Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective shaped like a sphere.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the shape of a sphere or ball
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Examples
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Then there is the Dragon Ball $8; Miko told me that in Japan they often eat takoyaki, which is a ball-shaped pancake stuffed with boiled octopus.
Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip Jay Weston 2011
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Then there is the Dragon Ball $8; Miko told me that in Japan they often eat takoyaki, which is a ball-shaped pancake stuffed with boiled octopus.
Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip Jay Weston 2011
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Then there is the Dragon Ball $8; Miko told me that in Japan they often eat takoyaki, which is a ball-shaped pancake stuffed with boiled octopus.
Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip Jay Weston 2011
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Shouldn't even speck-sized ball-shaped persons be given urgent lifesaving attention?
Valerie Tarico: What Is a Person? Valerie Tarico 2011
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Sotheby's expert Leslie Keno said this chest bears several elements of Mr. Townsend's signature style, from the shell-shaped wedge of mahogany that fans out beneath its bottom middle drawer to the lifelike talons gripping its ball-shaped feet.
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Then there is the Dragon Ball $8; Miko told me that in Japan they often eat takoyaki, which is a ball-shaped pancake stuffed with boiled octopus.
Jay Weston: Shiro Kuro -- A Tokyo-style Gastro-pub on the Sunset Strip Jay Weston 2011
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Some fans wore USA or England T-shirts or sported soccer ball-shaped hats, but Dean Howarth, 45, and Jeff Jones, 33, physics teachers from Arlington County, arrived in blue colonial frock coats and tri-corner hats.
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The steps down into the lounge were lined with circus-like models wearing Esther Williams bathing caps and colored puffy, ball-shaped dresses that lit up with LED lights.
Lots of Stars, a Little Shine Marshall Heyman 2010
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It is a children's toy, a figure with a ball-shaped bottom that always lands upright no matter how hard you throw it or in which direction it falls.
Gérard Houllier learns to roll with the punches in face of flak 2010
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One poor person gets strapped into a ball-shaped cage and rolled down a hill towards a set of pins.
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