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pallo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ball noun A round or roughly spherical object, especially one used in sports and games.
  • balloon noun A flexible bag that inflates with air or gas, used as a toy, decoration, or for flight.
  • global adj Affecting or involving the whole world.
  • globe noun The planet Earth.
  • orb noun A sphere or spherical object, especially something described poetically — a planet, star, or globe.
  • pinball noun An arcade game played on a sloped table, where a player launches and controls a metal ball to hit targets and score points.
  • sphere noun A perfectly round, three-dimensional shape, like a ball.
  • spherical adj Shaped like a sphere; round in three dimensions.

Senses

pallo 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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
  • balloon (architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
  • global (not comparable) Of or relating to a globe or sphere.
  • globe Any spherical (or nearly spherical) object.
  • orb A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
  • pinball The ball used in pinball.

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.

balloon — full definition

  1. noun A flexible bag that inflates with air or gas, used as a toy, decoration, or for flight.
  2. noun The rounded outline enclosing a character's speech in a comic strip.
  3. verb To swell or increase rapidly in size or amount.

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