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Synonyms for ball
Synonyms for ball: baseball and lump. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for ball
- baseballnoun, in the sense "a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players"
- lumpnoun, in the sense "a compact mass"
All two are filed under ball's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players
There was a desire for National League ball in the area.
ball in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The pitcher wound up and threw the ball high over the batter's head.
- She wrote in her letter that her son had hit the ball clear over the fence at practice.
How it behaves: In this sense ball usually appears as the direct object of verbs like throw, catch, hit, or pitch, in an informal sporting register.
The true synonym
baseball
Same sentence, swapped: There was a desire for National League baseball in the area.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- egg
- formal
- cover
a compact mass
A ball of mud caught him on the shoulder.
The true synonym
lump
Same sentence, swapped: A lump of mud caught him on the shoulder.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot ball is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- egg
- baseball
- clustering
Where ball turns up in the game
ball is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where ball is the trap
- clubnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is nine, in the sense "a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together", so ball is there to be ruled out.
- bunchnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is cluster, in the sense "a grouping of a number of similar things", so ball is there to be ruled out.
- topverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is pinch, in the sense "cut the top off", and ball is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play ball
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ball reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because actions is the company ball keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ball carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.