The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
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.
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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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.
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.
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.
One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
A háček.
The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
A quantity of money.
The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
A wedge tornado.
A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
To support or secure using a wedge.
To force or drive with a wedge.
Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
To cleave with a wedge.
To shape into a wedge.
To force into a narrow gap.
To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.