different between baseball vs rounder

English

Alternative forms

• base ball (obsolete) [1800s]
• base-ball (dated)

Etymology

base +? ball

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?be?s.b??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?be?s.b?l/, /?be?s.b?l/

Noun

baseball (plural baseballs)

1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object 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.
   • 1797-1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

     It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.

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.

Usage notes

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:baseball.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• rounders
• softball
• wiffleball
• Appendix:Glossary of baseball

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Noun

baseball m

1. baseball

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bei?sbo?l/, [?be?i?s?bo??l]
• Syllabification: base?ball

Noun

baseball

1. baseball

Declension

Synonyms

• amerikkalainen pesäpallo (archaic)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?z.b?l/

Noun

baseball m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of base-ball

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?be?zbo?l]
• Hyphenation: base?ball
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

baseball

1. (sports) baseball

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• baseball in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Noun

baseball m (invariable)

1. baseball

   Synonym: (rare) pallabase

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From American English baseball

Noun

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

1. baseball (ball game)

References

• “baseball” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “baseball” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From American English baseball

Noun

baseball m (definite singular baseballen, uncountable)

1. baseball (ball game)

References

• “baseball” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Alternative forms

• bejsbol

Etymology

Borrowed from English baseball.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?j.zb?l/

Noun

baseball m inan

1. baseball

Declension

Derived terms

• baseballista
• baseballowy
• baseballówka

Further reading

• baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?nd?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?nd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English rounder, roundere, equivalent to round +? -er (comparative suffix).

Adjective

rounder

1. comparative form of round: more round

Etymology 2

From round +? -er (agent suffix).

Noun

rounder (plural rounders)

1. A Methodist preacher traveling a circuit, also referred to as a circuit rider.
   • ?Mike Richards - "Kentucky Hills of Tennessee"

     My daddy was a rounder, he wore a rounder's hat and coat.

2. A railroad man who worked at a roundhouse, operating the turntable.
   • 1923, Traditional(Arr. Fiddlin' John Carson), Casey Jones

     Come all you rounders if you want to hear

     A story I'm a-tellin' on a brave engineer

     Casey Jones was this rounder's name

     On a six-eight wheeler boys he won his fame...

3. A person who earns a living by playing cards
4. A person who makes the rounds of bars, saloons, and similar establishments; figuratively, a debaucher or roué
   • 2006, based on traditional, "Cocaine Habit", Old Crow Medicine Show

     Take a whiff on me

     Take a whiff on me

     All you rounders, take a whiff on me

     Hey, hey, honey, take a whiff on me

5. One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
6. A tool for making an edge or surface round.

Anagrams

• Rednour, rondure, unorder