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# ball

«ball» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a round thing used in games, for throwing, kicking…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (ball, balls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A ball is a round thing used in games, for throwing, kicking, hitting or bouncing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#m1)

2) A ball is anything round, like a ball of wool or a snowball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#m2)

3) A ball is a big formal dance party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#m3)

4) The ball of the foot is the round part under the toes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it is a ball that is thrown hard and far, as a picture of someone being flung away. Interpretation: Isaiah warns the proud official Shebna that God will hurl him out of his office into a far land. Tradition reads this as a warning that pride in rank can be taken away. In the primary lessons: a thing counted; balls in boxes, bags or teams; in geometry a sphere; phrases «play ball», «on the ball» (quick to notice), «have a ball» (have great fun), «snowball», «ball game»

### examples

- He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of the lord's house. (Prophets ISA.22.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x1)
- He has 12 tennis balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x2)
- Each can holds 3 balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x3)
- She lost 4 balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x4)
- The coach bought 6 balls for 5 dollars each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x5)
- Kick the ball to me! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x6)
- She rolled the clay into a ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x7)
- Cinderella went to the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x8)
- We had a ball at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x9)
- A ball is shaped like a sphere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x10)
- Don't chase a ball onto the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/#x11)

### note

Just a thing counted. Trap: «a can of 3 balls» means 3 balls per can. «Ball» (dance) and «bawl» (cry loudly) sound the same. Safety: never run onto a road after a ball.

### In the corpora

- [Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/15/)
- [Pufferfish swallow water fast to blow up into a prickly ball, and many also have strong poison.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/12/)
- [Many zoos have stopped tricks like ball balancing and show natural behaviour instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/8/)
- [Think of an owl pellet on a classroom table: a ball of fur and tiny bones the owl coughed up, not poo.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/4/)
- [Running makes a dog want to chase, just as a ball rolling away does.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ball» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/ball/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.