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- adjective sports, billiards, snooker, pool Describes a shot where the
cue ball and the object ball make contact at a natural 45º angle. So called because the view from the cue ball is half eclipsing the object ball.
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Examples
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To improve my balance, Beven puts me through a series of lunges and squats, sometimes done with weights, with my feet on a half-ball, a rounded platform that forces my core muscles to engage and keep me upright.
A Dreamer's Run: Can professional training improve a middle-age runner's marathon time? 2010
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You don't hear them talking much about how well they held their form while balancing on a bosu — a half-ball/half disc contraption — doing lightweight bicep curls.
Hit the Floor and Give Me a Dozen...Pillar Bridges Kevin Helliker 2010
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You don't hear them talking much about how well they held their form while balancing on a bosu — a half-ball/half disc contraption — doing lightweight bicep curls.
Hit the Floor and Give Me a Dozen...Pillar Bridges Kevin Helliker 2010
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You don't hear them talking much about how well they held their form while balancing on a bosu — a half-ball/half disc contraption — doing lightweight bicep curls.
Hit the Floor and Give Me a Dozen...Pillar Bridges Kevin Helliker 2010
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The ladybug on top of the cake is made with the Wilton half-ball cake pan.
Little Lady Bug Cake 2005
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Most notable was a splendid green half-ball mottled with white and blue.
HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
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It looks like a half-ball of silver; this appearance is due to a quantity of air.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children W. Houghton
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The planet's surface became a half-ball, of which a part lay in darkness.
Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935
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The great half-ball of metal loomed larger and larger but did not appear to grow nearer as Sally practiced first aid.
Space Platform Murray Leinster 1935
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There was a thin thread of white that ran across the dun-colored range and reached that half-ball and then ended.
Space Platform Murray Leinster 1935
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