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Definition: Blackball |
BlackballNoun1. The act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto. Verb1. Expel from a community or group. 2. Vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BlackballSynonyms: barring (n), ban (v), banish (v), cast out (v), negative (v), ostracise (v), ostracize (v), shun (v), veto (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exclusion | Xclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; (seclude); separate.; (disjoin). |
Seclusion Exclusion | Cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Blackball |
| English words defined with "blackball": Blackballed, Blackballing. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Blackball (2003) | |
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| "Blackball 2" by Cole Marie Commentary: "Stuff." |
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| "Blackball" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blackball" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
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 |
blackball ferry | 34 |
blackball | 24 |
blackball transport | 7 |
africa blackball coin entertainment manufacturer op south | 6 |
blackball coin entertainment op | 6 |
blackball record | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "blackball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | سقط في الإمتحان, خذل (let down). (various references) | |
Farsi | مخالفت کردن (Controvert, Object, Oppose, Withstand), تحریم کردن (Ban, Boycott, Prohibit, Proscribe), رای مخالف دادن (Nix, Veto). (various references) | |
French | blackbouler, vote contraire. (various references) | |
German | boykottieren (black, boycott), stimmen gegen, ausschließen (bar, debar, deprive, disqualify, draw out, drive out, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, express, forbid, foreclose, give utterance to, leave out, lock out, preclude, precluding, pull out, rule out, space out, suspend, to exclude, to foreclose, to space out, utter). (various references) | |
Greek | καταψηφίζω (kill, vote against, vote down), μαύρη ψήφοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להצביע נגד. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kigolyóz valakit, fekete golyó, ellenszavazat (non-content). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membukuhitamkan (black list). (various references) | |
Italian | voto contrario (nay), votare contro. (various references) | |
Manx | doo-yiooldey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackballblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | voto contrário (dissenting vote). (various references) | |
Romanian | vota împotriva, vot contra (nay, no), respinge (alienate, beat back, cast away, check, confute, decline, deny, disaffirm, discard, disprove, except, fend, force back, kill, leave, negate, negative, overrule, plough, rebuff, rebut, recess, refuse, refute, reject, relinquish, repel, repudiate, repugn, repulse, return, throw out). (various references) | |
Russian | забаллотировать (black-ball, outvote, pip, vote down). (various references) | |
Spanish | bola negra. (various references) | |
Turkish | oybirliği ile atmak (pip). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | забалотувати (negative, outvote). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "blackball": blackballed, blackballing, blackballs. (additional references) | |
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"Blackball" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blackall, Blackbelly, Brackbill. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "blackball" (pronounced bla"kbô'l) |
| 5 | -a" k b ô' l | trackball. |
| 4 | -k b ô' l | stickball. |
| 3 | -b ô' l | basketball, butterball, cannonball, eyeball, fastball, fireball, football, handball, hardball, softball, spitball, meatball, mothball, oddball, pinball, racquetball, screwball, snowball, softball, volleyball. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-k-l-l-l" | |
-4 letters: aback, alack, babka, black, cabal, calla, kabab. | |
-5 letters: abba, alba, baal, baba, back, balk, ball, blab, calk, call, lack, lall. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-b-c-k-l-l-l" | |
+1 letter: blackballs. | |
+2 letters: blackballed. | |
+3 letters: blackballing. | |
| 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. | |
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