Meaning of baseball | Babel Free

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1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective 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
2. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective 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.
3. an American game played with bat and ball. bofbal لُعْبَة البيسبول / كُرة القاعِدَه бейзбол basebol baseball das Baseball(-spiel) baseball μπέιζμπολbéisbol pesapall بیس بال baseball baseball בֵּייסבּוֹל, כָּדוּר בָּסִיס बेसबॉल bejzbol baseball baseball hornabolti baseball 野球 야구 beisbolas beisbols besbol honkbalbaseballbaseball دبيسبال لوبه، نوب ډنډې ته ورته يوه امريكايى لوبه baseball baseball бейсбол baseball baseball bezbol baseball, baseboll กีฬาเบสบอล beyzbol 棒球 бейсбол پیس بال ، ایک امریک...
4. The ball used to play the sport of baseball
5. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
6. A game played with a bat and ball by two opposing teams of nine players, each team playing alternately in the field and at bat, the players at bat having to run a course of four bases laid out in a diamond pattern in order to score.
7. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance
8. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
9. A game of darts in which the players attempt to score points by throwing the darts at a target laid out in the form of a baseball diamond.
10. (Baseball) a team game with nine players on each side, played on a field with four bases connected to form a diamond. The object is to score runs by batting the ball and running round the bases
11. (Baseball) the hard rawhide-covered ball used in this game
12. a game involving the batting of a hard ball, played by two teams usu. of nine players each on a large field with a diamond-shaped circuit defined by four bases, to which batters run and advance to score runs.
13. the ball used in this game.
14. A. N (= sport) → béisbol m; (= ball) → pelota f de béisbol
    N
15. B. CPD baseball cap N → gorra f de béisbolbaseball player N → jugador(a) m/f de béisbolBASEBALL
    CPD
16. n → Baseball m or nt
    n

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Examples

“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.”

““Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.”

“The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others. […] With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different.”

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