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Definition: Ballgame |
BallgameNoun1. A field game played with a ball (especially baseball);. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: BallgameSynonym: ball game (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Every word, kid. It's a whole new ballgame. You have exactly 35 minutes. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) And tell the cook this is low grade dogfood. I've had better food at the ballgame, you know? (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) Well, that's the ballgame. (The Odd Couple; writing credit: Neil Simon) Man touching a wife's feet and sticking your nose in the hole of the holiest isn't the same ballgame. It isn't even the same league. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Take Me Out to the Ballgame (1910) Ballgame (1896) A Whole New Ballgame (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Ballgame" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ballgame" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
take me out to the ballgame | 94 |
ballgame lyrics take | 12 |
ballgame take wav | 11 |
ballgame music take | 10 |
ballgame midi take | 9 |
ballgame | 8 |
ballgame download take | 6 |
ballgame music sheet take | 5 |
ballgame take words | 3 |
ballgame beautiful day its | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ballgame"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | boldspiel. (various references) | |
Dutch | balspel (ball game). (various references) | |
German | Ballspiel (ball game). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allgamebay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ballgame": ballgames. (additional references) | |
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"Ballgame" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bilagare, Blagajek, Ebalgume. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ballgame" (pronounced bôlgā"m) |
| 3 | -g ā" m | game, postgame. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-l-l-m" | |
-2 letters: agleam, ambage, begall, gamble. | |
-3 letters: abeam, algae, algal, amble, ameba, bagel, belga, blame, gable, galea, gamba, gambe, gleam, gleba, label, legal, llama. | |
-4 letters: able, agma, alae, alba, alga, alma, alme, baal, bale, ball, balm, beam, bell, bema, blae, blam, egal, gala, gale, gall, gama, gamb, game, lama, lamb, lame, leal, mabe, mage, male, mall, meal, mell. | |
-5 letters: aal, aba, aga, age, ala, alb, ale, all, ama, baa, bag, bal, bam, beg, bel, ell, elm, gab, gae, gal, gam, gel, gem, lab, lag, lam, lea, leg, mae, mag, meg, mel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-g-l-l-m" | |
+1 letter: ballgames. | |
+3 letters: megaloblast. | |
+4 letters: megaloblasts. | |
+5 letters: megaloblastic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 6C 67 61 6D 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. .-.. --. .- -- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100111 01100001 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l l g a m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 006C 0067 0061 006D 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3667787873677971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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