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baseball

/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/

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What does baseball mean?

noun

  1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
  2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
  3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈbeɪs.bɔl/

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/ˈbeɪs.bɑl/
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But on both the baseball and football squads were a few fellows not choice in their use of English.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994
Let me turn now to the first principle of all ball games, whether tennis, golf, cricket, baseball, polo, or football.
William T. (William Tatem) TildenThe Art of Lawn TennisProject Gutenberg ebook #1451
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But the more baseball I see the more it enchants me as a spectacle, and these early questionings are forgotten.
E. V. (Edward Verrall) LucasRoving East and Roving WestProject Gutenberg ebook #7237
My cow has a swelling under her neck between her jaw bones about the size of a baseball and almost as hard.
Edward J. (Edward James) WicksonOne Thousand Questions in California Agriculture AnsweredProject Gutenberg ebook #5152
Betsy and I walked as far as the baseball field in the course of the evening, and caught a glimpse of the orgies.
Jean WebsterDear EnemyProject Gutenberg ebook #238