See cannonball on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cannonball effect"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cannonballer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cannonball fungus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cannonball mangrove"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cannonball problem"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cannonball run"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cannonball tree"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "human cannonball"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cannon",
"3": "ball"
},
"expansion": "cannon + ball",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From cannon + ball from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cannonballs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cannonball (plural cannonballs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "jack-knife"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "bellyflop"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "backflop"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "rip entry"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Artillery",
"orig": "en:Artillery",
"parents": [
"Weapons",
"Hunting",
"Military",
"Tools",
"Human activity",
"Society",
"Technology",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Military",
"orig": "en:Military",
"parents": [
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "23 22 12 3 27 6 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "37 19 10 2 20 7 6",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Artillery",
"orig": "en:Artillery",
"parents": [
"Weapons",
"Hunting",
"Military",
"Tools",
"Human activity",
"Society",
"Technology",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon."
],
"id": "en-cannonball-en-noun-32u15U7S",
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"weaponry",
"weaponry"
],
[
"smoothbore",
"smoothbore"
],
[
"cannon",
"cannon"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military, weaponry)",
"A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "solid shot"
},
{
"word": "ball"
},
{
"word": "round shot"
}
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"government",
"military",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"politics",
"tools",
"war",
"weaponry"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "kanonkoeël"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hranotʻi gndak",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "հրանոթի գնդակ"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʻndanotʻi ṙmbagund",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "թնդանոթի ռմբագունդ"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gjulé",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гюле́"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "砲彈"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pàodàn",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "炮弹"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kanonkugle"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanonskogel"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "tykinkuula"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "kuula"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boulet de canon"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kanonenkugel"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "ágyúgolyó"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "kuglego"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palla di cannone"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"alt": "ほうだん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hōdan",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "砲弾"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"alt": "砲彈",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "potan",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "포탄"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "daepoal",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "대포알"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "top"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ǵúle",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ѓу́ле"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "mrw",
"lang": "Maranao",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "pinang"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "mrw",
"lang": "Maranao",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "pitonang"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "gunneston"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balle dé canon"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boulet dé canon"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanonkule"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kanonkule"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kula armatnia"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bala de canhão"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ghiulea"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "púšečnoje jadró",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пу́шечное ядро́"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jadró",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ядро́"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "đule"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bala de cañón"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kanonkula"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kula"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 6 2 0 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "gülle"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Artillery",
"orig": "en:Artillery",
"parents": [
"Weapons",
"Hunting",
"Military",
"Tools",
"Human activity",
"Society",
"Technology",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Military",
"orig": "en:Military",
"parents": [
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "23 22 12 3 27 6 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact."
],
"id": "en-cannonball-en-noun-Zbf9QhQR",
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"weaponry",
"weaponry"
],
[
"fused",
"fused"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military, weaponry)",
"An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"government",
"military",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"politics",
"tools",
"war",
"weaponry"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Diving",
"orig": "en:Diving",
"parents": [
"Water sports",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "23 22 12 3 27 6 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40"
},
{
"text": "The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball."
],
"id": "en-cannonball-en-noun-kQmoyYEz",
"links": [
[
"diving",
"diving#Noun"
],
[
"jump",
"jump"
],
[
"swimming pool",
"swimming pool"
],
[
"leg",
"leg"
],
[
"bent",
"bent"
],
[
"arm",
"arm"
],
[
"wrap",
"wrap"
],
[
"knee",
"knee"
],
[
"splash",
"splash"
],
[
"flight",
"flight"
],
[
"shape",
"shape"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(diving) The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball."
],
"topics": [
"diving",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 5 87 1 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bommetje"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 87 1 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"word": "pommi"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 87 1 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Arschbombe"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 87 1 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bómba",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бо́мба"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 87 1 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bomba"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 87 1 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bala de canhão"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Rail transportation",
"orig": "en:Rail transportation",
"parents": [
"Transport",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song \"Wabash Cannonball\".",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Something that moves fast, especially a fast train."
],
"id": "en-cannonball-en-noun-1R33WVr5",
"links": [
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"fast",
"fast"
],
[
"train",
"train"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast, especially a fast train."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Tennis",
"orig": "en:Tennis",
"parents": [
"Ball games",
"Racquet sports",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "23 16 12 1 36 2 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 9 8 3 54 5 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "21 15 9 2 39 6 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 12 11 2 44 3 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 12 4 37 6 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 13 13 4 37 8 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 13 16 3 37 5 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 11 9 3 50 4 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 13 11 5 36 7 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 12 11 4 41 6 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 13 12 4 41 6 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 12 4 38 5 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "23 22 12 3 27 6 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 11 3 42 4 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ido translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 13 11 4 41 5 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 13 11 4 41 5 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 12 4 37 6 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Korean translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 13 11 4 41 5 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ladino translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 12 4 37 6 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 17 11 3 32 5 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 16 11 3 37 6 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Maranao translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 14 11 4 35 6 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Middle English translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 13 12 4 37 7 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norman translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 14 13 4 35 7 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 12 10 1 48 2 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 13 12 4 38 8 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 16 11 3 34 5 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 12 4 37 6 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 13 11 4 41 5 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 12 4 38 6 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 12 10 3 42 6 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 12 3 38 6 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 12 3 38 6 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight."
],
"id": "en-cannonball-en-noun-d0q~58oX",
"links": [
[
"tennis",
"tennis"
],
[
"serve",
"serve"
],
[
"ball",
"ball"
],
[
"speed",
"speed"
],
[
"arc",
"arc"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(tennis) A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight."
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports",
"tennis"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkænənˌbɔːl/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-cannonball.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/En-us-cannonball.ogg/En-us-cannonball.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/En-us-cannonball.ogg"
}
],
"word": "cannonball"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cannon",
"3": "ball"
},
"expansion": "cannon + ball",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From cannon + ball from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cannonballs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cannonballing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cannonballed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cannonballed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cannonball (third-person singular simple present cannonballs, present participle cannonballing, simple past and past participle cannonballed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing."
],
"id": "en-cannonball-en-verb-gVaZS7R7",
"links": [
[
"jump",
"jump"
],
[
"dive",
"dive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The car cannonballed past.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To career; to move rapidly."
],
"id": "en-cannonball-en-verb-HJY4aRl4",
"links": [
[
"career",
"career"
],
[
"rapidly",
"rapidly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To career; to move rapidly."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 100",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "rasen"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkænənˌbɔːl/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-cannonball.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/En-us-cannonball.ogg/En-us-cannonball.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/En-us-cannonball.ogg"
}
],
"word": "cannonball"
}
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Ladino translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maranao translations",
"Terms with Middle English translations",
"Terms with Norman translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"en:Artillery"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cannonball effect"
},
{
"word": "cannonballer"
},
{
"word": "cannonball fungus"
},
{
"word": "cannonball mangrove"
},
{
"word": "cannonball problem"
},
{
"word": "cannonball run"
},
{
"word": "cannonball tree"
},
{
"word": "human cannonball"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cannon",
"3": "ball"
},
"expansion": "cannon + ball",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From cannon + ball from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cannonballs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cannonball (plural cannonballs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "jack-knife"
},
{
"word": "bellyflop"
},
{
"word": "backflop"
},
{
"word": "rip entry"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Artillery",
"en:Military"
],
"glosses": [
"A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"weaponry",
"weaponry"
],
[
"smoothbore",
"smoothbore"
],
[
"cannon",
"cannon"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military, weaponry)",
"A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "solid shot"
},
{
"word": "ball"
},
{
"word": "round shot"
}
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"government",
"military",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"politics",
"tools",
"war",
"weaponry"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Artillery",
"en:Military"
],
"glosses": [
"An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"weaponry",
"weaponry"
],
[
"fused",
"fused"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military, weaponry)",
"An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact."
],
"topics": [
"engineering",
"government",
"military",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"politics",
"tools",
"war",
"weaponry"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Diving"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40"
},
{
"text": "The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired."
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball."
],
"links": [
[
"diving",
"diving#Noun"
],
[
"jump",
"jump"
],
[
"swimming pool",
"swimming pool"
],
[
"leg",
"leg"
],
[
"bent",
"bent"
],
[
"arm",
"arm"
],
[
"wrap",
"wrap"
],
[
"knee",
"knee"
],
[
"splash",
"splash"
],
[
"flight",
"flight"
],
[
"shape",
"shape"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(diving) The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball."
],
"topics": [
"diving",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Rail transportation"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song \"Wabash Cannonball\".",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Something that moves fast, especially a fast train."
],
"links": [
[
"move",
"move"
],
[
"fast",
"fast"
],
[
"train",
"train"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast, especially a fast train."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Tennis"
],
"glosses": [
"A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight."
],
"links": [
[
"tennis",
"tennis"
],
[
"serve",
"serve"
],
[
"ball",
"ball"
],
[
"speed",
"speed"
],
[
"arc",
"arc"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(tennis) A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight."
],
"topics": [
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports",
"tennis"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkænənˌbɔːl/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-cannonball.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/En-us-cannonball.ogg/En-us-cannonball.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/En-us-cannonball.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "kanonkoeël"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hranotʻi gndak",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "հրանոթի գնդակ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "tʻndanotʻi ṙmbagund",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "թնդանոթի ռմբագունդ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "gjulé",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "гюле́"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "砲彈"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "pàodàn",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "炮弹"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kanonkugle"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanonskogel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "tykinkuula"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "kuula"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boulet de canon"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kanonenkugel"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "ágyúgolyó"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "kuglego"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palla di cannone"
},
{
"alt": "ほうだん",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hōdan",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "砲弾"
},
{
"alt": "砲彈",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "potan",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "포탄"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "daepoal",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "대포알"
},
{
"code": "lad",
"lang": "Ladino",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "top"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ǵúle",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ѓу́ле"
},
{
"code": "mrw",
"lang": "Maranao",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "pinang"
},
{
"code": "mrw",
"lang": "Maranao",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "pitonang"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "gunneston"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "balle dé canon"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "boulet dé canon"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "kanonkule"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kanonkule"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "kula armatnia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bala de canhão"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ghiulea"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "púšečnoje jadró",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "пу́шечное ядро́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jadró",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ядро́"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "đule"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bala de cañón"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kanonkula"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "kula"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon",
"word": "gülle"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bommetje"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"word": "pommi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Arschbombe"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "bómba",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бо́мба"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bomba"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "jumping with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bala de canhão"
}
],
"word": "cannonball"
}
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Ido translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Ladino translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maranao translations",
"Terms with Middle English translations",
"Terms with Norman translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"en:Artillery"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "cannon",
"3": "ball"
},
"expansion": "cannon + ball",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From cannon + ball from being a round ball that is fired from a cannon.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cannonballs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "cannonballing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "cannonballed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "cannonballed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cannonball (third-person singular simple present cannonballs, present participle cannonballing, simple past and past participle cannonballed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing."
],
"links": [
[
"jump",
"jump"
],
[
"dive",
"dive"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To jump or dive into water, performing a cannonball landing."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The car cannonballed past.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To career; to move rapidly."
],
"links": [
[
"career",
"career"
],
[
"rapidly",
"rapidly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To career; to move rapidly."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkænənˌbɔːl/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-cannonball.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2d/En-us-cannonball.ogg/En-us-cannonball.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/En-us-cannonball.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to move rapidly",
"word": "rasen"
}
],
"word": "cannonball"
}
Download raw JSONL data for cannonball meaning in All languages combined (14.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). 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.