"base on balls" meaning in All languages combined

See base on balls on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: bases on balls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|bases on balls}} base on balls (plural bases on balls)
  1. (baseball) An instance where the batter is allowed to go directly to first base without the possibility of being put out, due to the opposing pitcher delivering four balls. Wikipedia link: base on balls Categories (topical): Baseball Synonyms: walk [common] Related terms: hit by pitch, catcher interference
    Sense id: en-base_on_balls-en-noun-fgMprr9V Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for base on balls meaning in All languages combined (1.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bases on balls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bases on balls"
      },
      "expansion": "base on balls (plural bases on balls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instance where the batter is allowed to go directly to first base without the possibility of being put out, due to the opposing pitcher delivering four balls."
      ],
      "id": "en-base_on_balls-en-noun-fgMprr9V",
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "put out",
          "put out"
        ],
        [
          "balls",
          "ball#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball) An instance where the batter is allowed to go directly to first base without the possibility of being put out, due to the opposing pitcher delivering four balls."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hit by pitch"
        },
        {
          "word": "catcher interference"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "common"
          ],
          "word": "walk"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "base on balls"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "base on balls"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bases on balls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bases on balls"
      },
      "expansion": "base on balls (plural bases on balls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hit by pitch"
    },
    {
      "word": "catcher interference"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Baseball"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instance where the batter is allowed to go directly to first base without the possibility of being put out, due to the opposing pitcher delivering four balls."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "put out",
          "put out"
        ],
        [
          "balls",
          "ball#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball) An instance where the batter is allowed to go directly to first base without the possibility of being put out, due to the opposing pitcher delivering four balls."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "base on balls"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "common"
      ],
      "word": "walk"
    }
  ],
  "word": "base on balls"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.