| 单词 | air ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair ball air ball n. (a) a ball or balloon inflated with air, esp. one used as a toy; (b) Basketball a missed shot which fails to hit the rim or backboard. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > ball or balloon > [noun] ball?c1225 wind-ball1578 toss-ball1681 air ball1756 balloon1800 poi1817 gum ball1855 air balloon1883 beach-ball1940 1756 T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. II. 1 Heat made the air-ball descend. 1783 W. Cowper Let. 23 Sept. (1981) II. 162 French Philosophers amuse themselves, and, according to their own phrase, cover themselves with glory, by inventing Air-balls which by their own buoyancy, acend [sic] above the clouds. 1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Sept. 29/2 The India-rubber coloured air-balls, which are sold at fairs. 1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel I. 17 Children..flying gaudy-coloured air-balls. 1929 Mind New Ser. 38 346 Geometrically we may illustrate the series by..boundaries successively occupied by an india-rubber air ball while it is being blown up. 1967 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 29 Jan. iii. 1/3 Cal State, four times lofting air balls at an orange basket that may as well have been painted invisible. 1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 May 20 Revolutionary new chair boasts an air ball seat that claims to reduce pressure on the back. 2003 Boston Globe 30 Apr. (Metropolitan ed.) f8/3 [He] missed all three of his shots, one of them an airball. < as lemmas |
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