ball

/bɔːl/

意味: ボール

例文: Fluffin thought the moon was a ball.
　　  フラッフィンは月をボールだと思っていた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: play ball(ボールで遊ぶ), throw a ball(ボールを投げる), catch a ball(ボールをキャッチする)

定義: 丸い形をした物で、スポーツや遊びに使われる。サッカーやバスケットボールなど、いろいろな種類がある。

ballは約9,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
Noun: a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
Noun: an object with a spherical shape
Noun: the people assembled at a lavish formal dance
Noun: one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
Noun: a spherical object used as a plaything
Noun: United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)
Noun: a compact mass
Noun: a lavish dance requiring formal attire
Noun: a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
Noun: the game of baseball
Noun: a pitch that is not in the strike zone
Verb: form into a ball by winding or rolling

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The child threw the ball across the yard.(子供は庭の向こうにボールを投げた。)
She found a red ball under the table.(彼女はテーブルの下で赤いボールを見つけた。)
He kicked the ball into the goal quickly.(彼は素早くボールをゴールに蹴り入れた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve
Noun: the mayor threw out the first ball
Noun: the ball rolled into the corner pocket
Noun: they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball
Noun: a ball of fire
Noun: the ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded
Noun: she kicked him in the balls and got away
Noun: he played with his rubber ball in the bathtub
Noun: a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder
Noun: the ball at the base of the thumb
Noun: he stood on the balls of his feet
Noun: he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him
Verb: ball wool

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Ball, Lucille Ball, ball, ballock, bollock, chunk, clod, clump, egg, formal, glob, globe, lump, musket ball, nut, orb, orchis, testicle, testis

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): agglomeration, baseball, dance, game equipment, gonad, male reproductive gland, pitch, plaything, shot, sphere, structure, wind

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): alveolar bed, apodeme, aster, backboard, balk, ball, balloon, barn dance, bb, beanball, bird shot, blade, bony labyrinth, bowling equipment, bridge, bulb, bunch, calyculus, capsule, carina, cartilaginous structure, cauda, cavity, centromere, change-up, chiasma, cingulum, clue, cockhorse, coil, concha, conglomeration, cornu, corona, costa, counter, crossbar, curve, cytoskeleton, doll, dollhouse, drop, duster, fastball, filament, five-hitter, fold, four-hitter, frisbee, fundus, funiculus, game, germ, gill arch, gill slit, glans, goal, grapeshot, gyrus, hardball, head, hobby, hop, horny structure, horseshoe, hula-hoop, infundibulum, interstice, jack, jack-in-the-box, jumping jack, jungle gym, kaleidoscope, kite, knuckleball, lacrimal apparatus, landmark, layer, lego, lens nucleus, limbus, man, meccano, membranous labyrinth, musket ball, net, neural structure, no-hit game, nucleolus organizer, one-hitter, ovary, overhand pitch, ovotestis, pad, paintball gun, passage, passed ball, pea shooter, perfect game, peristome, pinata, pinball machine, pinwheel, plate, playhouse, plexus, pogo stick, pool table, popgun, professional baseball, quoit, radicle, rattle, rave, receptor, reel, rib, root, rotator cuff, roulette wheel, rounders, sandbox, screwball, seesaw, sinker, skeletal structure, slide, slingshot, softball, spinner, spitball, spool, steal, stick horse, stickball, strike, submarine ball, swing, syrinx, teddy, testis, three-hitter, tooth, top, train set, tube, two-hitter, uvea, valve, vascular structure, water pistol, wild pitch, yo-yo, zone

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): baseball, basketball, beach ball, billiard ball, bocce ball, bolus, bowl, bowling ball, clew, clot, cobblers, cotillion, cricket ball, croquet ball, crystal ball, daisy cutter, field hockey ball, fireball, football, globule, gob, golf ball, handball, jack, lacrosse ball, marble, masked ball, medicine ball, mothball, ninepin ball, pellet, ping-pong ball, polo ball, pool ball, promenade, punching bag, racquetball, roulette ball, rugby ball, snowball, soccer ball, softball, spherule, squash ball, tennis ball, time-ball, undescended testis, volleyball, wiffle

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: ball, chunk, chunky, conglobate, global, globular, lumpy, testicular

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen, The Bad Guys, Zootopia

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: