A town in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.

(OS grid ref SX0073) A hamlet in Egloshayle parish, on the eastern outskirts of Wadebridge, Cornwall, England .

A solid or hollow sphere or roughly spherical mass, as well as a quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

(mathematics) A homologue or analogue of a disk in the euclidean plane, the volume bounded by a sphere in 3-dimensional euclidean space, the set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance of a given point, and the set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.

(ballistics, firearms) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile used in cannons, rifles, guns, etc., and can also refer to a jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.

A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body, specifically the front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.

The globe; the earthly sphere.

(sports, countable) An object used in various sports and games that can be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., typically spherical but varying in size, weight, bounciness, and color depending on the specific game.

(mildly vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A noun "ball" represents a testicle and can also refer to nonsense or courage when used in the plural form.

(printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.

(farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.

(slang, countable, uncountable, singular only) One thousand US dollars.

A formal dance.

(informal) A very enjoyable time.

A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.

(transitive) To form or wind into a ball.

(metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

(transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.

(transitive, intransitive) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

(slang, usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.

(university slang) To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.)

(nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.

(transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.

(Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.