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tomography of a soccer ball http://www.rad-zep.de/RadZepMov/Weltmeisterschaft-2006-Fussball/web/Radiologie-Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft-Movie-Gallerie_nl.html (Video) Balls are usually hollow and spherical but can be other shapes, such as ovoid (only in a few special cases) or solid (as in billiards). In most games using balls, the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked, or thrown by players. Balls can also be used for solitary activities such as juggling. __TOC__
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Unrounded balls Phrases Etymology The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal (inflected as ball-e, -es in turn from Old Norse böllr (pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish båll) from Old Teutonic ballu-z, (whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Old Teutonic ballon (weak masculine), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Old Teutonic ballôn (weak feminine). No Old English representative of any of these is known. (The answering forms in Old English would have been beallu, -a, -e -- compare bealluc, ballock.) If ball- was native in Teutonic, it may have been a cognate with the Latin foll-is in sense of a "thing blown up or inflated." In the later Middle English spelling balle the word coincided graphically with the French balle "ball" and "bale", which has hence been erroneously assumed to be its source. See also | ||||||||||
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