BALL    球

PERFECTLY ROUND THING that CAN BE MOVED.
SPHEREGLOBEORBGLOBULESPHERULESPHEROIDOVOID
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The word for a football is qiú 毬, but the word is exceedingly rare. NB: Qiú 球 is current in pre-Buddhist Chinese only as referring to a music stone made of jade.
Modern Chinese Criteria
球體 球 滾珠 圓球 圓子 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • BUBBLE　BALL CONTAINING AIR OR GAS AND HAVING an INTENSELY THIN SKIN which is EASY to DESTROY. (anc: 7/0, child: 0)
  • PEARL　SMALL SHINING BALL which GROWS IN MUSSELS. (anc: 7/0, child: 0)
Antonym
  • CUBESHAPE which has ONLY SQUARE SIDES.
See also
  • ROUNDCURVED IN ALL DIMENSIONS.
Hypernym
  • TOY　ARTEFACT USED FOR PLAYING with. (anc: 5/0, child: 2)
  • ARTEFACT　THING PRODUCED by MAN. (anc: 4/0, child: 26)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 12.83

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    BALL

    globus is the general popular term for any spherical object.

    sphaera is a scientific term for any spherical object.

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 1.738

  • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 4.1211

    KREIS UND KUGEL

    • Words (9 items)

    丸  wán OC: ɢoon MC: ɦʷɑn 7 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003: (apparently less formal term for the) sphereJZ 4.24, Liu Hui's comm: 大弦則中立方之長邪，邪即丸徑也 "The larger hypotenuse being then the longer diagonal of the inscribed cube, the diagonal is hence the diameter of the sphere."JZ 4.24, Liu Hui's comm: 立圓即丸也　"The 'standing circle>sphere' is nothing other than the ball> sphere"
    • nccpellet; ball 丸二
    團  tuán OC: doon MC: dʷɑn 2 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nthing with circular and round shape > ball
    • ncpost-V{NUM}.+Nclassifierx balls of N
    毬  qiú OC: ɡu MC: gɨu 1 Attribution

    1. The word for a football is qiú 毬, but the word is exceedingly rare.

      Syntactic words
    • nSHUOWEN: ball (used to play Chinese football)
    毬子  qiú zǐ OC: ɡu sklɯʔ MC: gɨu tsɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPball (for playing Chinese football)
    踘  jū OC: kuɡ MC: kuk 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nZGC: football
    顆  kě OC: khloolʔ MC: khʷɑ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nsmall ball, small round object
    立圓  lì yuán OC: ɡ-rub ɢon MC: lip ɦiɛn 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPabmathematical termCHEMLA 2003: sphereJZ 4.24, Liu Hui's comm: 立圓即丸也　"The 'standing circle>sphere' is nothing other than the ball> sphere"
    彈丸  dàn wán OC: daans ɢoon MC: dɑn ɦʷɑn 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPball
    帗  fú OC: pɯd MC: pi̯ut 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nwand with silk pennons carried in ritual dances