BALL  球

PERFECTLY ROUND THING that CAN BE MOVED.
SPHEREGLOBEORBGLOBULESPHERULESPHEROIDOVOID
Antonym
  • CUBESHAPE which has ONLY SQUARE SIDES.
    Hypernym
    • TOYARTEFACT USED FOR PLAYING with.
      • ARTEFACTTHING PRODUCED by MAN.
        • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
          • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
    See also
    • ROUNDCURVED IN ALL DIMENSIONS.
      Hyponym
      • BUBBLE　BALL CONTAINING AIR OR GAS AND HAVING an INTENSELY THIN SKIN which is EASY to DESTROY.
        • PEARL　SMALL SHINING BALL which GROWS IN MUSSELS.
          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 ／

          • 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

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          Words

          丸  wán OC: ɢoon MC: ɦʷɑn 7 AttributionsWD
            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 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • nthing with circular and round shape > ball
          • ncpost-V{NUM}.+Nclassifierx balls of N
          毬  qiú OC: ɡu MC: gɨu 1 AttributionWD

          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 AttributionWD
            Syntactic words
          • NPball (for playing Chinese football)
          帗  fú OC: pɯd MC: pi̯ut 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • nwand with silk pennons carried in ritual dances
          踘  jū OC: kuɡ MC: kuk 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • nZGC: football
          顆  kě OC: khloolʔ MC: khʷɑ 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • nsmall ball, small round object
          彈丸  dàn wán OC: daans ɢoon MC: dɑn ɦʷɑn 0 AttributionsWD
            Syntactic words
          • NPball
          立圓  lì yuán OC: ɡ-rub ɢon MC: lip ɦiɛn 0 AttributionsWD
            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"

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