Nike Definition–noun | 1. | the ancient Greek goddess of victory. | | 2. | one of a series of antiaircraft or antimissile missiles having two or three rocket stages. | |
From Dictionary
Soccer Definition–noun | a form of football played between two teams of 11 players, in which the ball may be advanced by kicking or by bouncing it off any part of the body but the arms and hands, except in the case of the goalkeepers, who may use their hands to catch, carry, throw, or stop the ball. | |
From Dictionary
Ball Definition–noun | 1. | a spherical or approximately spherical body or shape; sphere: He rolled the piece of paper into a ball. | | 2. | a round or roundish body, of various sizes and materials, either hollow or solid, for use in games, as baseball, football, tennis, or golf. | | 3. | a game played with a ball, esp. baseball: The boys are out playing ball. | | 4. | Baseball. a pitched ball, not swung at by the batter, that does not pass over home plate between the batter's shoulders and knees. | | 5. | Military. | a. | a solid, usually spherical projectile for a cannon, rifle, pistol, etc., as distinguished from a shell. | | b. | projectiles, esp. bullets, collectively. | | | 6. | any part of a thing, esp. of the human body, that is rounded or protuberant: the ball of the thumb. | | 7. | a round mass of food, as of chopped meat, dough, or cand
5c7
y. | | 8. | Slang: Vulgar. a testis. | | 9. | balls, Slang: Vulgar. | a. | boldness; courage; brashness. | | b. | nonsense (often used as an interjection). | | | 11. | Horticulture. a compact mass of soil covering the roots of an uprooted tree or other plant. | | 12. | Literary. a planetary or celestial body, esp. the earth. | | 13. | Mathematics. (in a metric space) the set of points whose distance from the zero element is less than, or less than or equal to, a specified number. | –verb (used with object) | 14. | to make into a ball (sometimes fol. by up): The children were balling up snow to make a snowman. | | 15. | to wind into balls: to ball cotton. | | 16. | Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with. | –verb (used without object) | 17. | to form or gather into a ball: When the spun sugar balls, the candy has cooked sufficiently. | | 18. | Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse. | —Verb phrase | 19. | ball up, Slang. to make or become utterly confused; muddle: The records had been all balled up by inefficient file clerks. | —Idioms | 20. | ball the jack, Slang. | b. | to stake everything on one attempt. | | | 21. | carry the ball, to assume the responsibility; bear the burden: You can always count on him to carry the ball in an emergency. | | 22. | drop the ball, to make a mistake or miss an opportunity at a critical moment. | | 23. | keep the ball rolling, to continue or give renewed vigor to an activity already under way: When their interest lagged, he tried to keep the ball rolling. | | 24. | on the ball, | a. | alert and efficient or effective: If you don't get on the ball, you'll be fired. | | b. | indicating intelligence or ability: The tests show your students don't have much on the ball. The new manager has a lot on the ball. | | 25. | play ball, | a. | to begin or continue playing a game. | | b. | to start or continue any action. | | c. | to work together; cooperate: union leaders suspected of playing ball with racketeers. | | | 26. | run with the ball, to assume responsibility or work enthusiastically: If management approves the concept, we'll run with the ball. | | 27. | start the ball rolling, to put into operation; begin: The recreation director started the ball rolling by having all the participants introduce themselves. | | From DictionaryRelated topics from Britannica |
Related topics from Ask News" Who made your kid's soccer ball?
The Free Lance-Star - Found Oct. 26, 2008
If that's the case, you might want to take a look at your kid's soccer ball. ... Demand companies like Mitre and Nike inspect overseas
|
|
MSoc: Gonzaga Wins Nike Soccer Classic
NCAA sports - Found Sep. 22, 2008
... stretch for a 1-0 men's soccer victory Sunday and the title of the Gonzaga Nike Soccer Classic. ... at 57:35 when he took a thru ball from ...
|
|
Cavaliers Defeat Dartmouth to Win Virginia Nike Soccer Classic
VirginiaSports - Found Sep. 19, 2008
9 Virginia women’s soccer team captured the 2008 Virginia Nike Soccer Classic title with a 2 ... Alwine (Elizabethtown, Pa.) sent a ball to
|
|
Furman, Georgia State Play To Draw At Nike Soccer Classic, 2-2
Furman Paladins - Found Sep. 20, 2008
... in double overtime in men's soccer action Friday afternoon at the Wofford/Nike Soccer Classic. ... in the match collecting the ball outside of ...
|
|
Viral Videos - How to make one Posted By : SimonMSkinner
Article Dashboard.com - Found Dec. 20, 2008
... soccer player in it from a few years ago. He started by doing all kinds of tricks with the ball ... It was later discovered that Nike came up ...
|
|
How is it that fifteen years of anti-sweatshop activism failed both ...
Globalise Resistance - Found Dec. 18, 2008
... a period in the late-1990s, for example, Nike, Inc. ... The Sialkot soccer ball (child labor) controversy was a pivotal moment in changing the ...
|
|
U.S. Soccer - Davis: Columbus the obvious choice to host Mexico
ESPNsoccernet - Found Dec. 18, 2008
Anybody recall the orange ball stunt of 2001? U.S. Soccer officials sent the Mexican federation a case of orange Nike game balls in the run-up...
|
|
Talking tactics
ArabianBusiness.com - Found Dec. 18, 2008
... says of his battle to overthrow the Nike empire ... Teamgeist football, the official ball of the ... the women’s, and the beach soccer ...
|
|
Q & A: Chris Rolfe
Chicago Tribune - Found Dec. 17, 2008
If I can get the ball at my feet and keep the ... After your sophomore year of college soccer, did ... I stopped wearing the blue Nike Vapors ...
|
|
Best of 08: Peter Moore
GamesIndustry.biz - Found Dec. 18, 2008
... minutes...snap the ball, throw the ball - it's ... As a huge soccer fan, going back almost since I ... like 700 teams in there, and Nike and ...
|
|
|
Related topics from Technorati |
|
|
|
