior of the International Space Station for three years, researchers report August 26 in Frontiers in Microbiology.

  • Minor League Baseball plans to soon begin using TrackMan to call balls and strikes for its games.

  • In this area, small planetary objects hang out while warming up and transitioning from outer solar system ice balls to inner solar system comets with their long tails.

  • One of the kids had a ball in his hand, and Cuomo took it and tossed it back and forth to an eight year old.

  • Instead of going for the hole, I hit the ball directly into the water.

  • There is only sand, a white ball, and a flag indicating the hole.

  • If the ball gets in the hole, the screen shifts to reveal the next hole.

  • When the game starts, there is only sand, a white ball, a flag indicating hole 1, and a “0” at the top of the screen.

  • It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.

  • A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.

  • He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.

  • On the night of June the 11th a red-hot cannon-ball set fire to one of the barracks which was used as a hospital.

  • At two o'clock, the general of the Carnival opens the public ball with the Mugnaia.