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ball
Noun
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A ball is a round thing. People often use them to play games.
The croquet ball was hit through the wicket and the game was over.
A ball is hit with a racquet in tennis.
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A ball is a formal dance.
There is an inaugural ball following the swearing-in of the new President.
Cinderella lost her glass slipper at the Prince's ball.
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the testicles
John's balls ached because he hadn't had sex in two days.
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"guts", fortitude, moral strength
John didn't have the balls to quit his job, divorce his wife, and start a new life in Tahiti.
ball
Verb
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If you ball something up, you make it into a ball shape.
Ball the cookie dough, wrap it in paper, then freeze it.
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sexual intercourse.
gate
Noun
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A gate is like a door in a fence. It opens to let people go through the fence.
Please open the gate for me; my hands are full.
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In computers and logic, a gate is something that gives a simple yes-or-no answer from two (or one, or more than two) yes-or-no things coming into it.
We need one more "and"-gate here so that it will give the finished answer.
array
Noun
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An array is a display or range of a particular type of thing.
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Common name for matrix.
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An array is an elaborate or beautiful clothing.
array
Verb
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If you array someone, you dress someone in something.
He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
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If you array something, you display or arrange it in a particular way.