handball
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sexuality
soccer
sports
Etymology: From hand + ball.
Compound parts: hand
ball
Inflected forms:
form: handballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: handballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: handballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: handballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: handballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
gloss: A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
US
uncountable
gloss: The small rubber ball used in this sport.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A schoolyard game in which a bouncy ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
gloss: The bouncy ball used in the Australian schoolyard game handball.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
gloss: To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
pos: verb
examples: If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.
gloss: To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
pos: verb
examples: Meanwhile, you can introduce the basic concept of Aussie rules through a game like lineball, a lead-up game introduced in the basketball section of chapter 10, but with the ball handballed, not thrown.
An obvious way in which football has changed over the last decade or two has been in the use of handballing.
On only 8 occasions during the entire match did players who had marked the ball decide not to walk slowly and purposefully back and take their kick, but instead play on by handballing to a team mate.
gloss: To pass responsibility for a task or problem to someone else, often to avoid dealing with an undesirable task or a tricky question.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
slang
examples: Now six months into the role I have come to learn that the boss’s idea of empowering and delegating is actually handballing or passing off tasks that they actually should be performing themselves.
The shortage has taken time to develop and despite the government trying to handball' the problem to the states, it has happened on its watch.
I am finding that she's a difficult patient in more ways than one! for that reason I'll handball her off to our senior podiatrist if symptoms persist.
I might handball that question to Dr Parkinson or somebody who has a better view of the morphology of the portfolio than I do.
gloss: To insert a hand into someone's anus.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Synonyms: sport involving bouncing a ball off a wall
Derived words: field handball
handball alley
handball player
underground handball
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: игра с ръка
roman: igra s rǎka
lang: Dutch
word: hands
lang: Dutch
word: handsbal
lang: Finnish
word: käsikosketus
lang: Finnish
word: käsi
lang: French
word: main
lang: German
word: Handspiel
lang: German
word: Hand
lang: Greek
word: χέρι
roman: chéri
lang: Hungarian
word: kezezés
lang: Irish
word: láimhseáil
lang: Japanese
word: ハンドリング
roman: handoringu
lang: Japanese
word: ハンド
roman: hando
lang: Korean
word: 핸들링
roman: haendeulling
lang: Polish
word: ręka
lang: Portuguese
word: mão
lang: Romanian
word: henț
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: igranje rukom
lang: Swedish
word: hands
lang: Turkish
word: solungaç
lang: Ukrainian
word: зя́бра
roman: zjábra
lang: Ukrainian
word: жа́бри
roman: žábry
lang: Vietnamese
word: lỗi chạm tay
lang: Welsh
word: llawiad
lang: Zazaki
word: helpeze