balle
- Domaine
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- sportmatériel sportif
- Dernière mise à jour
Définition :
Sphère utilisée dans un grand nombre de jeux, dont les règlements définissent les propriétés - matière, volume, poids, élasticité - qui la distinguent de la bille et de la boule.
Note :
Jeux de ballon. Sous l'influence de l'anglais « ball » et de l'allemand « ball », le mot français prend le sens générique de ballon, auquel il se substitue dans un grand nombre d'expressions.
Terme privilégié :
- balle n. f.
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Le mot, emprunté au XVIe siècle à l'italien palla (dial, balla), absorbe au XIXe siècle l'anglais ball.
Traductions
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anglais
Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française,Note :
Balls are generally spherical. Football and rugby balls are exceptions. They have an oval outline, with the football having somewhat more pointed ends. The bowl used in lawn bowling is not perfectly spherical but has a bias on one side causing it to curve slightly when rolled. Balls may be classified into one of 4 groups according to the type of construction : some, like the football, rugby ball, basketball, and soccer ball, are inflated usually with a bladder inside a leather or rubber cover; others are made of solid or hollow rubber, like the lacrosse ball, handball, squash racquets ball, and tennis ball; still others are made of solid wood or hard plastic or composition material such as the billiard, bowling, croquet, and polo balls; and there are those built up of many layers of thread or yarn wound around a solid center and covered with a rubber or leather cover, like the baseball, cricket ball, pelota (jai alai), and softball.
Terme :
- ball