(sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins |
a usually brief attempt | any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish |
(American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization |
(baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
success in satisfying a test or requirement | a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation |
a flight or run by an aircraft over a target | a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence |
a permit to enter or leave a military installation | (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point |
any authorization to pass or go somewhere | |
an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | |
a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions | |
a complimentary ticket | |
a difficult juncture | |
one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer) | |
the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | |
a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | |
(military) a written leave of absence | |