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Definition: Badminton |
BadmintonNoun1. A game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Badminton \Bad"min*ton\, noun. [From the name of the seat of the Duke of Beaufort in England.]. (references) |
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Literature | Badminton is properly a "copus cup," made of claret spiced and sweetened, a favourite with the Duke of Beaufort of Badminton. As the duke used to be a great patron of the prize ring, Badminton was used as equivalent to claret as the synonym of blood. Also a game similar to lawn tennis only played with shuttlecocks instead of balls. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles). There are typically five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles (each pair is composed of one man and one woman).
Each player or pair takes position either side of a net, on a rectangular court marked on the floor, as shown in the diagram below:
Diagram of a badminton court. Larger Version
The object of the game is to hit a shuttlecock (more colloquially, "bird" or "birdie") using a racquet, over the net such that the opposing player or pair cannot hit it back before it hits the floor and the shuttlecock does not land outside the marked court. For every time this is achieved, the player or pair scores one point, if they were serving. If the opposing team was serving, there is a change of server. The first player or pair to reach 15 points (11 points for women) wins a game.
A badminton match can be made up of any odd number of games (usually 3). The winner of the match is the first to win more than half the number of games (e.g. the first to win 3 games in a 5 game match).
In both singles and doubles, there is a change of service when the server loses a point. In doubles, the first team to serve has one player serve. All other times, both players on the team serve in succession.
External Links
- International Badminton Federation
- Badminton for Beginner
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Badminton."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BAE | English | Badminton Association of England | N/A |
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Crosswords: Badminton |
| English words defined with "badminton": badminton court, badminton equipment, badminton racket, badminton racquet, battledore, bird, birdie ♦ cut ♦ doubles ♦ fault, forehand, forehand drive, forehand shot, forehand stroke ♦ net ♦ serve, service, shuttle, shuttlecock, singles. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "badminton": FIXING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ PAINTER AND GRADER, CORK ♦ RACKET STRINGER ♦ shuttlecock assembler, SUPERVISOR, NET MAKING. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Badminton" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (badminton), Czech (badminton), French (badminton), German (badminton), Indonesian (badminton), Italian (badminton), Portuguese (badminton), Romanian (battledore), Serbo-Croatian (badminton, shuttlecock), Spanish (badminton), Swedish (badminton), Turkish (badminton). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Badminton (1945) | |
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| "Badminton" by Pernilla Lindmon Commentary: "Badminton." | "Dirty foot" by Jan Sundstedt Commentary: "My son's foot after a badminton game on the lawn." |
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Business | Japan is strong in exports of golf balls and fishing tackle/landing nets. China, on the other hand, led in sales of table tennis balls and rackets; badminton and similar rackets; inflatable balls other than golf balls and table tennis balls; and in fishing tackle/landing nets. Hong Kong suppliers are leaders in sales of water skis, surf boards, and other water sports equipment; tennis rackets; and fishhooks. (references) | |
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| "Badminton" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.49% of the time. "Badminton" is used about 185 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) | 86.49% | 160 | 24,760 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.51% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 185 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "badminton": badminton court ♦ badminton equipment ♦ badminton racket ♦ badminton racquet. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "badminton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | badminton. (various references) | |
Arabic | البدمنتن تنس الريشة لعبة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бадминтон (shuttlecock). (various references) | |
Chinese | 羽毛球 . (various references) | |
Czech | badminton. (various references) | |
Dutch | Nederlandse Badminton Bond (Netherlands Badminton Association). (various references) | |
Farsi | نوعی بازی تنیس باتوپ پردار, بدمینتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | sulkapallo (shuttlecock). (various references) | |
French | badminton. (various references) | |
German | federballspiel. (various references) | |
Greek | παιγνίδι όμοιο με τέννισ, παιχνίδι με ρακέτες και σαΐτα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | כדור נוצה, בדמינטון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tollaslabdajáték (shuttlecock), tollaslabda játék, tollaslabda (shuttlecock), édesített vörösbor-fröccs. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bulutangkis, badminton. (various references) | |
Italian | badminton. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バッファ確保失敗 (baffy, banner, baton, baton girl, baton pass, baton passing, baton touch, baton twirler, Battenberg lace, battle royal, body, buffererror, vanadium). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バドミントン . (various references) | |
Korean | 배드민턴. (various references) | |
Manx | badmyntyn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | admintonbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | badminton, jogo de peteca, espécie de refresco. (various references) | |
Russian | бадминтон. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | badminton (shuttlecock). (various references) | |
Spanish | bádminton. (various references) | |
Swedish | badminton. (various references) | |
Thai | แบดมินตัน (กีฬา). (various references) | |
Turkish | badminton, tüylü toplarla oynanan tenis. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бадмінтон (shuttlecock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "badminton": badmintons. (additional references) | |
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"Badminton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Axminton, Badington, badmenton, badmington, badmiton, badmitton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "badminton" (pronounced ba"dmi'ntun) |
| 4 | -n t u n | Canton, dentin, fountain, intermountain, mountain, plantain, ponton, wanton. |
| 3 | -t u n | fatten, actin, batten, beaten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, forgotten, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, platen, pleasing, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wheaten, whiten, written. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-m-n-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: dominant. | |
-2 letters: bondman. | |
-3 letters: amnion, anoint, bandit, bonita, daimon, diatom, domain, intomb, manito, mantid, nation, nomina, obtain, tinman. | |
-4 letters: admit, ambit, amido, amino, amnio, anion, baton, biont, biota, danio, donna, matin, monad, niton, nomad, tabid, toman, tondi. | |
-5 letters: adit, ambo, amid, amin, anon, anti, atom, bait, band, bani, bima, bind, bint, boat, bond, bota, damn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-m-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: badmintons. | |
+2 letters: subdominant. | |
+3 letters: subdominants. | |
+5 letters: indemonstrable, indemonstrably. | |
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