start the ball rolling
开球,开弓没有回头箭,开球了,开工
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Definitions
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- : 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.
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- : 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.
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- : to form or gather into a ball: When the spun sugar balls, the candy has cooked sufficiently.
- : Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse.
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- : 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
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.