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Definition: Ballpark |
BallparkAdjective1. Not quite exact or correct; "the approximate time was 10 o'clock"; "a rough guess"; "a ballpark estimate". Noun1. A facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games); "take me out to the ballpark". 2. Near to the scope or range of something; "his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BallparkSynonyms: approximate (adj), approximative (adj), rough (adj), approximate range (n), park (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Error | In error, under an error; Noun: mistaken; Verb: tripping; Verb: out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray; (at fault); on a false scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross purposes, all in the wrong; all out. |
Similarity | Approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ballpark |
| English words defined with "ballpark": approximate, approximative ♦ rough. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ballpark": POLICE INSPECTOR II. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Not the same thing, the same ballpark. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) I could ballpark (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
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| "Architecture" by Jim Weisz Commentary: "This was taken at the Ballpark in Arlington, TX." |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Look, you have to admit that Israel is in more of a no-win situation than a Ballpark Frank entering the Westminster Dog Show. |
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| "Ballpark" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ballpark" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ballpark": ballpark figure. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ballpark"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shumë apriksimative (ballpark figure). (various references) | |
Arabic | تقدير أولي (ballpark figure). (various references) | |
Chinese | 球场公园. (various references) | |
German | Stadion, das, Sportstaette, fem.. (various references) | |
Hungarian | stadion (bowl, coliseum, stadium), futballpálya (football field, gridiron, soccer field), elég pontos (in the ballpark), baseball pálya. (various references) | |
Indonesian | stadion baseball. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allparkbay.(various references) | |
Russian | примерная цифра (ballpark figure). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | približan broj (ballpark figure). (various references) | |
Spanish | estadio de béisbol. (various references) | |
Swedish | ungefärligt tal (ballpark figure). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ballpark": ballparks. (additional references) | |
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"Ballpark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ablark, Balfarg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ballpark" (pronounced bô"lpÄ'rk) |
| 3 | -Ä' r k | aardvark, benchmark, birthmark, earmark, hallmark, landmark, matriarch, meadowlark, monarch, oligarch, patriarch, pockmark, postmark, Skylark, trademark, watermark. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-k-l-l-p-r" | |
-3 letters: kabar, kalpa, kraal, labra, parka. | |
-4 letters: alar, alba, arak, baal, balk, ball, bark, kapa, kbar, lark, pall, para, park. | |
-5 letters: aal, aba, ala, alb, all, alp, arb, ark, baa, bal, bap, bar, bra, kab, lab, lap, lar, pal, par, rap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-k-l-l-p-r" | |
+1 letter: ballparks. | |
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