pool ball
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2.7
- noun
- /puːl bɔːl/
:
bola de billar
- After the break, the pool balls scattered across the table, each waiting for its turn.
- crack of pool balls
- rack of pool balls
Again, this works because the pool balls have identical masses.
- Again, this works because the pool balls have identical masses.
- Imagine you've got a pool ball rolling along a pool table at a constant speed.
Examples
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The room would fall silent, and Sneed would sit alone at the end of the bar, the only sounds the clink of glasses and the click of pool balls.
Fiction book (1995) -
Behind me, I heard a pool ball smack on the floor and roll away.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's like banking a pool ball.
Fiction book (1995) -
Again, this works because the pool balls have identical masses.
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You hit a pool ball, and it starts to carom off the sides of the table
Fiction book (1990) -
"On that terrazzo floor, you could hear every bounce of the pool ball," Fischer said.
Blog text (20) -
The clicking noises I had heard before, I now realized, were from the pool balls hitting each other as they shot out on the green surfaces.
Fiction book (1990) -
He hears low echoing laughter through the club, and the sound of the cue ball breaking and sending pool balls spinning around the table.
Fiction book (2001) -
Pool balls' clacking clatter burst over the dusk of the Three Jacks Bar and Lounge as Darryl entered.
Fiction book (1997) -
The player skillfully aimed at the pool ball before making a perfect shot.
Synonyms
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1.0
A round object used in games like football or tennis
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2.9
A hard round ball used to play billiards on a table
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a ball used in the game of pool' is directly and compositionally derived from 'pool' (the cue sport) + 'ball' (a round play object). This noun-noun compound follows common, productive compounding patterns found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Pool ball shows a clear picture: a round, numbered ball sitting on the green table used in the game called pool, ready to be hit into a pocket. That's why pool ball means 'a ball used in the game of pool'.