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单词 ballpark
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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