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FOOTBALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
Synonyms:
football; football game
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("football" is a kind of...):
contact sport (a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players)
field game (an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions)
Meronyms (parts of "football"):
half (one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval)
Domain member category:
complete; nail (complete a pass)
kick (make a goal)
place-kick (score (a goal) by making a place kick)
quarterback (play the quarterback)
fullback (play the fullback)
line up (take one's position before a kick-off)
quarter ((football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided)
winger ((sports) player in wing position)
wingback ((football) the person who plays wingback)
tight end ((football) an offensive end who lines up close to the tackle)
tackle (seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball)
drop-kick; dropkick (drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal)
drop-kick; dropkick (make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick)
ground (throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage)
return (make a return)
broken-field (varying in direction suddenly and frequently)
completed (caught)
uncompleted (not caught or not caught within bounds)
running (of advancing the ball by running)
pass; passing (of advancing the ball by throwing it)
ball-hawking (used of a player skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit)
punt; punting ((football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground)
place-kicking; place kick ((sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking)
dropkick ((football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground)
fake; juke ((football) a deceptive move made by a football player)
football score (the score in a football game)
kickoff ((football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score)
professional football (football played for pay)
yard marker ((football) a marker indicating the yard line)
midfield ((sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse))
back ((football) a person who plays in the backfield)
ball carrier; runner ((football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play)
center; snapper ((football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback)
end ((football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage)
fullback ((football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team)
halfback ((football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position)
forward passer; passer ((football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass)
place-kicker; placekicker ((football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal)
punter ((football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground)
field general; quarterback; signal caller ((football) the person who plays quarterback)
running back ((football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage)
rusher ((football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball)
split end ((football) an offensive end who lines up at a distance from the other linemen)
tailback ((American football) the person who plays tailback)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "football"):
American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)
professional football (football played for pay)
rugby; rugby football; rugger (a form of football played with an oval ball)
association football; soccer (a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal)
Derivation:
footballer (an athlete who plays American football)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The inflated oblong ball used in playing American football
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("football" is a kind of...):
ball (round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games)
Meronyms (parts of "football"):
bladder (a bag that fills with air)
Derivation:
footballer (an athlete who plays American football)
Context examples:
He saw her come down the aisle, with Arthur and a strange young man with a football mop of hair and eyeglasses, the sight of whom spurred him to instant apprehension and jealousy.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Its magnetic field axis points 60 degrees away from that spin axis, so as the planet spins, its magnetosphere - the space carved out by its magnetic field - wobbles like a poorly thrown football.
(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)
A new study focused on the interior of Saturn's icy moon Mimas suggests its cratered surface hides one of two intriguing possibilities: Either the moon's frozen core is shaped something like a football, or the satellite contains a liquid water ocean.
(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)
Based on these new occultation observations, team members say MU69 may not be not a lone spherical object, but suspect it could be an extreme prolate spheroid – think of a skinny football – or even a binary pair.
(New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting, NASA)
Hand-clapping and roars of laughter from the hunters greeted the exploit, while Mugridge, eluding half of his pursuers at the foremast, ran aft and through the remainder like a runner on the football field.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
As pointed out in the study, the brains examined for the research were donated by family members of football players who may have exhibited symptoms of chronic brain injury prior to death.
(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)
The football match does not come within my horizon at all.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"And we urgently need to find answers for not just football players, but veterans and other individuals exposed to head trauma."
(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)
Personally I am in agreement with Dr. Armstrong, and football does not come within my horizon.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
