{
    "term": "baseball",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "image": "data/images/sp/sports_team.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a game played especially in the US by two teams of nine players, using a bat and ball. Each player tries to hit the ball and then run around four bases before the other team can return the ball.",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **baseball bat/team/cap/fan/player/game**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to play **major league baseball**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a pair of baseball boots"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a baseball stadium"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["major-league", "minor-league", "Little League"],
                "verb + baseball": ["play", "coach", "follow"],
                "baseball + noun": ["game", "play-off", "player"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the ball used in this game",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + baseball": ["pitch", "throw", "toss"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "expert knowledge about baseball",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He taught New York baseball fans a good deal of inside baseball."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "technical information about any subject",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Readers weren't very interested in the inside baseball of the news business."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is inside baseball stuff."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbeɪsbɔːl/",
                "audio": "ba/baseball/baseball__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈbeɪsbɔːl/",
                "audio": "ba/baseball/baseball__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}
