VOLLEY
\vˈɒlɪ], \vˈɒlɪ], \v_ˈɒ_l_ɪ]\
Definitions of VOLLEY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise"
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a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
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utter rapidly; "volley a string of curses"
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discharge in, or as if in, a volley; "the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians"
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hit before it touches the ground; "volley the tennis ball"
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make a volley
By Princeton University
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rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise"
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a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces
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utter rapidly; "volley a string of curses"
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make a volley, as in a game of tennis
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discharge in, or as if in, a volley; "the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians"
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hit before it touches the ground; "volley the tennis ball"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
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A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.
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A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
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To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.
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To return the ball before it touches the ground.
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To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
By Oddity Software
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A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
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A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.
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A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
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To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.
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To return the ball before it touches the ground.
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To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
By Noah Webster.
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The throwing of many missiles at the same time; the missiles so thrown; a rapid discharge of a certain indicated number of rounds, by each gun of a battery or other unit, each gun firing. without regard to the others; hence. a sudden burst of any sort; as, a volley of words; a volley of thunder; the return of a ball at tennis before it reaches the ground.
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To discharge, or be discharged, suddenly and all together; as, the cannon volleyed and thundered.
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Volleyed.
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Volleying.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A flight of shot: the discharge of many small-arms at once: an outburst of many at once:-pl. VOLLEYS.
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To discharge in a volley.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A rhythmic succession of muscle-twitches artificially induced.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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