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kuula — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ball noun A round or roughly spherical object, especially one used in sports and games.
  • bowl noun A round, open container used to hold or serve food such as soup, salad, or cereal.
  • bowls noun A precision outdoor sport in which players roll weighted balls to land as close as possible to a smaller target ball.
  • bullet noun A small metal projectile fired from a gun.
  • cannonball noun A round metal projectile fired from a cannon.
  • shot noun The firing of a gun, or the result of firing it.

Senses

kuula is used for these senses in English:

  • ball (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
  • ball (ballistics, firearms) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
  • ball (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
  • bowl (bowls) The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
  • bowls A ball used in the game of bowls
  • bullet (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
  • cannonball A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
  • shot (countable, athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.

ball — full definition

  1. noun A round or roughly spherical object, especially one used in sports and games.
  2. noun A large, formal social gathering for dancing.
  3. verb To form or roll something into a round shape.

bowl — full definition

  1. noun A round, open container used to hold or serve food such as soup, salad, or cereal.
  2. noun A major American football championship game or one of several season-ending postseason games.
  3. verb In cricket, to throw or deliver the ball toward the batsman according to the rules of the game.

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