baseball

noun/ˈbeɪs.bɔːl//ˈbeɪs.bɔl/
  1. 1.

    bóng chày

    A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.

    • It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
    • “Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.
    ballball
  2. 2.

    bóng chày

    The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

    ⚠ Học sinh hay viết 'một quả bóng chày'; đúng phải là 'một bóng chày' vì từ 'bóng' đã mang nghĩa là quả bóng rồi.

    ℹ Trong tiếng Việt, khi danh từ đã bao hàm nghĩa của vật thể hình cầu, ta không cần lặp lại từ loại 'quả' nếu đã có từ chỉ định đi kèm.

    • The reason we have for so long been unaware that the universe evolves probabilistically is that for the relatively large, everyday objects we typically encounter -- baseballs, flowerpots, the Moon -- quantum mechanics shows that the probabilities become highly skewed, hugely favoring one outcome and effectively suppressing all others. […] With such a skewed probability, the quantum reasoning goes, we have long overlooked the tiny chance that the baseball can (and, on extraordinarily rare occasions, will) land somewhere completely different.
    • He threw the baseball toward the catcher.Anh ấy ném quả bóng chày về phía người bắt bóng.
  3. 3.

    trò chơi bài baseball

    A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

    ℹ Vì đây là một biến thể chuyên biệt của trò chơi bài, người Việt thường giữ nguyên tên tiếng Anh 'baseball' để tránh nhầm lẫn với môn thể thao bóng chày.

    • We played a game of baseball last night.Tối qua chúng tôi đã chơi một ván trò chơi bài baseball.