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"ref": "1928 February, “News Notes. A Successful College Play Day.”, in James Huff McCurdy, editor, American Physical Education Review, volume XXXIII, number 2 (number 234 overall), Springfield, Mass.: American Physical Education Association, →OCLC, page 124, column 2",
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"ref": "1946–1947, “[Windward Islands.] St. Lucia.”, in The West Indies Year Book: […], London: Thomas Skinner & Co., →OCLC, page 389, column 2",
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"ref": "1999, Michael Hill, “Training Methods”, in PE for You: Teacher Resource Pack, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes Publishers, part 3 (Health, Safety and Training), page 83, column 2",
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"ref": "2005, Liz Ellis, “A Few Words from Liz”, in Netball Heroes, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, page 1",
"text": "[W]hen I asked each person to nominate the best thing about netball, the overwhelming response was the friendships they had made. Netball friendships have carried people through form slumps, heartbreaking losses and personal tragedies, and it is these friendships that make the wins and the highs so much sweeter.",
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"ref": "2010, Anna Sheryn, Chris Sheryn, “Movement and Footwork”, in 101 Youth Netball Drills: Age 12 to 16, 2nd edition, London: A & C Black, published 2012, page 35",
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"ref": "2012, Roger Gomm, “Qualitative Causal Analysis and the Fallacies of Composition and Division: The Example of Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Achievement”, in Barry Cooper, Judith Glaesser, Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley, Challenging the Qualitative–Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, part I (Problems with Quantitative and Qualitative Research), page 119",
"text": "It may be that this situation arose because of differential investment or more competent coaching in girls' as opposed to boys' sports in that school, but it is even more likely that it arose because of the composition, coaching, commitment, and so on of all other net ball teams in their league on the one hand, and all other soccer teams in their league on the other.",
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"ref": "2012, Gary D. Kinchin, “Learning Sport Education through Reflective Inquiry: Four Case Studies”, in Peter Hastie, editor, Sport Education: International Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 171",
"text": "[A]round half the boys were of the view that roles in netball were suitable for both genders while one-third of boys indicated that all roles in netball were for girls only, with the exception of the warm-up coach. Girls were mostly of the view that only the equipment manager was more suitable for boys in netball.",
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"word": "投球"
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"word": "දැල්පන්දු"
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"text": "Over the years he had stitched Dr. Bailey's black bag, Paul's pram hood, the net balls at the village school, and saddles and bridles for Joan and Ruth when they were small, and kept in trim the footwear that passed and repassed his window as the various owners went about their business on Thrush Green.",
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"ref": "1992, Eileen Molver, chapter 1, in Rod Nesbitt, editor, Lindiwi Finds a Way, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Gaborone, Botswana: Heinemann Educational Publishers, page 2",
"text": "'If we could find our netball, you could borrow it,' she said softly. / 'A netball!' he said in disgust. 'A netball is no use. It is not heavy enough. But I would borrow it,' he added quickly. 'It would be better than no ball at all.'",
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"ref": "2013, Sarah Alderson, The Sound, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, published May 2015, page 273",
"text": "I've never been hit before in my life, except by a netball in PE once, so it takes me a while to realize that my head hasn't just rocketed off the top of my spine but is in fact still attached to the rest of me and that the ringing noise is just the repercussion of the blow sounding in my ears and not an orchestral score blasting from the stereo.",
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"ref": "2013, Roy McMurtry, “Sport as a Development Tool in the Commonwealth”, in Memoirs and Reflections, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, part 4 (At the Court of St James and Home Again), page 438",
"text": "In the MYSA program, organizers made an arrangement with local authorities to provide the young people with access to soccer balls, net balls, and playing fields.",
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"ref": "1913 January 15, “Personal and Official”, in C. W. Hastings, editor, The Gas Engineer’s Magazine and Gas Industries, volume XXIX, number 441, London: J. G. Hammond & Co., →OCLC, page 13, column 2",
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"ref": "1928 February, “News Notes. A Successful College Play Day.”, in James Huff McCurdy, editor, American Physical Education Review, volume XXXIII, number 2 (number 234 overall), Springfield, Mass.: American Physical Education Association, →OCLC, page 124, column 2",
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"ref": "1946–1947, “[Windward Islands.] St. Lucia.”, in The West Indies Year Book: […], London: Thomas Skinner & Co., →OCLC, page 389, column 2",
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"ref": "1999, Michael Hill, “Training Methods”, in PE for You: Teacher Resource Pack, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes Publishers, part 3 (Health, Safety and Training), page 83, column 2",
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"ref": "2005, Liz Ellis, “A Few Words from Liz”, in Netball Heroes, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, page 1",
"text": "[W]hen I asked each person to nominate the best thing about netball, the overwhelming response was the friendships they had made. Netball friendships have carried people through form slumps, heartbreaking losses and personal tragedies, and it is these friendships that make the wins and the highs so much sweeter.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Anna Sheryn, Chris Sheryn, “Movement and Footwork”, in 101 Youth Netball Drills: Age 12 to 16, 2nd edition, London: A & C Black, published 2012, page 35",
"text": "Another key skill in netball is the art of dodging; a quick, decisive change of direction to out-manoeuvre or wrong-foot a defender and be free to receive a pass or create a space to move into.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Roger Gomm, “Qualitative Causal Analysis and the Fallacies of Composition and Division: The Example of Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Achievement”, in Barry Cooper, Judith Glaesser, Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley, Challenging the Qualitative–Quantitative Divide: Explorations in Case-focused Causal Analysis, London, New York, N.Y.: Continuum International Publishing Group, part I (Problems with Quantitative and Qualitative Research), page 119",
"text": "It may be that this situation arose because of differential investment or more competent coaching in girls' as opposed to boys' sports in that school, but it is even more likely that it arose because of the composition, coaching, commitment, and so on of all other net ball teams in their league on the one hand, and all other soccer teams in their league on the other.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Gary D. Kinchin, “Learning Sport Education through Reflective Inquiry: Four Case Studies”, in Peter Hastie, editor, Sport Education: International Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, page 171",
"text": "[A]round half the boys were of the view that roles in netball were suitable for both genders while one-third of boys indicated that all roles in netball were for girls only, with the exception of the warm-up coach. Girls were mostly of the view that only the equipment manager was more suitable for boys in netball.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player."
],
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"women",
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],
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"team sport",
"team sport"
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"derive",
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"basketball",
"basketball"
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[
"seven",
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[
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"player"
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"side",
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"attempt",
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[
"score",
"score#Verb"
],
[
"goal",
"goal"
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"passing",
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"ball",
"ball#Noun"
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"throwing",
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[
"opponent",
"opponent"
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[
"raised",
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[
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[
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[
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[
"possession",
"possession"
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"(uncountable) A (usually women's) team sport derived from basketball, with seven players on each side who attempt to score goals by passing a ball and throwing it into the opponent's goal, which is a raised hoop with a net at one end of the playing area. Unlike basketball, a player in possession of the ball cannot move until the ball is passed to another player."
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"uncountable"
]
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"English countable nouns",
"English terms with quotations"
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"ref": "1959, “Miss Read” [pseudonym; Dora Jessie Saint], “Sam Curdle is Tempted”, in Thrush Green, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 1960, →OCLC, part 2 (Afternoon), page 122",
"text": "Over the years he had stitched Dr. Bailey's black bag, Paul's pram hood, the net balls at the village school, and saddles and bridles for Joan and Ruth when they were small, and kept in trim the footwear that passed and repassed his window as the various owners went about their business on Thrush Green.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1992, Eileen Molver, chapter 1, in Rod Nesbitt, editor, Lindiwi Finds a Way, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Gaborone, Botswana: Heinemann Educational Publishers, page 2",
"text": "'If we could find our netball, you could borrow it,' she said softly. / 'A netball!' he said in disgust. 'A netball is no use. It is not heavy enough. But I would borrow it,' he added quickly. 'It would be better than no ball at all.'",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Sarah Alderson, The Sound, New York, N.Y.: Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, published May 2015, page 273",
"text": "I've never been hit before in my life, except by a netball in PE once, so it takes me a while to realize that my head hasn't just rocketed off the top of my spine but is in fact still attached to the rest of me and that the ringing noise is just the repercussion of the blow sounding in my ears and not an orchestral score blasting from the stereo.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Roy McMurtry, “Sport as a Development Tool in the Commonwealth”, in Memoirs and Reflections, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, part 4 (At the Court of St James and Home Again), page 438",
"text": "In the MYSA program, organizers made an arrangement with local authorities to provide the young people with access to soccer balls, net balls, and playing fields.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The ball used in this sport."
],
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"(countable) The ball used in this sport."
],
"tags": [
"countable"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈnɛtbɔːl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈnɛtˌbɔl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "net ball"
},
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"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "net-ball"
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{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "netbal"
},
{
"alt": "kura(t) aš-šabaka",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "كُرَة الشَّبَكَة"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "neṭbol",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "নেটবল"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "netbol"
},
{
"code": "dtp",
"lang": "Central Dusun",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "nitbuul"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "tau⁴ kau⁴",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "投球"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "籃網球"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lánwǎngqiú",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "篮网球"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "netbal"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "verkkopallo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "netball"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Netball"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "nétmpol",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "νέτμπολ"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "נטבול"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "netball"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "necclabda"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "hálólabda"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "bola jaring"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "líonpheil"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nettobōru",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "ネットボール"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "netbol",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "нетбол"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "neteubol",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "네트볼"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "netbols"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "netbolas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nétbol",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "не́тбол"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "bola jaring"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "netipōro"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "poitarawhiti"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"roman": "neṭbŏl",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "नेटबॉल"
},
{
"code": "nso",
"lang": "Northern Sotho",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "kgwele ya diatla"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nettball"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nettball"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "netball"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "netból",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нетбо́л"
},
{
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "netipolo"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "ball-lìn"
},
{
"code": "si",
"lang": "Sinhalese",
"roman": "dælpandu",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "දැල්පන්දු"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "netiboli"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"class-3",
"class-4"
],
"word": "mpira wa pete"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"dated"
],
"word": "korgboll"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "netball"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "valaip pantāṭṭam",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "வலைப் பந்தாட்டம்"
},
{
"code": "tcy",
"lang": "Tulu",
"roman": "neṭŭ bālŭ",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "ನೆಟ್ ಬಾಲ್"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "netbol"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "netbol",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нетбол"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "bóng lưới"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pêl-rwyd"
},
{
"code": "xh",
"lang": "Xhosa",
"sense": "team sport derived from basketball",
"word": "ibhola yomnyazi"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "ball used in the sport",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "netbal"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ball used in the sport",
"word": "verkkopallo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "netbólʹnyj mjač",
"sense": "ball used in the sport",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нетбо́льный мяч"
}
],
"word": "netball"
}
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"msg": "unrecognized head form: ball games",
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"section": "English",
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"title": "netball",
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