baseball

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbeɪs.bɔːl/    美 /ˈbeɪs.bɔl/|/ˈbeɪs.bɑl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. uncountable
    — 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.
  2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball. countable
    — 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.
  3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance. countable,uncountable

词形变化

baseballs plural base ball alternative,obsolete base-ball alternative,dated

词汇关系

衍生词
antibaseball baseball Annie baseball bat baseball cap baseball card baseball diamond baseballdom baseballer baseballese baseball field baseball game baseball glove baseball hat baseballing baseballist baseball mitt baseball plant baseball player baseball rule baseball stadium baseball uniform basebrawl British baseball fantasy baseball indoor baseball inside baseball inside-baseball insider baseball nonbaseball organized baseball rotisserie baseball scrub baseball Welsh baseball
相关词
rounders softball wiffleball

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
Latin basis
Old French basebor.
Middle English base
English base
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Germanic *balluz
Old English *beall
Middle English bal
English ball
English baseball
From base + ball.
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