baseball
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- noun
- /ˈbeɪsˌbɔl/
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pelota de béisbol
- Pratt and Kenny wanted me to meet them in the park before our baseball practice begins.
- hit a baseball
- baseballs travel
You might smash the baseball, the bat might get broken.
- You might smash the baseball, the bat might get broken.
- They're not balls like a baseball or a soccer ball.
- It is a suitcase, it is a baseball, it is a guitar.
Examples
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Jan, you need a baseball field, not a tennis court.
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Now suppose you spin the baseball like this.
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Now throw the baseball at the bull cut out.
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Jim and John are playing catch with a baseball at the ballpark.
Academic text (1992) -
The manager of the team hands him a baseball while forty thousand fans stand cheering at their seats.
Fiction book (1993) -
Gus wants us to hit some baseballs with him.
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Marti looks down and is startled to find a baseball resting against her foot.
Fiction book (1992) -
Alexis felt the tension, too, because she hung back, tossing her baseball in the air.
Fiction book (1990) -
Mom, where's my baseball?
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The coach gave each player a new baseball for the upcoming game.
Compounds
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A small card with a baseball player's photo and game numbers that people collect
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The part of the year when people play baseball games from spring to early autumn
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A square area on a baseball field with the bases and home plate where players run
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A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together for competitions
A museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York that honors the history and best players of baseball
A museum in Cooperstown, New York, that honors the greatest baseball players and people who helped the sport
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Baseball comes from joining two simple words: base ('a place to run to') and ball ('a round object'). The word originally named the ball used in the game with bases, which is why a baseball today is the small, hard leather-covered ball players throw and hit.