calcio — meaning in English
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English meaning
- calcium noun A soft, silvery-white chemical element (symbol Ca) essential for healthy bones and teeth.
- football noun A sport where two teams try to score by getting a ball into a goal, especially soccer in most of the world or American football in the US.
- kick verb To hit or strike something with the foot.
- soccer noun Association football, the sport played with a round ball moved mainly by kicking, not touched by hand except by the goalkeeper.
- spurn verb To reject something or someone with contempt or disdain.
Senses
calcio is used for these senses in English:
- association football A ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent.
- calcium The chemical element (Symbol Ca), with an atomic number 20. It is a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks.
- football (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
- football (UK, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, uncountable) Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
- soccer (originated, , late 19th C, now, commonly, US, Australia) Association football.
- spurn (archaic) A kick; a blow with the foot.
football — full definition
- noun A sport where two teams try to score by getting a ball into a goal, especially soccer in most of the world or American football in the US.
- noun The ball used in such a game.
- noun Informal: an issue passed back and forth between people or groups without resolution.