ALL meanings of baseball
base·ball
B b - noun baseball a game (esp. hardball (sense 1) hardball (sense 1a)) played with a bat and a ball by two opposing teams of nine or ten players on a field with four bases: each team takes turns batting against the opponent's pitcher and tries to score more runs than the other team 3
- noun baseball the ball used in playing hardball: it is hard, usually white and rawhide-covered, and smaller than a softball 3
- uncountable noun baseball In America, baseball is a game played by two teams of nine players. Each player from one team hits a ball with a bat and then tries to run around three bases and get to the home base before the other team can get the ball back. 3
- countable noun baseball A baseball is a small hard ball which is used in the game of baseball. 3
- noun baseball a team game with nine players on each side, played on a field with four bases connected to form a diamond. The object is to score runs by batting the ball and running round the bases 3
- noun baseball the hard rawhide-covered ball used in this game 3
- noun baseball sport 1
- abbreviation BASEBALL ball 1
- noun baseball card game: poker 1
- noun baseball a game of ball between two nine-player teams played usually for nine innings on a field that has as a focal point a diamond-shaped infield with a home plate and three other bases, 90 feet (27 meters) apart, forming a circuit that must be completed by a base runner in order to score, the central offensive action entailing hitting of a pitched ball with a wooden or metal bat and running of the bases, the winner being the team scoring the most runs. 1
- noun baseball the ball used in this game, being a sphere approximately 3 inches (7 cm) in diameter with a twine-covered center of cork covered by stitched horsehide. 1
- noun baseball A ball game played between two teams of nine on a field with a diamond-shaped circuit of four bases. It is played chiefly in the US, Canada, Latin America, and East Asia. 1
- noun baseball Cards. a variety of five-card or seven-card stud poker in which nines and threes are wild and in which threes and fours dealt face up gain the player either penalties or privileges. 1
- noun baseball A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins. 0
- noun baseball The ball used to play the sport of baseball. 0
- noun baseball A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance. 0