- See also: football (ball)
Balls are objects typically used in games. A football is a Ball used to play one of the various sports known as Football. They are usually spherical but can be ovoid. "Globose" redirects here See also Globose nucleus. A sphere (from Greek σφαίρα - sphaira, "globe In geometry an oval or ovoid (from Latin ovum, 'egg' is any Curve resembling an egg or an Ellipse. In most games using balls, the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players. A ball game is a Game played with a Ball. Someone who plays a ball game is known as a ballplayer. Balls can also be used for simpler activities, such as catch, marbles and juggling. A marble is a small spherical toy usually made from Glass, Clay, or Agate. Juggling is a physical human skill involving the movement of objects usually through the air for entertainment (see Object manipulation) Balls made from hard-wearing metal are used in engineering applications to provide frictionless bearings, known as ball bearings. The M acro E xpansion T emplate A ttribute L anguage complements TAL, providing macros which allow the reuse of code across Engineering is the Discipline and Profession of applying technical and scientific Knowledge and A ball bearing is an engineering term referring to a type of Rolling-element bearing which uses Balls to maintain the separation between the moving parts
Although many types of balls are today made from rubber, this form was unknown outside the Americas until after the voyages of Columbus. Christopher Columbus (1451 &ndash May 20 1506 was an Italian Navigator, colonizer The Spanish were the first Europeans to see bouncing rubber balls (albeit solid and not inflated) which were employed most notably in the Mesoamerican ballgame. The Mesoamerican ballgame was a Sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the Pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica. Balls used in various sports in other parts of the world prior to Columbus were made from other materials such as animal bladders or skins, stuffed with various materials.
Etymology
The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in Laȝamon's Brut, or Chronicle of Britain in the phrase, "Summe heo driuen balles wide ȝeond Þa feldes. " The word came from the Middle English bal (inflected as ball-e, -es, in turn from Old Norse böllr (pronounced [bɔlːr]; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, (whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic *ballon (weak masculine), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic *ballôn (weak feminine). Middle English is the name given by Historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of Old Norse is the North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age Proto-Germanic, or Common Germanic, is the hypothetical common ancestor ( Proto-language) of all the Germanic languages such as modern English Cognates in Linguistics are words that have a common origin They may occur within a language such as shirt and skirt as two English words descended from No Old English representative of any of these is known. (The answering forms in Old English would have been beallu, -a, -e -- compare bealluc, ballock. ) If ball- was native in Germanic, it may have been a cognate with the Latin foll-is in sense of a "thing blown up or inflated. " In the later Middle English spelling balle the word coincided graphically with the French balle "ball" and "bale", which has hence been erroneously assumed to be its source. French balle (but not boule) is assumed to be of Germanic origin, itself, however.
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See also
A cricket ball is a hard solid Ball used to play Cricket. Manufacture Cricket balls are made from a core of cork, which is layered A baseball is a Ball used primarily in the sport of the same name Baseball. A basketball is an inflated spherical Ball used in the game of Basketball. Billiard balls are used in Cue sports, such as Carom billiards, pool, and Snooker. A lacrosse ball is the solid rubber ball that is used to play Lacrosse. Australian (rules football, or simply known as football, footy or Aussie rules, is a Team sport played between two teams of 18 players A tennis ball is a ball designed for the sport of Tennis, approximately 2 A football is a Ball used to play one of the various sports known as Football. Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short A sliotar (or sliothar - may derive from Irish sliabh, meaning "mountain" and Hurling (in Irish, iománaíocht or iomáint) is an outdoor team Sport of ancient Gaelic origin administered by the Gaelic A golf ball is a Ball designed to be used in the game of Golf. Softball is a team Sport popular especially in the United States. A football is a Ball used to play one of the various sports known as Football. A penny floater (sometimes known as a Penny Swerver or a Fly-away is a kind of cheap football commonly used by children in the western world Prisoner Ball is a game similar to Volleyball. The object of the Game is to get the opposing Team out by throwing the prisoner Ball while calling A shuttlecock' is a high- drag Projectile used in the sport of Badminton.Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic