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noun/ˈbeɪs.bɔːl//ˈbeɪs.bɔl//ˈbeɪs.bɑl/
  1. 1

    A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective 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, winsuncountable

    • It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
  2. 2

    The ball used to play the sport of baseball.countable

    • The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabi
  3. 3

    A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.countableuncountable

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