balk
1: the area on a billiard table behind the balkline; "a player with ball in hand must play from the balk" [syn: {baulk}] 2: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress [syn:...
Balkan
1: of or denoting or relating to the Balkan countries or their inhabitants or the Balkan peninsula or the Balkan Mountains n : an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula
Balkan country
1: a country on the Balkan Peninsula [syn: {Balkan nation}, {Balkan state}]
Balkan Mountain Range
1: the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula [syn: {Balkans}, {Balkan Mountains}]
Balkan Mountains
1: the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula [syn: {Balkans}, {Balkan Mountain Range}]
Balkan nation
1: a country on the Balkan Peninsula [syn: {Balkan country}, {Balkan state}]
Balkan Peninsula
1: a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range [syn: {Balkans}]
Balkan state
1: a country on the Balkan Peninsula [syn: {Balkan country}, {Balkan nation}]
Balkan Wars
1: two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Eu...
Balkanise
1: divide a territory into small, hostile states [syn: {Balkanize}]
Balkanize
1: divide a territory into small, hostile states [syn: {Balkanise}]
Balkans
1: the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula [syn: {Balkan Mountains}, {Balkan Mountain Range}] 2: a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range [sy...
balker
1: a person who refuses to comply [syn: {baulker}, {noncompliant}]
balkiness
1: likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly
balking
1: stopping short and refusing to go on; "a balking"; "a balky mule"; "a balky customer" [syn: {balky}]
balkline
1: line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game [syn: {baulk-line}, {string line}]
balky
1: stopping short and refusing to go on; "a balking"; "a balky mule"; "a balky customer" [syn: {balking}] [also: {balkiest}, {balkier}]
ball
1: round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games; "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"; "the mayor threw out the first ball"; "the ball rolled into the corner pocket" 2: a solid ball shot ...
ball bearing
1: bearings containing small metal balls [syn: {needle bearing}, {roller bearing}]
ball boy
1: a boy who retrieves balls for tennis players
ball carrier
1: (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
ball cartridge
1: a general purpose cartridge having a primer and a ball and a full charge of powder
ball club
1: a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division" [syn: {baseball club}, {club}, {nine}]
ball cock
1: floating ball that controls level in a water tank [syn: {ballcock}]
ball fern
1: feathery fern of tropical Asia and Malaysia [syn: {squirrel's-foot fern}, {Davalia bullata}, {Davalia bullata mariesii}, {Davallia Mariesii}]
ball field
1: the baseball playing field [syn: {baseball field}, {diamond}]
ball game
1: a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) [syn: {ballgame}]
ball gown
1: the most formal gown; worn to a ball
ball hawk
1: a team athlete who is skilled at stealing or catching the ball
ball hawking
1: a skillful maneuver in catching balls or in stealing the ball from the opposing team
ball nettle
1: coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States [syn: {horse nettle}, {bull nettle}, {ball nightshade}, {Solanum caro...
ball nightshade
1: coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States [syn: {horse nettle}, {ball nettle}, {bull nettle}, {Solanum caroline...
ball of fire
1: a highly energetic and indefatigable person [syn: {powerhouse}, {human dynamo}, {fireball}] 2: someone whose career progresses rapidly [syn: {go-getter}, {whizz-kid}, {whiz-kid}]
ball over
1: surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: {shock}, {stun}, {floor}, {blow out of the water}, {take aback}]
ball up
1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: {botch}, {bumble}, {fumble}, {botch up}, {...
ball valve
1: any valve that checks flow by the seating of a ball
ball-and-socket joint
1: a freely moving joint in which a sphere on the head of one bone fits into a rounded cavity in the other bone [syn: {spheroid joint}, {cotyloid joint}, {enarthrodial joint}, {enarthrosis}, {articula...
ball-breaker
1: a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence [syn: {ball-buster}] 2: a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker" [syn: {ball-buster}]
ball-buster
1: a demanding woman who destroys men's confidence [syn: {ball-breaker}] 2: a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker" [syn: {ball-breaker}]
ball-hawking
1: used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; "a ball-hawking center fielder"
ball-peen hammer
1: a hammer with one round and one flat end; used in working metal
ball-shaped
1: having the shape of a sphere or ball; "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey [syn: {global}, {globose}, {globular}, {orbicular}, ...
ballad
1: a narrative song with a recurrent refrain [syn: {lay}] 2: a narrative poem of popular origin [syn: {lay}]
ballad maker
1: a composer of words or music for popular songs [syn: {songwriter}, {songster}]
ballade
1: a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
balladeer
1: a singer of popular ballads [syn: {crooner}]
ballast
1: any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship 2: coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads 3: an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something ...
ballast resistor
1: a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) [syn: {ballast}, {barretter}]
ballcock
1: floating ball that controls level in a water tank [syn: {ball cock}]
balldress
1: a suit or dress for formal occasions
baller mistress
1: a woman who directs and teaches and rehearses dancers for a ballet company
ballerina
1: a female ballet dancer [syn: {danseuse}]
ballet
1: a theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers [syn: {concert dance}] 2: music written for a ballet
ballet master
1: a man who directs and teaches and rehearses dancers for a ballet company
ballet position
1: classical position of the body and especially the feet in ballet
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ballet skirt
1: very short skirt worn by ballerinas [syn: {tutu}]
balletic
1: characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet
ballgame
1: a particular situation that is radically different from the the preceding situation; "HDTV looks the same but it's really a whole new ballgame" [syn: {new ballgame}] 2: a field game played with a b...
ballista
1: medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: {catapult}, {arbalest}, {arbalist}, {bricole}, {mangonel}, {onager}, {trebuchet}, {trebuc...
ballistic
1: relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity; "ballistic missile"
ballistic capsule
1: a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun [syn: {spacecraft}, {space vehicle}]
ballistic fingerprinting
1: identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it [syn: {ballistic identification}, {bu...
ballistic identification
1: identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it [syn: {ballistic fingerprinting}, {bu...
ballistic missile
1: a missile that is guided in the first part of its flight but falls freely as it approaches target
ballistic pendulum
1: a physical pendulum consisting of a large mass suspended from a rod; its displacement is used to measure the velocity of a projectile
ballistics
1: the trajectory of an object in free flight [syn: {ballistic trajectory}] 2: the science of flight dynamics
Ballistite
1: an explosive (trade name Ballistite) that burns with relatively little smoke; contains pyrocellulose and is used as a propellant [syn: {smokeless powder}]
ballistocardiograph
1: a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as bl...
ballock
1: one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away" [syn: {testis}, {testicle}, {orchis}, {ball}, {bollock}, {nut}, {e...
balloon
1: small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck 2: large tough non-rigid bag filled with gas or heated air v 1: ride in a hot-air balloon; "He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced ...
balloon bomb
1: a bomb carried by a balloon; "In World War II the Japanese launched balloon bombs against North America" [syn: {Fugo}]
balloon flower
1: fragrant puffed-up white to reddish-pink flowers in long narrow clusters on erect stems; Arizona to New Mexico and Utah [syn: {scented penstemon}, {Penstemon palmeri}]
balloon seat
1: a seat that has a bell shape (on some 18th century chairs) [syn: {bell seat}]
balloon vine
1: woody perennial climbing plant with large ornamental seed pods that resemble balloons; tropical India and Africa and America [syn: {heart pea}, {Cardiospermum halicacabum}]
balloonfish
1: similar to but smaller than porcupinefish [syn: {Diodon holocanthus}]
ballot
1: a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting 2: a choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion" [syn: {vote}, {voting}, {balloting}] v : vote by bal...
ballot box
1: a box where voters deposit their ballots
Ballota
1: perennial herbs or subshrubs of especially Mediterranean area: black horehound [syn: {genus Ballota}]
Ballota nigra
1: ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers [syn: {black horehound}, {black archangel}, {fetid horehound}, {stinking horehound}]
balloting
1: a choice that is made by voting; "there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion" [syn: {vote}, {ballot}, {voting}]
ballottement
1: a palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the ...
ballpark
1: a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games); "take me out to the ballpark" [syn: {park}] 2: near to the scope or range of something; "his answer wasn't even in the right b...
ballpen
1: a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper [syn: {ballpoint}, {ballpoint pen}, {Biro}]
ballplayer
1: an athlete who plays baseball [syn: {baseball player}]
ballpoint
1: a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper [syn: {ballpoint pen}, {ballpen}, {Biro}]
ballpoint pen
1: a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper [syn: {ballpoint}, {ballpen}, {Biro}]
ballroom
1: large room used mainly for dancing [syn: {dance hall}, {dance palace}]
ballroom dance
1: any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom [syn: {ballroom dancing}]
ballroom dancing
1: any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom [syn: {ballroom dance}]
ballroom music
1: a genre of popular music composed for ballroom dancing [syn: {dance music}, {danceroom music}]
balls-up
1: something badly botched or muddled [syn: {ballup}, {cockup}, {mess-up}]
ballup
1: something badly botched or muddled [syn: {balls-up}, {cockup}, {mess-up}]
bally
1: (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: {bally(a)}, {blinking(a)}, {bloody(a)}, {blooming(a)}, ...
ballyhoo
1: blatant or sensational promotion [syn: {hoopla}, {hype}, {plug}] v : advertize noisily or blatantly
ballyhoo artist
1: someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention [syn: {sensationalist}]
ballyrag
1: be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young" [syn: {strong-arm}, {bully}, {browbeat}, {bullyrag}, {boss around}, {hector}, {push around}] [also: {ballyragging}, {ballyr...
balm
1: any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing 2: semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation [syn:...
balm of Gilead
1: medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; leaves smell of balsam when crushed; much used for pulpwood and Christmas trees [syn: {balsam fir}, {Canada balsam}, {Abies balsamea}] 2: a fragrant ...
balmily
1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: {daftly}, {dottily}, {nuttily}, {wackily}]
balmoral
1: a sturdy laced walking shoe 2: a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side [syn: {bluebonnet}]
Balmoral Castle
1: a castle in northeastern Scotland that is a private residenc of the British sovereign
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