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noun ˈhəʊməˈhoʊmər 1Baseball
A home run. Example sentencesExamples - He hit a homer over the right field wall to give us the lead.
- Adrian Beltre hit a three-run homer, his 45th home run of the season, in the third inning off Jason Marquis for a 5-4 Dodger lead.
- Famously, he hit a home run in his first at-bat, the only homer of his career.
- If these estimates are close, Williams would have ranked only behind Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in lifetime homers.
- Could you put together a list of players who hit 20 or more homers with the lowest batting average in one season?
2A homing pigeon. Example sentencesExamples - The homers flap about and waddle towards the door.
- Keep your homers in the pen for a few weeks before you let them out for the first time.
- He maintains one of the world's best known teams of racing homers at the Royal Lofts, Sandringham.
- A racing homer can average 40 miles per hour or more under normal conditions, but they have reached speeds of 60 miles per hour and faster.
3informal A referee or official who is thought to favour the team playing at home. Example sentencesExamples - I was tired, having played two games just before that one, the ref was a homer,
- Luckily for him, the referee is a complete homer so he gets away with it both times.
- ‘I probably shouldn't call referees homers, but I think generally they bend a little bit to the home side and may be pressured by the crowd,’ he explained.
- Referees do seem to be homers but they are only human.
verb ˈhəʊməˈhoʊmər Baseball Hit a home run. he homered for the sixth time in seven games Example sentencesExamples - Well, Youks made his major league debut a few weeks back, homering in his first game.
- He came within several feet of homering in his first big-league at-bat, his first-inning double hitting halfway up the wall in right-center July 16 against the Mariners.
- Jason Varitek and David McCarty also homered for the Red Sox, hitting solo shots off Lance Carter in the eighth.
- He also homered 26 times with the bases empty, 19 times with one runner on base, and four times and two runners on base.
- He homered twice against Colorado in the game before the All-Star break, then hit another against Arizona last Friday.
proper nounˈhəʊməˈhoʊmər (8th century BC), Greek epic poet. He is traditionally held to be the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, though modern scholarship has revealed the place of the Homeric poems in a preliterate oral tradition. In later antiquity Homer was regarded as the greatest poet, and his poems were constantly used as a model and source by others.
Phrases proverb Even the most gifted person occasionally makes mistakes. Example sentencesExamples - I'd comfort myself with our old prep school saying, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, ‘even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.’
- As a result, I have tended to steer clear of the play, thinking that, if Homer sometimes nods (as the old saying has it), then here at any rate, Shakespeare was deeply asleep!
- Perhaps, endowed as he was with such excellent powers of perception, he should have sensed the presence of an enemy; but ‘even the worthy Homer sometimes nods’.
- It serves no useful purpose for the writer to remind himself that ‘even Homer sometimes nods.’
- Yes, it was created by top, well loved developers but even Homer sometimes nods, and he has here.
- If any such thing should occur, I can only plead, in the words of Horace, that ‘good Homer sometimes nods’, or, as the bishop put it, ‘Not even the youngest curate in my diocese is infallible.’
Rhymes aroma, carcinoma, chroma, coma, comber, diploma, glaucoma, lymphoma, melanoma, misnomer, Oklahoma, Omagh, roamer, Roma, romer, sarcoma, soma nounˈhōmərˈhoʊmər 1Baseball
A home run. Example sentencesExamples - Could you put together a list of players who hit 20 or more homers with the lowest batting average in one season?
- Adrian Beltre hit a three-run homer, his 45th home run of the season, in the third inning off Jason Marquis for a 5-4 Dodger lead.
- Famously, he hit a home run in his first at-bat, the only homer of his career.
- If these estimates are close, Williams would have ranked only behind Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in lifetime homers.
- He hit a homer over the right field wall to give us the lead.
2A homing pigeon. Example sentencesExamples - A racing homer can average 40 miles per hour or more under normal conditions, but they have reached speeds of 60 miles per hour and faster.
- He maintains one of the world's best known teams of racing homers at the Royal Lofts, Sandringham.
- Keep your homers in the pen for a few weeks before you let them out for the first time.
- The homers flap about and waddle towards the door.
3informal A referee or official who is thought to favor the team playing at home. Example sentencesExamples - ‘I probably shouldn't call referees homers, but I think generally they bend a little bit to the home side and may be pressured by the crowd,’ he explained.
- Referees do seem to be homers but they are only human.
- I was tired, having played two games just before that one, the ref was a homer,
- Luckily for him, the referee is a complete homer so he gets away with it both times.
verbˈhōmərˈhoʊmər [no object]Baseball Hit a home run. he homered for the sixth time in seven games Example sentencesExamples - Well, Youks made his major league debut a few weeks back, homering in his first game.
- Jason Varitek and David McCarty also homered for the Red Sox, hitting solo shots off Lance Carter in the eighth.
- He came within several feet of homering in his first big-league at-bat, his first-inning double hitting halfway up the wall in right-center July 16 against the Mariners.
- He also homered 26 times with the bases empty, 19 times with one runner on base, and four times and two runners on base.
- He homered twice against Colorado in the game before the All-Star break, then hit another against Arizona last Friday.
proper nounˈhōmərˈhoʊmər (8th century BC), Greek epic poet. He is traditionally held to be the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, although modern scholarship has revealed the place of the Homeric poems in a preliterate oral tradition. In later antiquity, Homer was regarded as the greatest poet, and his poems were constantly used as a model and source by others.
Phrases proverb Even the most gifted person occasionally makes mistakes. Example sentencesExamples - As a result, I have tended to steer clear of the play, thinking that, if Homer sometimes nods (as the old saying has it), then here at any rate, Shakespeare was deeply asleep!
- Perhaps, endowed as he was with such excellent powers of perception, he should have sensed the presence of an enemy; but ‘even the worthy Homer sometimes nods’.
- Yes, it was created by top, well loved developers but even Homer sometimes nods, and he has here.
- I'd comfort myself with our old prep school saying, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, ‘even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.’
- It serves no useful purpose for the writer to remind himself that ‘even Homer sometimes nods.’
- If any such thing should occur, I can only plead, in the words of Horace, that ‘good Homer sometimes nods’, or, as the bishop put it, ‘Not even the youngest curate in my diocese is infallible.’
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