ball vs nut

ball

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

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leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 have sexual intercourse with. 

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

  • To play basketball. 

  • To be hip or cool. 

nut

noun
  • The tumbler of a gunlock. 

  • Monthly expense to keep a venture running. 

  • Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. 

  • A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place. 

  • An extreme enthusiast. 

  • The head. 

  • A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft. 

  • On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height. 

  • Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen. 

  • Such a fruit that is indehiscent. 

  • A testicle. 

  • En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use. 

  • A crazy person. 

  • Semen, ejaculate. 

  • The best possible hand of a certain type, for instance: "nut straight", "nut flush", and "nut full house". Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”). 

  • The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs. 

  • A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.) 

  • A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost. 

verb
  • To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt. 

  • To gather nuts. 

  • To hit in the testicles. 

  • To orgasm; to ejaculate. 

  • To defeat thoroughly. 

intj
  • No. 

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