ballparkn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈbɔːlpɑːk/, U.S.

/ˈbɔlˌpɑrk/,

/ˈbɑlˌpɑrk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ball n.¹, park n.

Etymology: < ball n.¹ + park n.

Originally and chiefly U.S.

A. n.

1. A baseball stadium or ground.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun]

ball field1440

park1867

ballpark1871

baseball diamond1871

diamond1875

ballyard1897

orchard1913

1871 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 20 July There will be numerous chances to ride to the ball park this afternoon.

1899 Chicago Daily News 4 Aug. 6/1 Billy Phyle..went out to the ball park.

1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch 197 When I reported at the ball park, the gates had been closed by order of the National Commission.

1957 Economist 23 Nov. 687/1 Shortly after the war..attendance at the ball parks began to slump as a result of television.

2002 L. Scanlan Grace under Fire i. 22 [He buys] a cheap ticket at the ballpark and then ‘slides down’ to a better, vacant seat—preferably behind home plate.

2. In extended use and figurative.

a. Originally U.S.A.F. slang. An area compared to a ballpark in size or extent; spec. (Astronautics) the area of ocean within which a capsule from a satellite is intended to be recoverable. Now rare except as merged with sense A. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > slow landing without damage > expected landing area

ballpark1943

recovery area1943

footprint1962

1943 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 29 Oct. 6/5 This, as air force officers put it, will bring the whole Ruhr valley 'within the American fighters ballpark'.

1959 Pasadena (Calif.) Star-News 9 Sept. 1 A 50 by 200-mile area dubbed the ‘ballpark’ because waiting C-119 ‘Flying Box-cars’ equipped with aerial nets plan to snag the package [sc. Discoverer VIII] as it floats back to the Pacific Ocean.

1960 San Francisco Examiner 21 Aug. i. 10/3 The Discoverer XIV capsule..came down 200 miles from the center of its predicted impact area, but still within the designated ‘ballpark’ area.

1961 Times (Seattle, Washington) 15 Oct. 1 The aerial recovery in an area called the ‘ballpark’ was the sixth in the Discoverer series.

b. A notional region or area within which comparisons, approximations, etc., can be made; an accepted or expected range, esp. one within which an amount or estimate is likely to be correct. Frequently as in the (right) ballpark: approximately right, fairly accurate. Also in the (same) ballpark: approximately similar, in the same area or range.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] > range of comparison

ballpark1945

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > closeness to accuracy > [adverb]

much1560

nearly1594

muchwhat1619

nigh about1632

closely1682

roughly1768

close1833

approximatively1835

proximately1839

in the rough1841

approximately1845

along1852

nearbouta1857

in a sort of (sorta) way1868

in the (right) ballpark1945

grosso modo1952

1945 K. Patchen Mem. Shy Pornographer 101 ‘Miro complicates it simply because he doesn't know how to handle his material.’ ‘But Arp does, I suppose.’ ‘Of course he does.’ ‘You're way out in left field.’ ‘And you're not even in the ball park.’

1953 Atomic Power Devel. & Private Enterprise (Hearings before U.S. Congress Joint Comm. on Atomic Energy) 230 We need the full-scale plant in order to find out if we are in the ball park economically.

1957 San Francisco Examiner 5 Aug. ii. 15/2 I thought I would start with a figure that we could plus or minus a billion or so and be within the ball park.

1962 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 June 8/6 (advt.) Its speed, range, and over-the-weather altitude put it in the same ballpark with the big airline jets.

1968 San Francisco Examiner 8 Oct. 58/7 The figures I have indicate this pay-out is ‘in the ball park’.

1970 Observer 24 May 40/6 You guys all belong in the same ballpark.

1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 13 May 59/2 We can save lives with adequately equipped ambulances and properly trained personnel. It may be 50,000 or 75,000, but a figure of 60,000 is in the right ball park.

1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. xiv. 154 The Delphi technique of brainstorming can often produce answers surprisingly close to reality, but it may also produce one not even in the ‘ball park’.

1978 New Scientist 4 May 277/2 The volume of carbon dioxide required to produce surface carbon..would have created an atmosphere ‘in the ballpark of Venus’.

1985 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 23 Sept. 14/2 A previously established gross takeoff weight target of 50,000 lb. remains in effect... ‘We're confident we're in the right ballpark now,’ Russ said.

1995 Q June 113/2 He told them they were in the right ballpark for what they were trying to express.

2000 Daily Tel. 16 Mar. (Connected section) 3/1 The X-Box's innards are at least in the same ballpark as the PlayStation 2's Emotion Engine processor.

c. A sphere of activity, influence, or expertise.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity

fieldOE

limitationc1405

hemisphere?1504

ambitudea1525

world1580

orb1598

spherea1616

ambit1649

scene1737

orblet1841

front1917

parish1940

ballpark1963

shtick1965

1963 San Francisco News Call-Bulletin 6 Nov. 51/1 They might find ‘pockets of overbuilding in their own ball park’.

1971 San Francisco Examiner 10 Aug. 18/2 Perhaps your mother-in-law ‘took over’ because she is an R.N. and the hospital is her ballpark.

1986 Marketing 11 Sept. 26/1 It is difficult to know how the new Chinese masters will regard the activities of the colony…So the ball park still isn't clearly defined.

2006 Toronto Star (Nexis) 10 Feb. d13 I really had no idea what I was going to do because this is totally out of my ballpark.

B. adj. (attributive).

Of a figure, estimate, or the like: approximate; within a reasonable range of accuracy.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > closeness to accuracy > [adjective]

narrow1551

rough1561

propinquec1570

close1719

approximated1789

proximate1796

approximate1816

approximative1830

ballpark1960

1960 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 8 Sept. 2/2 No ‘ball-park’ figure is available on the exact dollars and cents hike which would be required to earn this percentage.

1969 San Francisco Examiner 23 June 2/6 A ‘ballpark estimate’ put the cost of such a plan at possibly £20 billion the first year.

1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 72/2 This technique..gives only ‘ball park’ types of answers.

1984 New Yorker 14 May 42/2 How many times per week do you have sexual relations? On the average—just a ballpark figure.

1993 D. Burrus & R. Gittines Technotrends (1994) 322 Can you give us a ballpark percentage on how much we should be investing in upgrading our skills?

2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 281 I ask for an estimate, a ballpark figure.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

ballparkv.

Brit.

/ˈbɔːlpɑːk/, U.S.

/ˈbɔlˌpɑrk/,

/ˈbɑlˌpɑrk/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ballpark n.

Etymology: < ballpark n.

colloquial (originally U.S.).

transitive. To estimate the approximate value, amount, extent, etc., of (something). Also intransitive. Cf. ballpark n. 2b.

ΘΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measure [verb (transitive)] > estimate measurement or amount

esteem1477

estimate1669

appreciate1818

appraise1864

evaluate1874

the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > conjecture, guess [verb (transitive)] > form approximate judgement

guessc1330

conjecturea1513

guesstimate1942

the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > form conjectures, guess [verb (intransitive)]

divine1362

supposea1393

conjecta1425

guessc1535

rove1551

level1580

conjecture1587

to harp at1611

to venture at1623

to make a shot1840

reach1952

1957 Aviation Week 30 Dec. 92/2 Once this pattern is ‘ball-parked’ for approximate actual size, it's ready for detail design.

1985 I. M. Gottlieb Basic Electronic Test Procedures (ed. 2) i. 20/2 Since we are ‘ballparking’ rather than making a precise measurement, the physical position of the rheostat wiper arm will give us the desired information.

2012 B. Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 269 Look, just ballparking this thing, if it has even decent success.., you guys will come out considerably better than a hundred thousand.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022).

单词	ballpark
释义	ballparkn.adj. Brit. /ˈbɔːlpɑːk/, U.S. /ˈbɔlˌpɑrk/, /ˈbɑlˌpɑrk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ball n.¹, park n. Etymology: < ball n.¹ + park n. Originally and chiefly U.S. A. n. 1. A baseball stadium or ground. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] ball field1440 park1867 ballpark1871 baseball diamond1871 diamond1875 ballyard1897 orchard1913 1871 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 20 July There will be numerous chances to ride to the ball park this afternoon. 1899 Chicago Daily News 4 Aug. 6/1 Billy Phyle..went out to the ball park. 1912 C. Mathewson Pitching in Pinch 197 When I reported at the ball park, the gates had been closed by order of the National Commission. 1957 Economist 23 Nov. 687/1 Shortly after the war..attendance at the ball parks began to slump as a result of television. 2002 L. Scanlan Grace under Fire i. 22 [He buys] a cheap ticket at the ballpark and then ‘slides down’ to a better, vacant seat—preferably behind home plate. 2. In extended use and figurative. a. Originally U.S.A.F. slang. An area compared to a ballpark in size or extent; spec. (Astronautics) the area of ocean within which a capsule from a satellite is intended to be recoverable. Now rare except as merged with sense A. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > slow landing without damage > expected landing area ballpark1943 recovery area1943 footprint1962 1943 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 29 Oct. 6/5 This, as air force officers put it, will bring the whole Ruhr valley 'within the American fighters ballpark'. 1959 Pasadena (Calif.) Star-News 9 Sept. 1 A 50 by 200-mile area dubbed the ‘ballpark’ because waiting C-119 ‘Flying Box-cars’ equipped with aerial nets plan to snag the package [sc. Discoverer VIII] as it floats back to the Pacific Ocean. 1960 San Francisco Examiner 21 Aug. i. 10/3 The Discoverer XIV capsule..came down 200 miles from the center of its predicted impact area, but still within the designated ‘ballpark’ area. 1961 Times (Seattle, Washington) 15 Oct. 1 The aerial recovery in an area called the ‘ballpark’ was the sixth in the Discoverer series. b. A notional region or area within which comparisons, approximations, etc., can be made; an accepted or expected range, esp. one within which an amount or estimate is likely to be correct. Frequently as in the (right) ballpark: approximately right, fairly accurate. Also in the (same) ballpark: approximately similar, in the same area or range. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > [noun] > range of comparison ballpark1945 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > closeness to accuracy > [adverb] much1560 nearly1594 muchwhat1619 nigh about1632 closely1682 roughly1768 close1833 approximatively1835 proximately1839 in the rough1841 approximately1845 along1852 nearbouta1857 in a sort of (sorta) way1868 in the (right) ballpark1945 grosso modo1952 1945 K. Patchen Mem. Shy Pornographer 101 ‘Miro complicates it simply because he doesn't know how to handle his material.’ ‘But Arp does, I suppose.’ ‘Of course he does.’ ‘You're way out in left field.’ ‘And you're not even in the ball park.’ 1953 Atomic Power Devel. & Private Enterprise (Hearings before U.S. Congress Joint Comm. on Atomic Energy) 230 We need the full-scale plant in order to find out if we are in the ball park economically. 1957 San Francisco Examiner 5 Aug. ii. 15/2 I thought I would start with a figure that we could plus or minus a billion or so and be within the ball park. 1962 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 June 8/6 (advt.) Its speed, range, and over-the-weather altitude put it in the same ballpark with the big airline jets. 1968 San Francisco Examiner 8 Oct. 58/7 The figures I have indicate this pay-out is ‘in the ball park’. 1970 Observer 24 May 40/6 You guys all belong in the same ballpark. 1972 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 13 May 59/2 We can save lives with adequately equipped ambulances and properly trained personnel. It may be 50,000 or 75,000, but a figure of 60,000 is in the right ball park. 1977 R. E. Megill Introd. Risk Anal. xiv. 154 The Delphi technique of brainstorming can often produce answers surprisingly close to reality, but it may also produce one not even in the ‘ball park’. 1978 New Scientist 4 May 277/2 The volume of carbon dioxide required to produce surface carbon..would have created an atmosphere ‘in the ballpark of Venus’. 1985 Aviation Week & Space Technol. 23 Sept. 14/2 A previously established gross takeoff weight target of 50,000 lb. remains in effect... ‘We're confident we're in the right ballpark now,’ Russ said. 1995 Q June 113/2 He told them they were in the right ballpark for what they were trying to express. 2000 Daily Tel. 16 Mar. (Connected section) 3/1 The X-Box's innards are at least in the same ballpark as the PlayStation 2's Emotion Engine processor. c. A sphere of activity, influence, or expertise. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > affairs > sphere of activity fieldOE limitationc1405 hemisphere?1504 ambitudea1525 world1580 orb1598 spherea1616 ambit1649 scene1737 orblet1841 front1917 parish1940 ballpark1963 shtick1965 1963 San Francisco News Call-Bulletin 6 Nov. 51/1 They might find ‘pockets of overbuilding in their own ball park’. 1971 San Francisco Examiner 10 Aug. 18/2 Perhaps your mother-in-law ‘took over’ because she is an R.N. and the hospital is her ballpark. 1986 Marketing 11 Sept. 26/1 It is difficult to know how the new Chinese masters will regard the activities of the colony…So the ball park still isn't clearly defined. 2006 Toronto Star (Nexis) 10 Feb. d13 I really had no idea what I was going to do because this is totally out of my ballpark. B. adj. (attributive). Of a figure, estimate, or the like: approximate; within a reasonable range of accuracy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > closeness to accuracy > [adjective] narrow1551 rough1561 propinquec1570 close1719 approximated1789 proximate1796 approximate1816 approximative1830 ballpark1960 1960 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 8 Sept. 2/2 No ‘ball-park’ figure is available on the exact dollars and cents hike which would be required to earn this percentage. 1969 San Francisco Examiner 23 June 2/6 A ‘ballpark estimate’ put the cost of such a plan at possibly £20 billion the first year. 1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 72/2 This technique..gives only ‘ball park’ types of answers. 1984 New Yorker 14 May 42/2 How many times per week do you have sexual relations? On the average—just a ballpark figure. 1993 D. Burrus & R. Gittines Technotrends (1994) 322 Can you give us a ballpark percentage on how much we should be investing in upgrading our skills? 2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 281 I ask for an estimate, a ballpark figure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). ballparkv. Brit. /ˈbɔːlpɑːk/, U.S. /ˈbɔlˌpɑrk/, /ˈbɑlˌpɑrk/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ballpark n. Etymology: < ballpark n. colloquial (originally U.S.). transitive. To estimate the approximate value, amount, extent, etc., of (something). Also intransitive. Cf. ballpark n. 2b. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measure [verb (transitive)] > estimate measurement or amount esteem1477 estimate1669 appreciate1818 appraise1864 evaluate1874 the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > conjecture, guess [verb (transitive)] > form approximate judgement guessc1330 conjecturea1513 guesstimate1942 the mind > mental capacity > belief > conjecture, guessing > form conjectures, guess [verb (intransitive)] divine1362 supposea1393 conjecta1425 guessc1535 rove1551 level1580 conjecture1587 to harp at1611 to venture at1623 to make a shot1840 reach1952 1957 Aviation Week 30 Dec. 92/2 Once this pattern is ‘ball-parked’ for approximate actual size, it's ready for detail design. 1985 I. M. Gottlieb Basic Electronic Test Procedures (ed. 2) i. 20/2 Since we are ‘ballparking’ rather than making a precise measurement, the physical position of the rheostat wiper arm will give us the desired information. 2012 B. Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 269 Look, just ballparking this thing, if it has even decent success.., you guys will come out considerably better than a hundred thousand. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.adj.1871v.1957
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