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–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.

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 526 y.

8.	Slang: Vulgar. a testis.

balls, Slang: Vulgar.

a.	boldness; courage; brashness.

b.	nonsense (often used as an interjection).

10.	bolus (def. 1).

11.	Horticulture. a compact mass of soil covering the roots of an uprooted tree or other plant.

12.	Literary. a e6c 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.

a.	to act with speed.

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.

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Image Definition

–noun

1.	a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.

2.	an optical counterpart or appearance of an object, as is produced by reflection from a mirror, refraction by a lens, or the passage of luminous rays through a small aperture and their reception on a surface.

3.	a mental representation; idea; conception.

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4.	Psychology. a mental representation of something previously perceived, in the absence of the original stimulus.

5.	form; appearance; semblance: We are all created in God's image.

6.	counterpart; copy: That child is the image of his mother.

7.	a symbol; emblem.

8.	the general or public perception of a company, public figure, etc., esp. as achieved by careful calculation aimed at creating widespread goodwill.

9.	a type; embodiment: Red-faced and angry, he was the image of frustration.

10.	a description of something in speech or writing: Keats created some of the most beautiful images in the language.

11.	Rhetoric. a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor or a simile.

12.	an idol or representation of a deity: They knelt down before graven images.

13.	Mathematics. the point or set of points in the range corresponding to a designated point in the domain of a given function.

14.	Archaic. an illusion or apparition.

–verb (used with object)

15.	to picture or represent in the mind; imagine; conceive.

16.	to make an image of; portray in sculpture, painting, etc.

17.	to project (photographs, film, etc.) on a surface: Familiar scenes were imaged on the screen.

18.	to reflect the likeness of; mirror.

19.	to set forth in speech or writing; describe.

20.	to symbolize; typify.

21.	to resemble.

22.	Informal. to create an image for (a company, public figure, etc.): The candidate had to be imaged before being put on the campaign trail.

23.	to transform (data) into an exact replica in a different form, as changing digital data to pixels for display on a CRT or representing a medical scan of a body part in digital form.

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