tennis racket
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- noun
- /ˈtɛnɪs ˈrækɪt/
:
raqueta de tenis
- I bought a new tennis racket to improve my game this season.
- swinging a tennis racket
- tennis racket and ball
- get a tennis racket
He'd like a football, a basketball, a tennis racket and ball.
- He'd like a football, a basketball, a tennis racket and ball.
- When I opened the gift, what was inside was a wooden press to keep a tennis racket from warping.
- It's used used in tennis rackets, baseball, softball bats, golf clubs.
- And I basically get beaten up badly with a tennis racket and a baseball cap.
- It's also used in jewellery, prosthetics, tennis rackets, bicycle frames, surgical tools and mobile phones.
Examples
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I used to keep my tennis racket behind the filing cabinet.
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Sebastian enters carrying his tennis racket.
Fiction book (1999) -
Can I get you a tennis racket?
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Can I see that tennis racket?
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Those are my tennis rackets.
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Get this guy a tennis racquet.
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None of the students reported any experience using the plastic tennis rackets prior to the study.
Academic text (1990) -
What's a tennis racket doing in the kitchen?
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Hey, where's my tennis racket?
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Timothy carries a tennis racket.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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A handled frame with tight strings used to hit a ball in tennis
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a racket used for tennis' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tennis' (the sport) with 'racket' (the handheld implement). This noun–noun compound follows a regular, compositional pattern found across languages and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Tennis racket simply names the tool used to hit the ball in tennis. Long ago players used a wooden frame with strings or a flat paddle to strike the ball, so the word racket came to mean that hitting tool, and that's why tennis racket means 'the tool used to hit the ball in tennis'.