bi

cục (classifier)
hòn (classifier)
viên (classifier)

Borrowed from French bille (“marble, ball”).

bi cái


colt

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.

der

The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.

1882, The Downside Review, volume 1, page 287:

(figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.

(cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.


fog

hu-conj

Forms in parentheses are somewhat archaic or literary.

This verb has no prefix that could split, despite its first few letters.

fogok (first-person indicative object-indefinite present singular)
fogsz (indicative informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
fog (formal indicative object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fog (indicative object-indefinite present singular third-person)
fogunk (first-person indicative object-indefinite plural present)
fogtok (indicative informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
fognak (formal indicative object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
fognak (indicative object-indefinite plural present third-person)
fogom (first-person indicative object-definite present singular)
fogod (indicative informal object-definite present second-person singular)
fogja (formal indicative object-definite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogja (indicative object-definite present singular third-person)
fogjuk (first-person indicative object-definite plural present)
fogjátok (indicative informal object-definite plural present second-person)
fogják (formal indicative object-definite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
fogják (indicative object-definite plural present third-person)
foglak (first-person indicative object-second-person present singular)
fogtam (first-person indicative object-indefinite past singular)
fogtál (indicative informal object-indefinite past second-person singular)
fogott (formal indicative object-indefinite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogott (indicative object-indefinite past singular third-person)
fogtunk (first-person indicative object-indefinite past plural)
fogtatok (indicative informal object-indefinite past plural second-person)
fogtak (formal indicative object-indefinite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogtak (indicative object-indefinite past plural third-person)
fogtam (first-person indicative object-definite past singular)
fogtad (indicative informal object-definite past second-person singular)
fogta (formal indicative object-definite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogta (indicative object-definite past singular third-person)
fogtuk (first-person indicative object-definite past plural)
fogtátok (indicative informal object-definite past plural second-person)
fogták (formal indicative object-definite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogták (indicative object-definite past plural third-person)
fogtalak (first-person indicative object-second-person past singular)
or a time adverb (first-person future indicative third-person)
or a time adverb (formal future indicative second-person-semantically third-person)
or a time adverb (future indicative informal second-person)
e.g. fogni fog. (first-person future indicative third-person)
e.g. fogni fog. (formal future indicative second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. fogni fog. (future indicative informal second-person)
fogék (first-person object-indefinite singular)
fogál (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
foga (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foga (object-indefinite singular third-person)
fogánk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
fogátok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
fogának (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogának (object-indefinite plural third-person)
fogám (first-person object-definite singular)
fogád (informal object-definite second-person singular)
fogá (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogá (object-definite singular third-person)
fogánk (first-person object-definite plural)
fogátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
fogák (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogák (object-definite plural third-person)
fogálak (first-person object-second-person singular)
e.g. fog vala (first-person third-person)
e.g. fog vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. fog vala (informal second-person)
fogott vala (first-person third-person)
fogott vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
fogott vala (informal second-person)
volt. (first-person third-person)
volt. (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
volt. (informal second-person)
fogandok (first-person object-indefinite singular)
fogandasz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
fogand (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogand (object-indefinite singular third-person)
fogandunk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
fogandotok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
fogandanak (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogandanak (object-indefinite plural third-person)
fogandom (first-person object-definite singular)
fogandod (informal object-definite second-person singular)
fogandja (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogandja (object-definite singular third-person)
fogandjuk (first-person object-definite plural)
fogandjátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
fogandják (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogandják (object-definite plural third-person)
fogandalak (first-person object-second-person singular)
fognék (conditional first-person object-indefinite present singular)
fognál (conditional informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
fogna (conditional formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogna (conditional object-indefinite present singular third-person)
fognánk (conditional first-person object-indefinite plural present)
fognátok (conditional informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
fognának (conditional formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
fognának (conditional object-indefinite plural present third-person)
fognám (conditional first-person object-definite present singular)
fognád (conditional informal object-definite present second-person singular)
fogná (conditional formal object-definite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fogná (conditional object-definite present singular third-person)
fognánk (conditional first-person object-definite plural present)
or fognók (conditional first-person object-definite plural present)
fognátok (conditional informal object-definite plural present second-person)
fognák (conditional formal object-definite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
fognák (conditional object-definite plural present third-person)
fognálak (conditional first-person object-second-person present singular)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional informal past second-person)
e.g. fogott volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
e.g. fogott volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. fogott volna (conditional informal past second-person)
fogjak (first-person object-indefinite present singular subjunctive)
fogj or (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
fogjál (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
fogjon (formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
fogjon (object-indefinite present singular subjunctive third-person)
fogjunk (first-person object-indefinite plural present subjunctive)
fogjatok (informal object-indefinite plural present second-person subjunctive)
fogjanak (formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
fogjanak (object-indefinite plural present subjunctive third-person)
fogjam (first-person object-definite present singular subjunctive)
fogd or (informal object-definite present second-person singular subjunctive)
fogjad (informal object-definite present second-person singular subjunctive)
fogja (formal object-definite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
fogja (object-definite present singular subjunctive third-person)
fogjuk (first-person object-definite plural present subjunctive)
fogjátok (informal object-definite plural present second-person subjunctive)
fogják (formal object-definite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
fogják (object-definite plural present subjunctive third-person)
fogjalak (first-person object-second-person present singular subjunctive)
e.g. fogott légyen (first-person third-person)
e.g. fogott légyen (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. fogott légyen (informal second-person)
fogni (infinitive)
fognom (first-person infinitive singular)
fognod (infinitive informal second-person singular)
fognia (formal infinitive second-person-semantically singular third-person)
fognia (infinitive singular third-person)
fognunk (first-person infinitive plural)
fognotok (infinitive informal plural second-person)
fogniuk (formal infinitive plural second-person-semantically third-person)
fogniuk (infinitive plural third-person)
fogás (noun-from-verb)
fogó
fogott
fogandó (future participle)
fogva
fogván
foghatok (first-person indicative object-indefinite present singular)
foghatsz (indicative informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
foghat (formal indicative object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghat (indicative object-indefinite present singular third-person)
foghatunk (first-person indicative object-indefinite plural present)
foghattok (indicative informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
foghatnak (formal indicative object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatnak (indicative object-indefinite plural present third-person)
foghatom (first-person indicative object-definite present singular)
foghatod (indicative informal object-definite present second-person singular)
foghatja (formal indicative object-definite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatja (indicative object-definite present singular third-person)
foghatjuk (first-person indicative object-definite plural present)
foghatjátok (indicative informal object-definite plural present second-person)
foghatják (formal indicative object-definite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatják (indicative object-definite plural present third-person)
foghatlak (first-person indicative object-second-person present singular)
foghattam (first-person indicative object-indefinite past singular)
foghattál (indicative informal object-indefinite past second-person singular)
foghatott (formal indicative object-indefinite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatott (indicative object-indefinite past singular third-person)
foghattunk (first-person indicative object-indefinite past plural)
foghattatok (indicative informal object-indefinite past plural second-person)
foghattak (formal indicative object-indefinite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghattak (indicative object-indefinite past plural third-person)
foghattam (first-person indicative object-definite past singular)
foghattad (indicative informal object-definite past second-person singular)
foghatta (formal indicative object-definite past second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatta (indicative object-definite past singular third-person)
foghattuk (first-person indicative object-definite past plural)
foghattátok (indicative informal object-definite past plural second-person)
foghatták (formal indicative object-definite past plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatták (indicative object-definite past plural third-person)
foghattalak (first-person indicative object-second-person past singular)
foghaték (first-person object-indefinite singular)
foghatál (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
foghata (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghata (object-indefinite singular third-person)
foghatánk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
foghatátok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
foghatának (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatának (object-indefinite plural third-person)
foghatám (first-person object-definite singular)
foghatád (informal object-definite second-person singular)
foghatá (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatá (object-definite singular third-person)
foghatánk (first-person object-definite plural)
foghatátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
foghaták (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghaták (object-definite plural third-person)
foghatálak (first-person object-second-person singular)
e.g. foghat vala (first-person third-person)
e.g. foghat vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. foghat vala (informal second-person)
foghatott vala (first-person third-person)
foghatott vala (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatott vala (informal second-person)
volt. (first-person third-person)
volt. (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
volt. (informal second-person)
foghatandok (first-person object-indefinite singular)
or fogandhatok (first-person object-indefinite singular)
foghatandasz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
or fogandhatsz (informal object-indefinite second-person singular)
foghatand (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatand (object-indefinite singular third-person)
or fogandhat (formal object-indefinite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
or fogandhat (object-indefinite singular third-person)
foghatandunk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
or fogandhatunk (first-person object-indefinite plural)
foghatandotok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
or fogandhattok (informal object-indefinite plural second-person)
foghatandanak (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatandanak (object-indefinite plural third-person)
or fogandhatnak (formal object-indefinite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
or fogandhatnak (object-indefinite plural third-person)
foghatandom (first-person object-definite singular)
or fogandhatom (first-person object-definite singular)
foghatandod (informal object-definite second-person singular)
or fogandhatod (informal object-definite second-person singular)
foghatandja (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatandja (object-definite singular third-person)
or fogandhatja (formal object-definite second-person-semantically singular third-person)
or fogandhatja (object-definite singular third-person)
foghatandjuk (first-person object-definite plural)
or fogandhatjuk (first-person object-definite plural)
foghatandjátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
or fogandhatjátok (informal object-definite plural second-person)
foghatandják (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatandják (object-definite plural third-person)
or fogandhatják (formal object-definite plural second-person-semantically third-person)
or fogandhatják (object-definite plural third-person)
foghatandalak (first-person object-second-person singular)
or fogandhatlak (first-person object-second-person singular)
foghatnék (conditional first-person object-indefinite present singular)
foghatnál (conditional informal object-indefinite present second-person singular)
foghatna (conditional formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatna (conditional object-indefinite present singular third-person)
foghatnánk (conditional first-person object-indefinite plural present)
foghatnátok (conditional informal object-indefinite plural present second-person)
foghatnának (conditional formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatnának (conditional object-indefinite plural present third-person)
foghatnám (conditional first-person object-definite present singular)
foghatnád (conditional informal object-definite present second-person singular)
foghatná (conditional formal object-definite present second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatná (conditional object-definite present singular third-person)
foghatnánk (conditional first-person object-definite plural present)
or foghatnók (conditional first-person object-definite plural present)
foghatnátok (conditional informal object-definite plural present second-person)
foghatnák (conditional formal object-definite plural present second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatnák (conditional object-definite plural present third-person)
foghatnálak (conditional first-person object-second-person present singular)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
Indicative past forms followed by volna (conditional informal past second-person)
e.g. foghatott volna (conditional first-person past third-person)
e.g. foghatott volna (conditional formal past second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. foghatott volna (conditional informal past second-person)
foghassak (first-person object-indefinite present singular subjunctive)
foghass or (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
foghassál (informal object-indefinite present second-person singular subjunctive)
foghasson (formal object-indefinite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
foghasson (object-indefinite present singular subjunctive third-person)
foghassunk (first-person object-indefinite plural present subjunctive)
foghassatok (informal object-indefinite plural present second-person subjunctive)
foghassanak (formal object-indefinite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
foghassanak (object-indefinite plural present subjunctive third-person)
foghassam (first-person object-definite present singular subjunctive)
foghasd or (informal object-definite present second-person singular subjunctive)
foghassad (informal object-definite present second-person singular subjunctive)
foghassa (formal object-definite present second-person-semantically singular subjunctive third-person)
foghassa (object-definite present singular subjunctive third-person)
foghassuk (first-person object-definite plural present subjunctive)
foghassátok (informal object-definite plural present second-person subjunctive)
foghassák (formal object-definite plural present second-person-semantically subjunctive third-person)
foghassák (object-definite plural present subjunctive third-person)
foghassalak (first-person object-second-person present singular subjunctive)
e.g. foghatott légyen (first-person third-person)
e.g. foghatott légyen (formal second-person-semantically third-person)
e.g. foghatott légyen (informal second-person)
foghatni
foghatnom (first-person singular)
foghatnod (informal second-person singular)
foghatnia (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatnia (singular third-person)
foghatnunk (first-person plural)
foghatnotok (informal plural second-person)
foghatniuk (formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatniuk (plural third-person)
fogható (first-person singular)
foghatatlan (formal second-person-semantically singular third-person)
foghatatlan (singular third-person)
foghatva / foghatván (formal plural second-person-semantically third-person)
foghatva / foghatván (informal plural second-person)
foghatva / foghatván (plural third-person)

From Proto-Ugric *puŋɜ- (“to grasp, to catch”). Cognates include Northern Mansi пувуӈкве (puvuňkve).

inh

Csikós I nem fogta a balösszekötőt, az kiugrott és gólt lőtt.

1960, György Cseuz, “Csak a Csepel Autó nyert”, in Pest Megyei Hírlap, volume 4, number 139:

Csikós I didn’t mark the inside left, who sprang forward and scored a goal.

(transitive, ball games) to mark (to follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending)


tail

Sranan Tongo: tere

From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.

cog

have the world by the tail on a downhill pull

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails

mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails

the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it

trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail

(cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.


hoop

en-noun

hoop (countable and uncountable, plural hoops)

From Middle English hoop, hoope, from Old English hōp (“mound, raised land; in combination, circular object”), from Proto-Germanic *hōpą (“bend, bow, arch”) (compare Saterland Frisian Houp (“hoop”), Dutch hoep (“hoop”), Old Norse hóp (“bay, inlet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kāb- (“to bend”) (compare Lithuanian kabė (“hook”), Old Church Slavonic кѫпъ (kǫpŭ, “hill, island”)). More at camp.

cog

(basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.

aro

basketball: rim part of a basketball net


scissors

en-noun

scissors pl (plural only, attributive scissor)

From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).

They executed a perfect scissors.

(countable, rugby) An attacking move conducted by two players; the player without the ball runs from one side of the ball carrier, behind the ball carrier, and receives a pass from the ball carrier on the other side.


dust

en-verb

dust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)

dusts (present singular third-person)
dusting (participle present)
dusted (participle past)
dusted (past)

From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).
Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.

der

(transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.


count

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.

He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.

(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.


clean

en-verb

clean (third-person singular simple present cleans, present participle cleaning, simple past and past participle cleaned)

cleans (present singular third-person)
cleaning (participle present)
cleaned (participle past)
cleaned (past)

From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).

cog

(intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.

(kevyesti) harjata

(intransitive) to brush lightly in front of a curling rock


lift

Borrowed from British English lift, French lift.

(tennis, table tennis, volleyball) A stroke that gives the ball an upward trajection.


go

en-verb

go (third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (obsolete) yode, past participle gone or (nonstandard) went or (substituted in certain contexts) been)

goes (present singular third-person)
going (participle present)
went (past)
yode (obsolete past)
gone (participle past)
went (nonstandard participle past)
been (participle past)
go (infinitive)

From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Low German gahn (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), Swedish, Norwegian and Danish gå (“to go”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti).

cog

the fucking you get isn't worth the fucking you're going to get

the screwing you get isn't worth the screwing you're going to get

The third wicket went just before lunch.

(intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:

(intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.

Smith bowls ... Jones hits it straight up in the air ... and ... caught! Jones has gone!

(intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.


high

en-adj

high (comparative higher, superlative highest)

higher (comparative)
highest (superlative)

Sranan Tongo: hei

From Middle English high, heigh, heih, from Old English hēah (“high, tall, lofty, high-class, exalted, sublime, illustrious, important, proud, haughty, deep, right”), from Proto-West Germanic *hauh (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (“high”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk- (“to elevate, height”). Cognate with Scots heich (“high”), Saterland Frisian hooch (“high”), West Frisian heech (“high”), Dutch hoog (“high”), Low German hoog (“high”), German hoch (“high”), Swedish hög (“high”), Norwegian høy (“high”), Icelandic hár (“high”), Lithuanian kaukas (“bump, boil, sore”).

der

the pitch (or: the ball) was high

Physically elevated, extending above a base or average level:

(baseball, of a ball) Above the batter's shoulders.


drill

en-verb

drill (third-person singular simple present drills, present participle drilling, simple past and past participle drilled)

drills (present singular third-person)
drilling (participle present)
drilled (participle past)
drilled (past)

From Middle Dutch drillen (“bore, move in a circle”).

der

(baseball) To hit someone with a pitch, especially in an intentional context.


w

Abbreviations.
w
# (stenoscript) the sound sequence /aʊ̯/.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of we.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of were.
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of who and its inflection whom.

ng

and its inflection <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">whom</i>.


dead

en-adj

dead (not generally comparable, comparative deader, superlative deadest)

deader (comparative)
deadest (superlative)

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.

(to have) gone to one's final resting place

(not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.


h

(baseball, in statistics) Abbreviation of hit, the number of hits by a player


box

en-noun

box (plural boxes or (nonstandard, computing, humorous) boxen)

boxes (plural)
boxen (humorous nonstandard plural)

Tok Pisin: bokis

→ Afrikaans: boks

→ Bengali: বাক্স (bakśo)

→ Bulgarian: бокс (boks)

→ Crimean Tatar: boks

→ Danish: boks

→ Dutch: box m

→ Faroese: boks

→ French: box m

→ German: Box f

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: बकस m (bakas), बक्सा m (baksā)

Urdu: بکس m (baks, bakas)

→ Icelandic: box n

→ Indonesian: boks

→ Irish: bosca m

→ Italian: box m

→ Japanese: ボックス (bokkusu)

→ Korean: 박스 (bakseu)

→ Maori: pāka

→ Marwari: बकस (baks, bakas)

→ Nepali: बाकस (bākas)

→ Norman: bosc m

→ Norwegian: boks m

→ Pashto: بکس (baks)

→ Persian: باکس (bâks)

→ Polish: boks m

→ Portuguese: box m

→ Russian: бокс m (boks)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bogsa m, bocsa

→ Spanish: box m

→ Swedish: box c

→ Welsh: bocs

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πῠ́ξος (púxos)
Ancient Greek -ις (-is)
Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís)bor.
Late Latin buxisbor.
Proto-West Germanic *buhsā
Old English box
Middle English box
English box
From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box”) from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”). Doublet of piseog, pyx, and pyxis.
Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).
The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.

rasia

compartment or receptacle for receiving items

ramme

rectangular border around an image, text, etc.

ruutu

small area on a document for a tick mark

tofu

empty box displayed by some computer systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts

His [Rory Bremner's] brilliant story about having his box turned inside out by a delivery from Jeff Thomson – he contrasts it with Andrew Flintoff being hit in the box by Cardigan Connor. [David] Lloyd came up to Flintoff, and said, "Cardigan Connor? You consider it an honour to be hit by Cardigan. Do you remember Jeff Thomson? I was hit amidships by him, and it was not a glancing blow. I was wearing one of those old boxes – you know, the pink ones, like a soap dish. It ended up that everything that was supposed to be inside the box had come outside the box – through the air holes!"

2011, John Duncan, “Rory Bremner”, in Cricket Wonderful Cricket, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:

Senses relating to a three-dimensional object or space.

(cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.

護身

(cricket) hard protector for the genitals

(cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)

As anyone who has ever maintained a baseball or softball diamond would agree, the pitcher's mound and batter's box present a special challenge. […] Batters dig in at the plate, disturbing the soil and making a hole that base runners must slide across when they approach the plate. To withstand the special stresses on these areas, only clay-based soils provide the necessary soil strength. […] [S]ome manufacturers have introduced clay-based soil products for pitcher's mounds and batter's boxes. These products include additives with special binding properties and are specifically designed to resist the stresses applied by the cleats of pitchers and batters.

2003, Jim Puhalla, Jeff Krans, Mike Goatley, “Soil”, in Baseball and Softball Fields: Design, Construction, Renovation, and Maintenance, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part I (Design and Construction), section 3.3c, page 64:

Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space

(baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.

[page 12] Field players wear shoes with short spikes, called cleats, on the soles. Box players wear court shoes, which have grooved rubber soles. […] [page 30] Field goalies have larger nets to protect than goalies in box lacrosse have. Box goalies wear more pads.

2003, John Crossingham, “The Essentials” and “Goaltending”, in Bobbie Kalman, editor, Lacrosse in Action (Sports in Action), New York, N.Y., St. Catharines, Ont.: Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, pages 12 and 30:

(lacrosse, informal) Short for box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).

Poised link-up play between [Michael] Essien and [Frank] Lampard set the Ghanaian midfielder free soon after but his left-footed shot from outside the box was too weak.

2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 – 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2017-12-16:


ball

en-noun

ball (countable and uncountable, plural balls)

→ Cantonese: 波 (bo¹)

→ Japanese: ボール (bōru)

→ Makah: ba·la

→ Yoruba: bọ́ọ̀lù

From Middle English bal, ball, balle, from an unattested Old English *beall, *bealla (“round object, ball”) or Old Norse bǫllr (“a ball”), both from Proto-Germanic *balluz, *ballô (“ball”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“ball, bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Old Saxon ball, Dutch bal, Old High German bal, ballo (German Ball (“ball”); Ballen (“bale”)). Related forms in Romance are borrowings from Germanic. See also balloon, bale.

ампыл

object, generally spherical, used for playing games

туп

ballistics: a solid nonexplosive missile

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

(sports, countable) An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game

(baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.

bola

baseball: a pitch that falls outside the strike zone

(cricket, countable) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.


d

Abbreviations.
* (British penny; old penny): abbreviation of Latin denarii, the name of the corresponding Roman coin.
* (dice): abbreviation of dice
d
# Abbreviation of died or death.
#: William Shakespeare, d 1616
# (stenoscript) Abbreviation of do and inflections doing, did, done and homophone due
#: exception: dz 'does'
# (stenoscript) prefix dis- or des-

ng

or <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">death</i>.


pass

en-verb

pass (third-person singular simple present passes, present participle passing, simple past and past participle passed)

passes (present singular third-person)
passing (participle present)
passed (participle past)
passed (past)

From Middle English passen, from Old French passer (“to step, walk, pass”), from Vulgar Latin *passāre (“step, walk, pass”), derived from Latin passus (“a step”), from pandere (“spread, unfold, stretch”), from Proto-Italic *patnō, from Proto-Indo-European *pth₂noh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread, stretch out”). Cognate with Old English fæþm (“armful, fathom”). More at fathom.
Displaced native Old English gengan.

اِجْتَازَ

to go through any inspection or test successfully

hyväksyttää

to cause to advance by stages of process

20 June 2010, The Guardian, Rob Smyth
Iaquinta passes it coolly into the right-hand corner as Paston dives the other way.

(sports) To make various kinds of movement.

(transitive, soccer) To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.

The Patriots passed on third and long.

(intransitive, American football) To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.


pass

→ Tibetan: སྤ་སེ (spa se)

From Middle English pas, pase, pace, from passen (“to pass”).

Smith was given a pass after Jones' double.


pass

(ball games) pass; a transfer of the ball from one player to another in the same team


run

en-verb

run (third-person singular simple present runs, present participle running, simple past ran, past participle run or (nonstandard, colloquial) ran)

runs (present singular third-person)
running (participle present)
ran (past)
run (participle past)
ran (colloquial nonstandard participle past)
run (infinitive)

From Middle English runnen, rennen (“to run”), alteration (due to the past participle runne, runnen,
yronne) of Middle English rinnen (“to run”), from Old English rinnan, iernan (“to run”) and Old Norse rinna (“to run”), both from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”) (compare also *rannijaną (“to make run”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to boil, churn”).
Cognate with Scots rin (“to run”), West Frisian rinne (“to walk, march”), Dutch rennen (“to run, race”), Alemannic German ränne (“to run”), German rennen (“to run, race”), rinnen (“to flow”), Rhein, Danish rende (“to run”), Swedish ränna (“to run”), Swedish rinna (“to flow”), Icelandic renna (“to flow”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian rend (“to run, run after”). See random.

purjehtia myötätuuleen

to sail a boat with the wind coming from behind

hold with the hare and run with the hounds

run around like a chicken with its head cut off

the course of true love never did run smooth

you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry

Then, on their second possession, Isaiah Ford ran for 11 yards after abandoning a flea flicker. [...] The Patriots ran the ball just 27 times despite averaging 5 yards per carry.

2019 December 29, Chad Finn, “24 thoughts on the Patriots’ loss to the Dolphins”, in Boston Globe:

(American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.

kuljettaa

soccer: to carry a football down the field

Jackson got himself run in the top of the sixth for arguing a borderline strike three call.

(sports, especially baseball) To eject from a game or match.


run

rise

antonym(s) of “horizontal part of a step”

rise

antonym(s) of “horizontal distance of a set of stairs”

(baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.

juoksu

point scored in baseball, cricket or similar games

(cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.

… one of the greatest runs of all time.

Aaron Roberts added an insurance touchdown on a one-yard run.

2003, Jack Seibold, Spartan Sports Encyclopedia, page 592:

In sports
(American football) A running play.


house

en-noun

house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

houses (plural)
housen (dialectal plural)
hice (humorous plural)

Chinese Pidgin English: houso

Nigerian Pidgin: haus

Tok Pisin: haus

Sranan Tongo: oso
→ Dutch: osso

→ Cantonese: house (hau¹ si²)

→ Japanese: ハウス (hausu)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.
The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)

huis

debating chamber for government politicians

a house divided against itself cannot stand

it takes a heap of living to make a house a home

it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home

it takes a lot of living to make a house a home

the call is coming from inside the house

use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house

(curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

(American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.


massé

(billiards, snooker) A stroke made with the cue held vertically that causes a billiard ball to move in an arc.


wire

en-noun

wire (countable and uncountable, plural wires)

→ Gulf Arabic: واير (wāyir)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vaier, wire

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: vaier, wire

→ Swedish: vajer, wire

From Middle English wir, wyr, from Old English wīr (“wire, metal thread, wire-ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *wīraz (“wire”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁iros (“a twist, thread, cord, wire”), from *weh₁y- (“to turn, twist, weave, plait”).

score string

object used to keep the score in billiards

(billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.


field

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

From Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.

veld

land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country

fushë

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.

(baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).

en:sports: area reserved for playing a game

The manager should always choose his own Eleven; and, we have already hinted that fielding, rather than batting, is the qualification. A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any.


field

en-verb

field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)

fields (present singular third-person)
fielding (participle present)
fielded (participle past)
fielded (past)

bat

antonym(s) of “be the team throwing and catching the ball”

Field in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.

(intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

olla ulkovuorossa

to be the team catching and throwing the ball


smoke

en-noun

smoke (countable and uncountable, plural smokes)

From Middle English smoke, from Old English smoca (“smoke”), probably a derivative of the verb (see below). Related to Dutch smook (“smoke”), Middle Low German smôk (“smoke”), dialectal German Schmauch (“smoke”).


stroke

The noun is derived from Middle English strok, stroke (“blow from a weapon, cut”), from Old English strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik, from Proto-Germanic *straikaz (“stroke”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”).
Sense 3.6.2.2 (“the oblique, slash, or virgule (‘/’)”) is a contraction of oblique stroke, a variant of oblique which was originally used in telegraphy.
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* German Streich (“stroke”)
* Middle Low German strēk (“stroke, trick, prank”)
* Scots strak, strake, straik (“blow, stroke”)

isku

one of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished

ход

single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; length of this movement

خَطّ

line or mark made on a surface by an implement for drawing, writing, etc.

(ball games) An act of hitting or trying to hit a ball; also, the manner in which this is done.

(cricket) The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.

slag

(cricket) action of hitting the ball with the bat — see also shot

(golf) A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.

հարված

(golf) single act of striking at the ball with a club; at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player’s score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system

(squash) A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.

stroke

(squash) point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent

(tennis) The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.

հարված

(tennis) hitting of a ball with a racket; movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact


stroke

en-verb

stroke (third-person singular simple present strokes, present participle stroking, simple past and past participle stroked)

strokes (present singular third-person)
stroking (participle present)
stroked (participle past)
stroked (past)

(ball games) To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.

pyyhkäistä

to hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so


short

en-adj

short (comparative shorter, superlative shortest)

shorter (comparative)
shortest (superlative)

tall

antonym(s) of “having a small distance between ends or edges”

tall

antonym(s) of “of a person, of comparatively little height”

long

antonym(s) of “cricket, of a fielder or fielding position, relatively close to the batsman”

long

antonym(s) of “financial position expecting falling value”

From Middle English schort, short, from Old English sċeort, sċort (“short”), from Proto-West Germanic *skurt, from Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Cognates
shirt, skirt, curt, Scots short, schort (“short”), French court, Dutch kort, German kurz, Old High German scurz (“short”) (whence Middle High German schurz), Old Norse skorta (“to lack”) (whence Danish skorte), Albanian shkurt (“short, brief”), Latin curtus (“shortened, incomplete”) and Proto-Slavic *kortъkъ. Doublet of curt. More at shirt.

(cricket, of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.

(cricket, of a ball) bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.


short

(cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.


short

→ Cantonese: short

→ Italian: short

→ Japanese: ショート (shōto)

→ Mandarin: 秀逗 (xiùdou)

→ Hakka: 秀逗 (sió-tò)

→ Maltese: xort

Jones smashes a grounder between third and short.


key

From Middle English keye, kaye, keiȝe, from Old English cǣġ (“key, solution, experiment”) (whence also Scots key and kay (“key”)), of uncertain origin. The only sure cognates are Saterland Frisian Koai (“key”), West Frisian kaai (“key”), and North Frisian kay (“key”). Possibly from Proto-Germanic *kēgaz, *kēguz (“stake, post, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵogʰ-, *ǵegʰ-, *ǵegʰn- (“branch, stake, bush”), which would make it cognate with Middle Low German kāk (“whipping post, pillory”), and perhaps to Middle Dutch keige (“javelin, spear”) and Middle Low German keie, keige (“spear”). For the semantic development, note that medieval keys were simply long poles (ending in a hook) with which a crossbar obstructing a door from the inside could be removed from the outside, by lifting it through a hole in the door. Liberman has noted, however, "The original meaning of *kaig-jo- was presumably '*pin with a twisted end.' Words with the root *kai- followed by a consonant meaning 'crooked, bent; twisted' are common only in the North Germanic languages."

шпи́лка

object used to maintain the orientation between two others

Key in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

He shoots from the top of the key.

(basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.


hammer

From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare). This is traditionally ascribed to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”), but see *hamaraz for further discussion.
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.


pipe

→ Bengali: পাইপ (paip)

desc

→ Gulf Arabic: پيپ (pēp, bēb, “smoking pipe”), پايپ (pāyp, bāyb, “medium of transportation (sense 2.1)”)

→ Hindi: पाइप (pāip)

→ Japanese: パイプ (paipu)

→ Korean: 파이프 (paipeu)

→ Malay: paip

→ Maori: paipa

→ Russian: пайп (pajp)

→ Urak Lawoi': ปาเฮะ (pahëq)

From Middle English pīpe, pype (“hollow cylinder or tube used as a conduit or container; duct or vessel of the body; musical instrument; financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, pipe roll”), from Old English pīpe (“pipe (musical instrument); the channel of a small stream”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīpā. Reinforced by Vulgar Latin *pīpa, from Latin pipire, pipiare, pipare, from pīpiō (“to chirp, peep”), of imitative origin. Doublet of fife.
The “storage container” and “liquid measure” senses are derived from Middle English pīpe (“large storage receptacle, particularly for wine; cask, vat; measure of volume”), from pīpe (above) and Old French pipe (“liquid measure”). In specific contexts, calques similar units of measure such as Portuguese pipa.
The verb is from Middle English pīpen, pypyn (“to play a pipe; to make a shrill sound; to speak with a high-pitched tone”), from Old English pīpian (“to pipe”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

inh

Meanings relating to something resembling a tube.

(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.


stop

From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.

cog

The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.

2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal


右

From Middle Chinese 右 (MC hjuwX).
The goon pronunciation, so likely the initial borrowing.


cycle

→ Japanese: サイクル (saikuru)

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, and wheel (see there for more).

pyörä

bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle etc. — see also bicycle

Jones hit for the cycle in the game.

(baseball) A single, a double, a triple, and a home run hit by the same player in the same game.


壘

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rulʔ): phonetic 畾 (OC *ruːl) + semantic 土 (“dirt”)

Han compound

全壘打

全垒打

盜壘

盗垒


drag

en-noun

drag (countable and uncountable, plural drags)

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).
Verb sense influenced due to association with the noun drag (“that which is hauled or dragged”), related to Low German dragge (“a drag-anchor, grapnel”). Cognate with Danish drægge (“to dredge”), Danish drage (“to draw, attract”), Swedish dragga (“to drag, drag anchor, sweep”), Swedish draga (“to draw, go”), Icelandic draga (“to drag, pull”). Doublet of draw.

cog

(countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.

træk

snooker: large amount of backspin on the cue ball

(billiards) A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.


drag

en-verb

drag (third-person singular simple present drags, present participle dragging, simple past and past participle dragged or (dialectal) drug)

drags (present singular third-person)
dragging (participle present)
dragged (participle past)
dragged (past)
drug (dialectal participle past)
drug (dialectal past)

look as if one has been dragged through a hedge backwards

Arsenal were struggling for any sort of rhythm and Aaron Lennon dragged an effort inches wide as Tottenham pressed for a second.

2012, David Ornstein, BBC Sport, "Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham" http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355, November 17


回

回 (canonical)
kai (romanization)
kwai (romanization)
くわい (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese 回 (MC hwoj).
The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.


stone

en-noun

stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or (UK colloquial, as unit of mass) stone)

stones (plural)
stone (UK colloquial plural)

Sranan Tongo: ston

→ Esperanto: ŝtono

From Middle English ston, stone, stan, from Old English stān, from Proto-West Germanic *stain, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (“to stiffen”).
See also West Frisian stien, Saterland Frisian Steen, Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein; also Russian стена́ (stená, “wall”), Ancient Greek στία (stía, “pebble”), στέαρ (stéar, “tallow”), Albanian shtëng (“hardened or pressed matter”), Sanskrit स्त्यायते (styāyate, “it hardens”)). Doublet of stein.

cog

(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.


home

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.
Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

cog

(lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.


home

2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.


ile

→ Portuguese: ilê

Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *ú-lí. Cognates include Ifè ilé, Itsekiri ulí, Igala únyí, Ede Ije ńné, Olukumi ulé. Many dialects of Southeast Yoruba retain the form ulí.

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(soccer, sports) goal (an area into which the players attempt to put an object)


搓

/t͡sʰaːi̯⁵⁵/

/t͡sʰaːi̯⁵⁵/

(Cantonese, ball games) to pass the ball back and forth


panier

→ English: pannier

Inherited from Old French, from Latin pānārium (“breadbasket”), from pānis (“bread”).

mettre tous ses œufs dans le même panier


penalty

→ Gulf Arabic: بلنتي (balanti)

→ Portuguese: pênalti, penálti

→ Spanish: penalti

→ Swahili: penalti

(soccer) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.


penalty

nl-noun

penalty m (plural penalty's, diminutive penalty'tje n)

penalty's (plural)
penalty'tje (diminutive neuter)


penalty

penalty-uri (plural)
penalty (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
penalty-ul (accusative definite nominative singular)
penalty-uri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
penalty-urile (accusative definite nominative plural)
penalty (indefinite singular)
penalty-ului (definite singular)
penalty-uri (indefinite plural)
penalty-urilor (definite plural)
penalty-ule (singular vocative)
penalty-urilor (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from French penalty or English penalty.


猁

/lei̯²² lei̯²² kɐu̯³⁵/

/lei̯²² lei̯²² kɐu̯³⁵/

Derived from 利狗 (“derogatory term for Liverpool fans”, literally “Liverpool Dogs”), where 利 is the shortened form of 利物浦 (“Liverpool FC”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, soccer, neologism, Internet slang, humorous or derogatory) Liverpool F.C. or its supporters


獌

/maːn²² maːn²² kɐu̯³⁵/

/maːn²² maːn²² kɐu̯³⁵/

Derived from 曼狗 (maan⁶ gau², “derogatory term for Manchester United fans”, literally “Manchester United Dogs”), where 曼 is the shortened form of 曼聯／曼联 (“Manchester United FC”).

(Hong Kong Cantonese, soccer, neologism, Internet slang, humorous or derogatory) Manchester United F.C. or its supporters


garden

en-verb

garden (third-person singular simple present gardens, present participle gardening, simple past and past participle gardened)

gardens (present singular third-person)
gardening (participle present)
gardened (participle past)
gardened (past)

From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin. Displaced Old English wyrttūn.
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.

der

(intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.


game

game (indefinite nominative singular)
games (genitive indefinite singular)
gamet (definite nominative singular)
gamets (definite genitive singular)
game (indefinite nominative plural)
games (genitive indefinite plural)
gamen (definite nominative plural)
gamens (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from English game. Attested since 1900.


球

球 (canonical)
kyū (romanization)
kiu (romanization)
きう (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese 毬／球 (gjuw, “ball, sphere, orb”).


球

いい球


死

/si/ → /ɕi/
Appears to be a conflation of Middle Chinese 死 (MC sijX), with an Old Japanese root that happened to have a similar pronunciation to the Middle Chinese and was probably cognate with 去る (saru, “to go, to go away”). Compare modern Mandarin 死 (sǐ).
In kanji compounds, this would be considered as on'yomi; but on its own, this could be considered as either on'yomi or kun'yomi.

死灰

cold, dead ash; ash remaining after cremation

死界

underworld, world of the dead; blind spot, somewhere out of view

死学

field of study that has no practical use

死菌

dead bacterium or inactive virus used as the basis for a vaccine

死句

plain phrase or line in a poem, containing no implied meaning; ascetic's unsaid word or phrase, due to mental mistake

死蔵

putting something away and never using it

死文

dead law, law that is on the books but never enforced; document that is purely formal and empty of meaning


southpaw

Since home plate is generally in the southwest corner to avoid glare in the batter's eyes, a southpaw's pitching hand is to the south.

(informal, idiomatic) One who is left-handed, especially in sports.


screwball

The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms.

(baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.


put away

en-verb

put away (third-person singular simple present puts away, present participle putting away, simple past and past participle put away)

puts away (present singular third-person)
putting away (participle present)
put away (participle past)
put away (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-put away.wav

(baseball) To catch a fly ball or tag out a baserunner.


hanger

From Middle English hanger, haunger, hangere, equivalent to hang + -er. Compare West Frisian hinger (“hanger”), Dutch hanger (“hanger”), German Hänger and Henker.

(baseball, slang) A hanging pitch; a pitch (typically a breaking ball or slider) that is poorly executed, hence easy to hit.


put out

put out (third-person singular simple present puts out, present participle putting out, simple past and past participle put out)

puts out (present singular third-person)
putting out (participle present)
put out (participle past)
put out (past)

(transitive) To cause something to be out, particularly

(baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.


ABC

The first was the Asian Games, held every 4 years, and the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC), held every 2 years.

2013 August 10, Gilas Pilipinas, “Looking back: When PH ruled Asian basketball”, in Rappler:

The most memorable championship of his life, the 1967 ABC (now Fiba Asia), was also the most dramatic for the Philippines in the entire 1960s.

2017 January 15, Ray Roquero, “Hero of '67 ABC”, in Business Mirror:

The now FIBA Asia Cup was previously called as the FIBA Asia Championships and the older Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Championships.

2017 August 16, “Australia, NZ slug it out for FIBA Asia Cup crown”, in Asia Pacific Report:

Former PBA players pay final respects to Danny Florencio in his final journey home But Florencio would cement his place in local basketball history as the hero in the Philippines’ dramatic 83-80 win over South Korea for the 1967 Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Championship (now known as the FIBA-Asia).

2018 April 5, Gerry Ramos, Sports Interactive Network Philippines:

Asian Basketball Confederation
w:Asian Basketball Confederation

(historical, basketball) Initialism of Asian Basketball Confederation.


spider

en-noun

spider (countable and uncountable, plural spiders)

[ˈspʌɪ̯ɾə(ɹ)]

From Middle English spiþre, spydyr, spider, spiþer, from Old English spīþra (“spider”), from Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”). Mostly displaced attercop (“spider, unpleasant person”), now a dialectal term.

(snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.


kick

→ German: Kick

→ Irish: cic

From Middle English kyken (“to strike out with the foot”), from Old Norse kikna (“to sink at the knees”) and keikja (“to bend backwards”) (compare Old Norse keikr (“bent backwards, the belly jutting forward”)), from Proto-Germanic *kaikaz (“bent backwards”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kī-, *kij- (“to split, dodge, swerve sidewards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH- (“to sprout, shoot”). Compare also Dutch kijken (“to look”), Middle Low German kīken (“to look, watch”). See keek.

cog

(soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.

a long kick up the field.

(soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.


CFC

Chelsea Football Club
w:Chelsea Football Club

(soccer) Initialism of Chelsea Football Club.


裏

裏箔: the application of silk as a screen on metal foil

'underground' pornography showing uncensored genitals. Technically illegal in Japan.


onze

From Old Galician-Portuguese onze, from Latin ūndecim.

o onze inicial

(soccer) eleven (a football team of eleven players)


pitch

From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence Middle English pikken, picken (“to pick, pierce”), modern English pick.

nyökkääminen

rotation angle about the transverse axis

килово клатене

nautical: measure of extent to which a vessel's bow and stern go up and down

The pitch was low and inside.

(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.

(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.


pitch

en-verb

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (obsolete) pight)

pitches (present singular third-person)
pitching (participle present)
pitched (participle past)
pitched (past)
pight (obsolete participle past)
pight (obsolete past)

Spanish: pichar

uhrata

card games: discard a card for some gain

The hurler pitched a curveball.

He pitched high and inside.

en:baseball: to throw the ball toward home plate

(transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.

хвърлям

baseball: throw the ball toward home plate

Bob pitches today.

(intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.

llançar

The ball pitched well short of the batsman.

(intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.


wand

From Middle English wand, wond, from Old Norse vǫndr (“switch, twig”), from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (“rod”), from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to turn, twist, wind, braid”). Cognate with Icelandic vendi (“wand”), Danish vånd (“wand, switch”), German Wand (“wall, septum”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (wandus, “rod”).

der

Without question, he is the best left-footed player I've ever played with. Along with his wand of a left foot he also has great pace and can be as hard as nails.

2013 October 17, Lee McCulloch, Simp-Lee the Best: My Autobiography, Black & White Publishing, →ISBN:

Shortly afterwards, Thomas lined up a corner and with his wand of a right foot, landed it on the head of Campbell to get Everton's second.

2019 February 15, Chris Sweeney, Mad Dog Gravesen, eBook Partnership, →ISBN:

Cresswell also had a wand of a left foot, which was a threat from open play and set-pieces – though his quality in the latter category wasn't used as often in 2015/16 due to Payet's presence.

2021 May 10, Danny Lewis, Boleyn's Farewell, eBook Partnership, →ISBN:

(UK, soccer, figurative, informal) A player's foot used especially skillfully in football.


dummy

мор

bridge: the partner of the winning bidder, who shows his or her hand

(sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.

финт

a feigned pass or play to deceive others in sport


表

Daijisen#Online_search_engines
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Nihon Shoki

Ultimately from Old Japanese. Cognate with 面 (omote). Derived as a compound of 面 (omo, “face”) + 手 (te, “hand; direction, side”), basically meaning "face-wards; facing side".
The term omote in general is attested since the Nihon Shoki of 720. The 表 spelling for this word is attested from roughly 1000.
Cognate with Okinawan 表 (umuti).

compound

(baseball) first half, top (of an inning)


upstairs

en-adj

upstairs (comparative further upstairs, superlative furthest upstairs)

further upstairs (comparative)
furthest upstairs (superlative)

That fastball was upstairs for a ball.

(baseball, informal) Pertaining to a pitched ball that is high, and usually outside the strike zone.


NFL

National Football League
w:National Football League

(American football) Initialism of National Football League.


bicyclette

→ Asturian: bicicleta

→ Basque: bizikleta

→ Catalan: bicicleta

→ Galician: bicicleta

→ Hijazi Arabic: بُسْكُليتة

→ Italian: bicicletta (see there for further descendants)

→ Malagasy: bisikilety

Mauritian Creole: bisiklet

→ Occitan: bicicleta

→ Portuguese: bicicleta, biciclete

→ Romanian: bicicletă

→ Sicilian: picicaletta

→ Spanish: bicicleta (see there for further descendants)

→ Turkish: bisiklet

desc

→ Laz: ბისიქლეთი (bisikleti), ბისიქლეტი (bisikleťi)

→ Yiddish: ביציקלעט (bitsiklet)


bicicleta

Borrowed from French bicyclette, from Latin bi- (“two”) + Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle, wheel”).

der

(soccer) bicycle kick (a kick in which the kicker leans backwards and kicks the ball back over his head)


bicicleta

→ Cebuano: bisikleta

→ Hiligaynon: bisikleta

→ Tagalog: bisikleta

si mi abuela tuviera ruedas, sería una bicicleta

(soccer) step over, pedalada (a dribbling move, or feint, in football (soccer), used to fool a defensive player into thinking the offensive player, in possession of the ball, is going to move in a direction he does not intend to move in)


rook

sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete

ruck (most accents without the foot-strut split)


order

en-noun

order (countable and uncountable, plural orders)

→ Swahili: oda

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-.
Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo.

cog

(cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.

volgorde

cricket: sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat


MSN

Coordinate term: BBC

(soccer, informal) Initialism of Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Neymar, the forward of FC Barcelona between 2014 and 2017.


nick

The noun is derived from Late Middle English nik (“notch, tally; nock of an arrow”). Its further etymology is unknown; a connection with nock (“notch in a bow to hold the bowstring; notch at the rear of an arrow that fits the bowstring; cleft in the buttocks”) has not been clearly established.
The verb appears to be derived from the noun, though the available evidence shows that some of the verb senses predate the noun senses. No connection with words in Germanic languages such as Danish nikke (“to nod”), Middle Dutch nicken (“to bend; to bow”) (modern Dutch knikken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German nicken (“to bend over; to sink”), Middle High German nicken (“to bend; to depress”) (modern German nicken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German knicken (“to bend; to snap”) (modern German knicken (“to bend; to break”), Old Frisian hnekka (“to nod”), and Swedish nicka (“to nod”), has been clearly established.

unknown

further etymology is unknown

cog

Just as a judge may mistakenly believe in the credibility of a clever liar, thereby reaching an 'incorrect decision', an umpire dealing with the blur of a fast bowler and listening for a nick of the bat, or lifting his eyes quickly from the bowler's front foot to follow the flight and pitch of the ball to determine if the batter is out LBW [leg before wicket], can easily be mistaken.

2005, David Fraser, “The Man in White is Always Right (but He is Not Always Neutral)”, in Cricket and the Law: The Man in White is Always Right, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 107:

(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.

Spin is a major feature of real tennis – because of it, some of the slowest shots can be the hardest to return. [...] Strokes played into the "nick" (the corner of the floor and the wall) and aggressive drives into the dedans, the winning gallery, or the grille are unreturnable.

2013 September, “Racket Sports”, in Ray Stubbs (editorial consultant), Ed Wilson, editors, The Sports Book: The Sports, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques, 4th edition, London: Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, page 189:

(real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.


nick

en-verb

nick (third-person singular simple present nicks, present participle nicking, simple past and past participle nicked)

nicks (present singular third-person)
nicking (participle present)
nicked (participle past)
nicked (past)

unknown

further etymology is unknown

Two balls later, I nick one and it carries beautifully to Peter Bowler at first slip, a complete dolly catch, and he drops it.

2013, Ian Botham, with Dean Wilson, “Steve James – Fine Dining”, in Beefy’s Cricket Tales: My Favourite Stories from On and Off the Field, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 145:

(transitive, obsolete) To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

(transitive, cricket) To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.

näpäyttää

(cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of a bat


鏝

Combination of the radical 金 (“money”) and short form of 曼城 (“Manchester City F.C.”) to satirize the football club for poaching high-quality players with high prices.

(Hong Kong Cantonese, soccer, neologism, Internet slang, humorous or derogatory) Manchester City F.C.


flight

en-noun

flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)

From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).

(cricket) The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.

lento

cricket: movement of a spinning ball through the air


flight

en-verb

flight (third-person singular simple present flights, present participle flighting, simple past and past participle flighted)

flights (present singular third-person)
flighting (participle present)
flighted (participle past)
flighted (past)

(cricket, of a spin bowler) To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.


feather

feather (third-person singular simple present feathers, present participle feathering, simple past and past participle feathered)

feathers (present singular third-person)
feathering (participle present)
feathered (participle past)
feathered (past)

From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).
See also West Frisian fear, German Low German Fedder, Dutch veder, veer, German Feder, Yiddish פֿעדער (feder), Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder, Icelandic fjöður, Faroese fjøður, Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør, Norwegian Nynorsk fjør. Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna, Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ).

inh

(snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.

(snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.


cesta

From Latin cista, from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē). Doublet of cista.

colocar todos os ovos em uma única cesta

(basketball) a circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball


閘

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *klaːb, *sɡreːb, *qraːb): semantic 門 (“gate”) + phonetic 甲 (OC *kraːb).

Han compound

左閘／左闸 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― zo² zaap⁶ [Jyutping] ― left fullback


call

en-verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or (archaic) call'd)

calls (present singular third-person)
calling (participle present)
called (participle past)
called (past)
call'd (archaic participle past)
call'd (archaic past)
call (infinitive)

→ Kashubian: kolowac (United States)

From Middle English callen, from Old English ċeallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
Cognates
* Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”),
* German kallen (“to call”)
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

cog

call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel

call someone everything but a child of God

desperate times call for desperate measures

is that what the kids are calling it these days

(heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.

(cricket) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.

huutaa merkki

to shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run

näyttää merkkiä (in pesäpallo with visual cues)

(baseball, cricket) (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).

cridar

to shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch thus avoiding collisions


call

en-noun

call (countable and uncountable, plural calls)

→ Armenian: քոլ (kʻol)

→ Georgian: ქოლი (koli)

the call is coming from inside the house

(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.

(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)


test

→ Azerbaijani: test

→ Catalan: test

→ Czech: test

→ Danish: test

→ Dutch: test

→ Finnish: testi

→ French: test

→ German: Test

→ Hungarian: teszt

→ Italian: test

→ Japanese: テスト (tesuto)

→ Korean: 테스트 (teseuteu)

→ Macedonian: тест (test)

→ Norwegian: test

→ Persian: تست (test)

→ Polish: test

→ Portuguese: teste

→ Romanian: test

→ Russian: тест (test)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: тест

Latin script: test

→ Slovene: test

→ Spanish: test

→ Swedish: test

→ Turkish: test

→ Ukrainian: тест (test)

From Middle English test, teste, from Old French test, teste (“an earthen vessel, especially a pot in which metals were tried”), from Latin testum (“the lid of an earthen vessel, an earthen vessel, an earthen pot”), from *terstus, past participle of the root *tersa (“dry land”). See terra, thirst. The examination sense came via metaphor of the metallurgical sense - the way a metallurgist puts to the test their gold, a teacher may put to the test their students' knowledge.

der

(cricket, normally "Test") A Test match.


area

Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.

2010 December 29, Mark Vesty, “Wigan 2-2 Arsenal”, in BBC:


PG

en-noun

PG (countable and uncountable, plural PGs)

(countable, basketball) Initialism of point guard.


declaration

declaration (countable and uncountable, plural declarations)

/ˌdɛkləˈɹeɪʃən/

From Middle English declaration, declaracion, declaracioun, from Old French declaration (French déclaration), from Latin dēclārātiōnem, accusative of Latin dēclārātiō.

(cricket) The act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed.

διάταγμα

(cricket) act, by the captain of a batting side, of declaring an innings closed


WSW

Western Sydney Wanderers FC
w:Western Sydney Wanderers FC

(soccer) Initialism of Western Sydney Wanderers FC.


line

→ Scottish Gaelic: loidhne

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).
Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.
The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.

lyn

path through two or more points, threadlike mark

lyn

single horizontal row of text on a screen, printed paper, etc.

linja

measure of length, the main division of an inch or its local equivalent

A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.

(cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).

lyn

cricket: horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman

St Johnstone's Liam Craig had to clear off the line before Steven Anderson sent a looping header into his own net for the equaliser on 36 minutes.

2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1-2 St Johnstone”, in BBC Sport:

(baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter's box.


line

en-verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

lines (present singular third-person)
lining (participle present)
lined (participle past)
lined (past)

Jones lined to left in his last at-bat.

(intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.


XI

From translingual XI (“eleven”, Roman numeral).

bor

Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.

2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, The Guardian:

(soccer) A football (soccer) team of eleven players.

(cricket) A cricket team of eleven players.


鬼

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (鬼):
* → Japanese: 鬼(き) (ki)
* → Korean: 귀(鬼) (gwi)
* → Vietnamese: quỷ (鬼)

→ Thai: กุ๊ย (gúi)

Characters in the same phonetic series (鬼) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a kneeling man or figure with an ugly face (甶). The ugly face could be a mask. The lower right “dot” is a small 厶; it is a residual tail that was added later – compare 离. Related to 畏 (variant 𠂽), which originally depicts a ghost standing with a stick in hand.
Compare 異 (“different, strange”), in which the 田 also derives from a face and indicates a mask. Compare also 禺, in which the top component represents either a mask or a monkey's head.
Unknown. May be related to:
* 威 (OC *qul, “to overawe, to terrorise”) with k-nominalisation and endoactive tone B, lit. "the thing which is doing the overawing" (Childs-Johnson, 1995 apud Schuessler, 2007; Baxter & Sagart, 2014), or
* 歸 (OC *klul, “to return”) (Shuowen Jiezi https://ctext.org/shuo-wen-jie-zi/gui-bu?searchu=%E6%AD%B8&searchmode=showall#result; Liezi https://ctext.org/liezi/tian-rui?searchu=%E9%AC%BC%E6%AD%B8%E4%B9%9F&searchmode=showall#result; Carr, 1985 apud Schuessler, 2007), yet Baxter & Sagart (2014) consider this connection, while semantically plausible, to be a folk etymology; as 鬼 (OC *k-ʔujʔ) and 歸 (OC *[k]ʷəj) had different Old Chinese rhymes & thus were likely unrelated.
See also 詭 (OC *krolʔ, “to deceive; peculiar”).

Han etyl

(Cantonese, ball games) opponent trying to steal the ball


飛

(baseball) Short for 飛球 (hikyū): a fly ball


tri

(soccer, preceded by "el") the Mexican national football team


tri

(soccer, preceded by "la") the Ecuador national football team


safety

en-noun

safety (countable and uncountable, plural safeties)

Inherited from Middle English savete, from Old French sauveté, from earlier salvetet, from Medieval Latin salvitās, salvitātem, from Latin salvus.

He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.

(American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.

safety

American football: instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone

The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.

(American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.

Boy wondered about that bunt. He had a notion Fowler would commit himself soon because time was on the go. But Fowler didn’t, making it another sweep of three Pirates. He had thus far given up only two safeties.

1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, Time Life Books, published 1966, page 225:


maximum

(snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break.

(colloquial, cricket) A scoring shot for 6 runs.


fireball

/ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔl/

Chelyabinsk meteor
Nevada Test Site
Operation Upshot–Knothole

The noun is derived from fire (noun) + ball (noun). The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

tulipallo

bag or ball filled with combustible material; (heraldry) charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell

(baseball) Synonym of fastball (“a high-speed pitch of a baseball”).


fireball

en-verb

fireball (third-person singular simple present fireballs, present participle fireballing, simple past and past participle fireballed)

fireballs (present singular third-person)
fireballing (participle present)
fireballed (participle past)
fireballed (past)

/ˈfaɪəɹˌbɔl/

(baseball) To pitch a baseball very fast.


error

en-noun

error (countable and uncountable, plural errors)

From Middle English errour, from Anglo-Norman errour, borrowed from Old French error, from Latin error (“wandering about”), infinitive of errō (“to wander, to err”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹 (airzei, “error”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (airzjan, “to lead astray”). More at err.

誤審

appellate law: one or more mistakes in a trial

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Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 495. Error

(baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.

virhe

baseball: play which is scored as having been made incorrectly


slash

en-verb

slash (third-person singular simple present slashes, present participle slashing, simple past and past participle slashed)

slashes (present singular third-person)
slashing (participle present)
slashed (participle past)
slashed (past)

Originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Possibly from French esclachier (“to break”). Used in the Wycliffe Bible as slascht (see 1 Kings 5:18) but otherwise unattested until 16th century. Conjunctive use from various applications of the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩. See also slash fiction.

To strike violently and randomly, particularly:

To strike violently and randomly
To swing wildly at the ball.


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

He threw a hook in the dirt.

Senses relating to sports.
(baseball) A curveball.

(basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.

(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.


hook

hook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)

hooks (present singular third-person)
hooking (participle present)
hooked (participle past)
hooked (past)

"Hey, Sara! Watch this hook shot!" he shouted as he hooked the ball right through the net—swish!

2012, Roland Johnson, Jeremya Jones: A King's Kid, page 93:

(cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.

(rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).

The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.

2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:

(soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.


screw

From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.
more on the etymology of screw
Old French escroue (whence Medieval Latin scrofa (“nut, screwhole”)), is believed to be an adaptation of Latin scrōfa (“sow, female pig”); but this development is not found in other Romance languages. (For change in meaning, compare also Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both ‘sow; screw nut’, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy).
Old Dutch *scrūva possibly derives from Proto-Germanic *skrūbō (“screw”), from *skru- (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keru-, *(s)ker- (“to cut”), and is related to German Schraube (“screw”), Low German schruve, schruwe (“screw”), Dutch schroef (“screw”), West Frisian skroef (“screw”), Danish skrue (“screw”), Swedish skruv (“screw, peg”), Icelandic skrúfa (“screw”).
Compare also Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Calabrese scrufina (“screw nut”), which may be borrowings of the Old French word, or parallel developments.

gloss

"screw"; whence Middle Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="dum">schruyve</i> (“screw”)

cog

the first turn of the screw pays all debts


screw

en-verb

screw (third-person singular simple present screws, present participle screwing, simple past and past participle screwed)

screws (present singular third-person)
screwing (participle present)
screwed (participle past)
screwed (past)

have one's head screwed on the right way

would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on

The visitors could have added an instant second, but Rooney screwed an ugly attempt high into Hennessey's arms after Berbatov cleverly found the unmarked England striker.

2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:

(soccer, transitive) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.

(billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.


tool

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”), equivalent to taw (“to prepare”) + -le (agent suffix). Cognate with Scots tuil (“tool, implement, instrument, device”), Icelandic tól (“tool”), Faroese tól (“tool, instrument”). Related to Old English tāwian (“to make, prepare, or cultivate”); see taw, and tow ("fibres used for spinning").

cog

a five-tool player

When asked what he liked about Youk [Kevin Youkilis], former Boston scout Matt Haas says, "At first glance, not a lot." (Mind you, this is one of the few scouts who actually wanted the kid.) "He was unorthodox," says Haas, who now scouts for the Arizona Diamondbacks. "He had an extreme crouch—his thighs were almost parallel to the ground. And he was heavier than he is now. But the more I watched him, the more I just thought, Throw the tools out the window. This guy can play baseball."

2007 November 7, Mark Bechtel, “"there's Something Fun About Yooouuuk"”, in Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 2008-10-14:

(baseball) A particular skill pertaining to baseball (such as hitting, running, etc.).


tool

en-verb

tool (third-person singular simple present tools, present participle tooling, simple past and past participle tooled)

tools (present singular third-person)
tooling (participle present)
tooled (participle past)
tooled (past)

(transitive, volleyball) To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.


mast

From French masse, with -t probably after Etymology 1, above.

Godfrey thus conquered, pretended to lose his temper, curs'd his own ill luck, swore that the table had a cast, and that the balls did not run true, changed his mast, and with great warmth challenged his enemy to double his sum.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(obsolete, billiards) A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball.


york

york (third-person singular simple present yorks, present participle yorking, simple past and past participle yorked)

yorks (present singular third-person)
yorking (participle present)
yorked (participle past)
yorked (past)

(cricket) to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.


palomita

From paloma (“dove”) + -ita (diminutive suffix).

cuello palomita

wing collar, a type of shirt collar often used with tuxedo


lunch

en-noun

lunch (countable and uncountable, plural lunches)

→ Bengali: লাঞ্চ (lanco)

→ Cantonese: lunch

→ Dutch: lunch

→ French: lunch

→ German: Lunch

→ Japanese: ランチ (ranchi)

→ Korean: 런치 (reonchi)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: lunsj

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: lunsj

→ Polish: lunch

→ Portuguese: lanche

→ Russian: ланч (lanč), ленч (lenč)

→ Spanish: lonche

→ Swedish: lunch

→ Ukrainian: ланч (lanč)

→ Yiddish: לאָנטש (lontsh)

Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumable an extension on the pattern of puncheon (“cask”) and truncheon (“cudgel”). But earliest found forms include lunshin and lunching, which are equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing possibly later modified to simulate a French origin.
The sense “light meal” is first attested for luncheon in 1652 and for lunch in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the former.
Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche (“light midday meal”) (see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”).

cog

there ain't no such thing as a free lunch

(cricket) A break in play between the first and second sessions.