receive

en-verb

receive (third-person singular simple present receives, present participle receiving, simple past and past participle received)

receives (present singular third-person)
receiving (participle present)
received (participle past)
received (past)

From Middle English receiven, from Old French receivre, from Latin recipere (“take back, accept, etc.”), from re- (“back”) + capiō (“to take”); see capacious. Compare conceive, deceive, perceive. Displaced native Middle English terms in -fon/-fangen (e.g. afon, anfon, afangen, underfangen, etc. "to receive" from Old English -fōn), native Middle English thiggen (“to receive”) (from Old English þiċġan), and non-native Middle English aquilen, enquilen (“to receive”) (from Old French aquillir, encueillir).

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(sports) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.

(tennis, badminton, squash) To be in a position to hit back a service.


balk

From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Cognate with Dutch balk (“balk”), German Balken (“balk”), Italian balcone (“balcony”).

(badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.


rally

From Middle French rallier (French rallier), from Old French ralier, from Latin prefix re- + ad + ligare (“to bind; to ally”).

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(squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.

table tennis; badminton; table tennis; badminton


slice

en-verb

slice (third-person singular simple present slices, present participle slicing, simple past and past participle sliced)

slices (present singular third-person)
slicing (participle present)
sliced (participle past)
sliced (past)

From Middle English sclise, sklise, from Old French esclice, esclis (“a piece split off”), deverbal of esclicer, esclicier (“to splinter, split up”), from Frankish *slitjan (“to split up”), from Proto-Germanic *slitjaną, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to split, tear apart”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyd- (“to rend, injure, crumble”). Akin to Old High German sliz, gisliz (“a tear, rip”), Old High German slīzan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split up”), modern French éclisse. More at slite, slit.

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no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney

(transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.


umpire

From a Middle English rebracketing of a noumpere as an oumpere, from Old French nonper (“odd number, not even (as a tie-breaking arbitrator)”), from non (“not”) + per (“equal”), from Latin par (“equal”). Doublet of nonpareil.

съдия

an official who oversees a game or match

(tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.


shuttlecock

en-noun

shuttlecock (countable and uncountable, plural shuttlecocks)

From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).

Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.

c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington; […], published 1812, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 50:

Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock […]

1830, Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Bertha's visit to her uncle in England (volume 3, page 105)

(uncountable, dated) The game of badminton.


badminton racket

badminton racket (plural badminton rackets)

A light, long-handled racket, used to hit a shuttlecock in the game of badminton.


service line

(tennis, badminton) The line, in tennis and similar sports, from behind which the ball is initially served and which the feet must not cross when serving.


drop shot

deixada

a lightly struck shot that lands just in play

(sports) In sports such as badminton, squash, tennis and volleyball, a lightly-struck shot that just lands into play.


service game

(tennis, badminton, ping pong) A game where one serves, as opposed to receiving.


badminton player

badminton player (plural badminton players)

A person who plays badminton, especially professionally.


badminton court

badminton court (plural badminton courts)

(sports) an indoor court on which the game of badminton is played.


para-badminton

An adaptation of the sport of badminton for athletes with a physical disability.