Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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formal | Yes | Yes | No | No |
ball | Yes | No | Yes | No |
formal (noun) | ball (noun) |
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a gown for evening wear | a pitch that is not in the strike zone |
a lavish dance requiring formal attire | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs |
round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games | |
a spherical object used as a plaything | |
a solid projectile that is shot by a musket | |
a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass | |
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | |
a lavish dance requiring formal attire | |
a compact mass | |
an object with a spherical shape |
formal (adjective) | ball (adjective) |
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being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) | |
(of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms | |
refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | |
logically deductive | |
represented in simplified or symbolic form | |
characteristic of or befitting a person in authority |
formal (verb) | ball (verb) |
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form into a ball by winding or rolling | |
to live very well |