ball vs dance

ball

verb
  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.) 

  • To form or wind into a ball. 

  • To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls. 

  • To punish by affixing a ball and chain. 

  • To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. 

  • To play basketball. 

  • To be hip or cool. 

noun
  • Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively. 

  • A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. 

  • A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • A very enjoyable time. 

  • The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point. 

  • An opportunity to launch the pinball into play. 

  • The globe; the earthly sphere. 

  • A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate. 

  • A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone. 

  • The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes. 

  • Courage. 

  • A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus. 

  • A formal dance. 

  • The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point. 

  • A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over. 

  • In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere. 

  • A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller. 

  • A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body. 

  • An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game 

  • A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin. 

  • One thousand US dollars. 

  • A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape. 

intj
  • An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled. 

dance

verb
  • To make love or have sex. 

  • To make a repetitive movement in order to communicate to other worker honey bees. 

  • To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about. 

  • To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music. 

  • To kick and convulse from the effects of being hanged. 

  • To leap or move lightly and rapidly. 

  • To perform the steps to. 

noun
  • A sequence of rhythmic steps or movements usually performed to music, for pleasure or as a form of social interaction. 

  • A genre of modern music characterised by sampled beats, repetitive rhythms and few lyrics. 

  • A piece of music with a particular dance rhythm. 

  • The art, profession, and study of dancing. 

  • A normally horizontal stripe called a fess that has been modified to zig-zag across the center of a coat of arms from dexter to sinister. 

  • The death throes of a hanged person. 

  • A social gathering where dancing is the main activity. 

  • A battle of wits, especially one commonly fought between two rivals. 

  • A repetitive movement used in communication between worker honey bees. 

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