soccer, association football
(noun) a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents’ goal
Source: WordNet® 3.1
soccer (uncountable)
association football
Synonyms: association football (UK, formal, rarely used), soccer football, football (ambiguous), Thesaurus:football
• football (“soccer”) is more commonly used in the UK, Ireland, and many other places in the world, with the exception of the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa.
soccer (third-person singular simple present soccers, present participle soccering, simple past and past participle soccered)
(Australian rules football) To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
• Croces, escroc, scorce
Source: Wiktionary
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.