Ball vs. Disk — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ball and Disk
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Ball
A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but can sometimes be ovoid) with various uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players.
Disk
US spelling of disc, also widely used in computing contexts
Ball
A solid or hollow spherical or egg-shaped object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game
A cricket ball
Disk
A thin, flat, circular object or plate.
Ball
(in cricket) a delivery of the ball by the bowler to the batsman
His half century came off only forty balls
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Disk
Something resembling such an object
The moon's disk was reflected in the pond.
Ball
The rounded protuberant part of the foot at the base of the big toe.
Disk
The disk used in a disc brake.
Ball
A formal social gathering for dancing
Anne danced with the captain at a fancy-dress ball
A ball gown
Disk
A disk used on a disk harrow.
Ball
Squeeze or form (something) into a rounded shape
Robert balled up his napkin and threw it on to his plate
Disk
A round, flattened structure in a plant or animal, such as an intervertebral disk.
Ball
Have sexual intercourse with.
Disk
(Botany) The central area bearing numerous disk flowers in the flower head of a composite plant such as a daisy.
Ball
(of a flower) fail to open properly, decaying in the half-open bud.
Disk
An optical disc, especially a compact disc.
Ball
A spherical object or entity
A steel ball.
Disk
A magnetic disk, such as a floppy disk or hard disk.
Ball
A spherical or almost spherical body
A ball of flame.
Disk
The data stored on such objects.
Ball
Any of various movable and round or oblong objects used in various athletic activities and games.
Disk
A phonograph record.
Ball
Such an object moving, thrown, hit, or kicked in a particular manner
A low ball.
A fair ball.
Disk
A circular grid in a phototypesetting machine.
Ball
A game, especially baseball or basketball, played with such an object.
Disk
To work (soil) with a disk harrow.
Ball
A pitched baseball that does not pass through the strike zone and is not swung at by the batter.
Disk
To make (a recording) on a phonograph record.
Ball
A solid spherical or pointed projectile, such as one shot from a cannon.
Disk
A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.
A coin is a disk of metal.
Ball
Projectiles of this kind considered as a group.
Disk
(figuratively) Something resembling a disk.
Venus' disk cut off light from the Sun.
Ball
A rounded part or protuberance, especially of the body
The ball of the foot.
Disk
(anatomy) An intervertebral disc
Ball
A testicle.
Disk
(dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.
Turn the disk over, after it has finished.
Ball
Balls Courage, especially when reckless.
Disk
(computer hardware) floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.
He still uses floppy disks from 1979.
Ball
Balls Great presumptuousness.
Disk
A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.
She burned some disks yesterday to back up her computer.
Ball
A formal gathering for social dancing.
Disk
(agriculture) A type of harrow.
Ball
(Informal) An extremely enjoyable time or experience
We had a ball during our vacation.
Disk
(botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.
Ball
To form into a ball.
Disk
(agriculture) To harrow.
Ball
Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.
Disk
To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.
Ball
To become formed into a ball.
Disk
A discus; a quoit.
Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart.
Ball
Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse.
Disk
A flat, circular plate; as, a disk of metal or paper.
Ball
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
A ball of spittle; a fecal ball
Disk
The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.
Ball
A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
A ball of wool; a ball of twine
Disk
A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disk; germinal disk, etc.
Ball
(mathematics) Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
Disk
The whole surface of a leaf.
Ball
(mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
Disk
The anterior surface or oral area of clenterate animals, as of sea anemones.
Ball
(mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
Disk
Something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
Ball
(mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
Disk
A flat circular plate
Ball
A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
Disk
Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves
Ball
A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
Disk
(computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk covered with a magnetic coating on which information is stored
Ball
Such bullets collectively.
Disk
Draw a harrow over (land)
Ball
A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
The ball of the thumb
Ball
(anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
Ball
The globe; the earthly sphere.
Ball
An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
Ball
Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
Ball
A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
Ball
An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
If you get to a million points, you get another ball.
Ball
A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
Ball
A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
Ball
A testicle.
Ball
(in the plural) Nonsense.
That’s a load of balls, and you know it!
Ball
(in the plural) Courage.
I doubt he’s got the balls to tell you off.
Ball
A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
Ball
A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
Ball
One thousand US dollars.
Ball
A formal dance.
Ball
(informal) A very enjoyable time.
I had a ball at that concert.
Ball
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.
Ball
(transitive) To form or wind into a ball.
To ball cotton
Ball
(metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
Ball
To have sexual intercourse with.
Ball
(ambitransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
The horse balls
The snow balls
Ball
To be hip or cool.
Ball
(university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (blackball)
Ball
To play basketball.
Ball
(transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
Ball
(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.
Ball
Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
Ball
A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
Ball
A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
Ball
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; - often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.
Ball
A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
Ball
A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; - formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
Ball
A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
Ball
A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
Ball
The globe or earth.
Move round the dark terrestrial ball.
Ball
A pitched ball, not struck at by the batter, which fails to pass over the home plate at a height not greater than the batter's shoulder nor less than his knee (i.e. it is outside the strike zone). If the pitcher pitches four balls before three strikes are called, the batter advances to first base, and the action of pitching four balls is called a walk.
Ball
A testicle; usually used in the plural.
Ball
Courage; nerve.
Ball
A social assembly for the purpose of dancing; - usually applied to an occasion lavish or formal.
Ball
A very enjoyable time; as, we had a ball at the wedding.
Ball
To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
Ball
To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
Ball
To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
Ball
Round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games;
The ball travelled 90 mph on his serve
The mayor threw out the first ball
The ball rolled into the corner pocket
Ball
A solid ball shot by a musket;
They had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball
Ball
An object with a spherical shape;
A ball of fire
Ball
The people assembled at a lavish formal dance;
The ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded
Ball
One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens;
She kicked him in the balls and got away
Ball
A spherical object used as a plaything;
He played with his rubber ball in the bathtub
Ball
United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)
Ball
A compact mass;
A ball of mud caught him on the shoulder
Ball
A lavish formal dance
Ball
A more or less rounded anatomical body or mass; ball of the human foot or ball at the base of the thumb;
He stood on the balls of his feet
Ball
A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of 9 players; teams take turns at bat trying to score run;
He played baseball in high school
There was a baseball game on every empy lot
There was a desire for National League ball in the area
Play ball!
Ball
A pitch that is not in the strike zone;
He threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him
Ball
Form into a ball by winding or rolling;
Ball wool
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