different between ball vs marble

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: bôl, IPA^(key): /b??l/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /b?l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Homophone: bawl

Etymology 1

From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse b?llr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?oln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.

Noun

ball (countable and uncountable, plural balls)

1. A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
   1. A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

   2. (ballistics, firearms) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
      1. A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
      2. (uncountable, obsolete) Such bullets collectively.
         • 1659, Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, England’s Confusion, London, p. 7,^[1]

           […] the Good Old Cause, which, as they seemed to represent it, smelt of Gunpowder and ball […]

         • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, p. 294,^[2]

           I gave each of them a Musket with a Firelock on it, and about eight Charges of Powder and Ball, charging them to be very good Husbands of both, and not to use either of them but upon urgent Occasion.

         • 1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 148,^[3]

           […] some headstrong Maroons were using a soldier of Captain Craskell’s ill, and compelling him to write to his commander, that it was too late to do any thing good, and that they wanted nothing, having got plenty of powder and ball […]
   3. A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body.

   4. (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
   5. The globe; the earthly sphere.
      • c. 1712', Joseph Addison, Ode to the Creator of the World

        What, though in solemn Silence, all
        Move round the dark terrestrial Ball!

      • 1717, Alexander Pope, "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady"

        Thus, if eternal Justice rules the ball, / Thus shall your wives, and thus your children fall;

   6. (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point; specifically, the homologue of the disk in a Euclidean space of any number of dimensions.
   7. (mathematics, more generally) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point; the analogue of the disk in a Euclidean space.
   8. An object, generally spherical, used for playing games in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, etc.
2. (sports) A round or ellipsoidal object.
   1. Any sport or game involving a ball.

   3. (baseball) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
   4. (pinball) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.

   5. (cricket) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
   6. (soccer) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
3. (mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
   1. (in the plural) Nonsense.

   2. (in the plural) Courage.

4. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
5. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
   • 1842, James White, A compendium of the veterinary art

     The laxative alterative has not this advantage, the aloes, of which it is composed, being extremely bitter, and therefore requiring to be given in the form of a ball.

Synonyms

• sphere
• globe
• (testicle): See Thesaurus:testicle
• (nonsense): See Thesaurus:nonsense
• (courage): chutzpah, guts, nerve

Derived terms

(solid or hollow sphere):

(testicle):

Translations

Verb

ball (third-person singular simple present balls, present participle balling, simple past and past participle balled)

1. (transitive) To form or wind into a ball.

   Synonyms: roll up, wad

2. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
3. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with
4. (transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

5. (slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.
6. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
7. (transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain
   • 1865, Camp Sumpter, Andersonville National Historic Site, Rules and Regulations of the Prison

     any man refusing to do police duty will be punished by the sergts by balling him the rest of the day.

Translations

Interjection

ball

1. (Australian rules football) 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.

Etymology 2

From French bal, from Late Latin ball?.

Noun

ball (plural balls)

1. A formal dance.
2. (informal) A very enjoyable time.

   Synonyms: blast, whale of a time

3. 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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• ballad
• ballade

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From French bal (“a dance”)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ba?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

ball m (plural balls)

1. dance
2. ball, formal dance

Synonyms

• dansa

Derived terms

• ball de bastons

Related terms

• ballar

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from French balle (“ball”).

Noun

ball

1. estimation, score

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[5], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From French bal (“a dance”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pal?/
• Rhymes: -al?

Noun

ball n (genitive singular balls, nominative plural böll)

1. dance

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ball, from Proto-Celtic *ballos, from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to blow, swell, inflate”); compare English ball, Greek ?????? (phallós, “penis”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /b??ul??/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /b???l??/
• (Mayo) IPA^(key): /b?al??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /b?al??/

Noun

ball m (genitive singular baill, nominative plural baill)

1. (anatomy) organ
2. component part
3. member
4. article
5. spot, place
6. spot, mark
7. (sets) element, member

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• "ball" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English *beall.

Noun

ball

1. Alternative form of bal

Etymology 2

Probably from Old French bale.

Noun

ball

1. Alternative form of bale (“bale”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse b?llr.

Noun

ball m (definite singular ballen, indefinite plural baller, definite plural ballene)

1. ball (solid or hollow sphere)
2. ball (object, usually spherical, used for playing games)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bal.

Noun

ball n (definite singular ballet, indefinite plural ball or baller, definite plural balla or ballene)

1. ball (formal social occasion involving dancing)

Derived terms

• ballkjole
• ballsal

References

• “ball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse b?llr.

Noun

ball m (definite singular ballen, indefinite plural ballar, definite plural ballane)

1. a ball (solid or hollow sphere)
2. a ball (object, usually spherical, used for playing games)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bal.

Noun

ball n (definite singular ballet, indefinite plural ball, definite plural balla)

1. ball (formal social occasion involving dancing)

Derived terms

• ballkjole
• ballsal

References

• “ball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ballos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bal?/

Noun

ball m

1. a body part
2. member of a group
3. part, portion
4. a colored spot

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: ball
• Scottish Gaelic: ball

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ball m (“limb, member, organ; member of community; part, portion, piece; article, object; place, spot; passage (of a book); spot, mark, blemish”) (compare Irish ball), from Proto-Celtic *ballo-, from Proto-Indo-European *bhel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”) (compare English ball, Ancient Greek ?????? (phallós, “penis”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paul??/

Noun

ball m (genitive singular buill, plural buill)

1. ball
2. member (of a group)
3. article, item
4. (anatomy) organ; limb

Derived terms

• ball-coise (“football, soccer”)
• ball-basgaid (“basketball”)
• ball-beusa (“baseball”)
• ball-stèidhe (“baseball”)
• ball-bholaidh (“volleyball”)
• ball-goilf (“golf ball”)
• Ball Pàrlamaid, BP (“Member of Parliament, MP”)
• ballrachd (“membership”)
• BPA

Mutation

References

• “ball” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “ball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Swedish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bal?/

Adjective

ball

1. (slang) cool, hip, fun, entertaining

   Synonym: cool

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English marble, marbre, from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek ???????? (mármaros), perhaps related to ????????? (marmáreos, “gleaming”). Much of the early classical marble came from the 'Marmaris' sea above the Aegean. The forms from French replaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??b?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??b?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b?l
• Hyphenation: mar?ble

Noun

marble (countable and uncountable, plural marbles)

1. (uncountable, petrology) A rock of crystalline limestone. [from 12th c.]

   Hypernym: limestone

   • 1751, Thomas Morell (librettist), Jephtha:

     Open thy marble jaws, O tomb / And hide me, earth, in thy dark womb.

2. (countable, games) A small ball, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic. [from 17th c.]
3. (in the plural, archaeology) Statues made from marble. [from 17th c.]
   • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson 1986, p. 164:

     [I]t was a portrait of the Library, though not strictly correct as to its contents, since all the best of the marbles displayed in various parts of the house were brought into the painting by the artist, who made it up into a picturesque composition according to his own taste.

Hyponyms

• (small ball): china, plaster

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

marble (third-person singular simple present marbles, present participle marbling, simple past and past participle marbled)

1. (transitive) To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.

   Synonym: marbleize

   • 1774, William Hutchinson, An excursion to the lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August, 1773, page 29:

     The small clouds which chequered the sky, as they passed along, spread their flitting shadows on the distant mountains, and seemed to marble them; a beauty which I do not recollect has struck any painter.

   • 1899, Thirteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, volume 1, page 106:

     In the operation of marbling the edges of the books, [...]

2. (intransitive) To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants.
   • 2007, Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book: Recipes and Techniques, page 125:

     Scent the entire batch and then color half with the blue colorant. Pour both parts back into your soap pot. Do not stir. Pour in a circular motion into a block mold. The pouring action will cause the soap to marble.

3. (transitive) To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble.

   Synonym: marbleize

   • 1848, Samuel D. Martin, in a letter to the Albany Cultivator, quoted in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture (for the year 1859; published 1860), page 157:

     Their flesh is soft (tender), and they throw a portion of their fat among the lean so as to marble it. The beef is of a better quality and they take on fat much easier.

   • 1904, Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture for the year 1903, page 309:

     The Merino sheep is likely to put his weight largely into tallow around the stomach, intestines and on his kidneys, instead of mixing fairly with the meat, instead of marbling the meat.

   • 2004, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Encyclopedia of kitchen history, page 684:

     Either by forcing the lardoon out with a plunger, by pushing it with a knife point, or by trailing it behind the needle, the cook artificially marbles the meat. For French cooks intent on larding, traditionally, the choice fat was the lard gras (pork fat).

4. (intransitive, of meat, especially beef) To become interlaced with fat; (of fat) to interlace through meat.
   • 1999, Kathleen Jo Ryan, Deep in the heart of Texas: Texas ranchers in their own words, page 99:

     We've gone mostly to black bulls — Angus bulls because today the packers like black cattle. They seem to marble better.

   • 1972, Sondra Gotlieb, The Gourmet’s Canada, page 129:

     The exercising of the cattle causes the fat to marble right through the animal — and much of the flavour is found in the fat.

5. (by extension, figuratively) To lace or be laced throughout.
   • 1993, Susan Napier, Winter of Dreams, page 52:

     Was he the reason for the bitterness that seemed to marble her character?

   • 2004, Scott Bevan, Battle Lines: Australian Artists at War:

     'Nobody who has been to war ever talks about it,' he says. But then he does talk, and generously, mining his memory and following the vein of a life marbled with experience: 'I mean, I am in my nineties; […] '

Derived terms

• marbling

Related terms

• marmoreal

Translations

Adjective

marble (comparative more marble, superlative most marble)

1. Made of, or resembling, marble.

2. (figuratively) Cold; hard; unfeeling.

Further reading

• marble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• marble at OneLook Dictionary Search
• marble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Ambler, Balmer, Blamer, ambler, blamer, lamber, ramble