Ball vs. Guts — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ball and Guts
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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.
Guts
The digestive tract or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach.
Ball
A solid or hollow spherical or egg-shaped object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game
A cricket ball
Guts
The embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut.
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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Guts
Guts The bowels or entrails; viscera.
Ball
The rounded protuberant part of the foot at the base of the big toe.
Guts
(Informal) A large belly or abdomen, especially one resulting from overeating or a sedentary lifestyle
“Aldo, old before his time, had grown a gut and developed a persistent phlegmy cough” (Michael Byers).
Ball
A formal social gathering for dancing
Anne danced with the captain at a fancy-dress ball
A ball gown
Guts
Innermost emotional or visceral response
She felt in her gut that he was guilty.
Ball
Squeeze or form (something) into a rounded shape
Robert balled up his napkin and threw it on to his plate
Guts
Guts The inner or essential parts
“The best part of a good car … is its guts” (Leigh Allison Wilson).
Ball
Have sexual intercourse with.
Guts
Guts Informal Courage; fortitude
It takes guts to be a rock climber.
Ball
(of a flower) fail to open properly, decaying in the half-open bud.
Guts
Thin, tough cord made from the intestines of animals, usually sheep, used as strings for musical instruments or as surgical sutures.
Ball
A spherical object or entity
A steel ball.
Guts
Fibrous material taken from the silk gland of a silkworm before it spins a cocoon, used for fishing tackle.
Ball
A spherical or almost spherical body
A ball of flame.
Guts
A narrow passage or channel.
Ball
Any of various movable and round or oblong objects used in various athletic activities and games.
Guts
The central, lengthwise portion of a playing area.
Ball
Such an object moving, thrown, hit, or kicked in a particular manner
A low ball.
A fair ball.
Guts
The players occupying this space
The fullback ran up the gut of the defense.
Ball
A game, especially baseball or basketball, played with such an object.
Guts
(Slang) A gut course.
Ball
A pitched baseball that does not pass through the strike zone and is not swung at by the batter.
Guts
To remove the intestines or entrails of; eviscerate.
Ball
A solid spherical or pointed projectile, such as one shot from a cannon.
Guts
To extract essential or major parts of
Gut a manuscript.
Ball
Projectiles of this kind considered as a group.
Guts
To destroy the interior of
Fire gutted the house.
Ball
A rounded part or protuberance, especially of the body
The ball of the foot.
Guts
To reduce or destroy the effectiveness of
A stipulation added at the last minute gutted the ordinance.
Ball
A testicle.
Guts
Arousing or involving basic emotions; visceral
“Conservationism is a gut issue in the West” (Saturday Review).
Ball
Balls Courage, especially when reckless.
Guts
Plural of gut
Ball
Balls Great presumptuousness.
Guts
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
Ball
A formal gathering for social dancing.
Guts
Courage; determination.
It must have taken some guts to speak in front of that audience.
She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts.
Ball
(Informal) An extremely enjoyable time or experience
We had a ball during our vacation.
Guts
(informal) Content, substance.
His speech had no guts in it.
Ball
To form into a ball.
Guts
(informal) The essential, core parts.
He knew all about the guts of the business, how things actually get done.
Ball
Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.
Guts
(informal) One's innermost feelings.
If you need someone to spill your guts out to, I'm here.
Ball
To become formed into a ball.
Guts
The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
Ball
Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse.
Guts
The center of the field.
Ball
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
A ball of spittle; a fecal ball
Guts
To eat greedily.
Ball
A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
A ball of wool; a ball of twine
Guts
(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).
He gutsed out a 6-1 win.
Ball
(mathematics) Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
Guts
Fortitude and determination;
He didn't have the guts to try it
Ball
(mathematics) In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
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.
Ball
(mathematics) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
Ball
A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
Ball
A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
Ball
Such bullets collectively.
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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