baseball
English

A baseball.

A game of baseball.
Noun
baseball (plural baseballs)
- A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object 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.
- 1797-1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- 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.
- 1797-1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
- The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
- A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
Usage notes
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:baseball.
Derived terms
- baseball bat
- baseball cap
- baseball diamond
- baseballer
- baseball game
- baseballist
- baseball player
- baseball stadium
- indoor baseball
Translations
ball game
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ball used in baseball-game
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variety of poker
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbei̯sboːl/, [ˈbe̞i̯s̠bo̞ːl]
- Hyphenation: base‧ball
Declension
Inflection of baseball (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | baseball | baseballit | |
genitive | baseballin | baseballien | |
partitive | baseballia | baseballeja | |
illative | baseballiin | baseballeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | baseball | baseballit | |
accusative | nom. | baseball | baseballit |
gen. | baseballin | ||
genitive | baseballin | baseballien | |
partitive | baseballia | baseballeja | |
inessive | baseballissa | baseballeissa | |
elative | baseballista | baseballeista | |
illative | baseballiin | baseballeihin | |
adessive | baseballilla | baseballeilla | |
ablative | baseballilta | baseballeilta | |
allative | baseballille | baseballeille | |
essive | baseballina | baseballeina | |
translative | baseballiksi | baseballeiksi | |
instructive | — | baseballein | |
abessive | baseballitta | baseballeitta | |
comitative | — | baseballeineen |
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛz.bɔl/
Audio (file)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbeːzboːl]
- Hyphenation: base‧ball
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | baseball | baseballok |
accusative | baseballt | baseballokat |
dative | baseballnak | baseballoknak |
instrumental | baseballal | baseballokkal |
causal-final | baseballért | baseballokért |
translative | baseballá | baseballokká |
terminative | baseballig | baseballokig |
essive-formal | baseballként | baseballokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | baseballban | baseballokban |
superessive | baseballon | baseballokon |
adessive | baseballnál | baseballoknál |
illative | baseballba | baseballokba |
sublative | baseballra | baseballokra |
allative | baseballhoz | baseballokhoz |
elative | baseballból | baseballokból |
delative | baseballról | baseballokról |
ablative | baseballtól | baseballoktól |
Possessive forms of baseball | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | baseballom | baseballjaim |
2nd person sing. | baseballod | baseballjaid |
3rd person sing. | baseballja | baseballjai |
1st person plural | baseballunk | baseballjaink |
2nd person plural | baseballotok | baseballjaitok |
3rd person plural | baseballjuk | baseballjaik |
Derived terms
References
- Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Italian
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛj.zbɔl/
Declension
Derived terms
- baseballista
- baseballowy
- baseballówka
Further reading
- baseball in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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