Get to know Flyball better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Flyball meaning
- Alternative spelling of fly ball.
- A type of dog-race where dogs jump over hurdles to get to and return from a tennis-ball dispensing box.
Using Flyball
- The main meaning on this page is: Alternative spelling of fly ball. | A type of dog-race where dogs jump over hurdles to get to and return from a tennis-ball dispensing box.
- In the example corpus, flyball often appears in combinations such as: the flyball, flyball systems, or flyball.
Context around Flyball
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Flyball
- In this selection, "flyball" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, early, infield, learned, systems, governor and component stand out and add context to how "flyball" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agility or flyball and agility or flyball because these. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "flyball" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with flyball
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Perhaps the best known is the flyball governor for a steam engine. (12 words)
Doolittle entered and got Gregory Polanco on an RBI grounder and retired Starling Marte on a flyball. (17 words)
Northeastern committed its second error, as right fielder Costello bobbled a flyball from Jimenez, allowing him to load the bases. (20 words)
State scratched across a run in the seventh and nearly grabbed the lead, but Mangum’s flyball to the wall in left field was caught as the UF outfielder corralled what would have scored two runs as he crashed into the wall. (42 words)
Teddy is a very high energy dog who will require lots of physical exercise and mental stimulation in order to meet his needs - he would be ideal to be trained in dog sports such as cani-cross, agility or flyball. (40 words)
In early flyball systems, the flyball component countered by a spring acted directly to the valve of the turbine or the wicket gate to control the amount of water that enters the turbines. (33 words)
Example sentences (15)
In early flyball systems, the flyball component countered by a spring acted directly to the valve of the turbine or the wicket gate to control the amount of water that enters the turbines.
A study of 1,300 animals found that activities such as Flyball - a type of relay race with teams of dogs - were "highly effective" at reducing anxiety.
Teddy is a very high energy dog who will require lots of physical exercise and mental stimulation in order to meet his needs - he would be ideal to be trained in dog sports such as cani-cross, agility or flyball.
Gyorko’s infield flyball rate more than doubled in 2019, and his isolated power was cut in half from his 2018 figure.
Heyward was originally called out on Martini’s throw home on Ian Happ’s flyball to left, but the call was overturned after a review and Happ was credited with a sacrifice fly.
Northeastern committed its second error, as right fielder Costello bobbled a flyball from Jimenez, allowing him to load the bases.
State scratched across a run in the seventh and nearly grabbed the lead, but Mangum’s flyball to the wall in left field was caught as the UF outfielder corralled what would have scored two runs as he crashed into the wall.
Doolittle entered and got Gregory Polanco on an RBI grounder and retired Starling Marte on a flyball.
Some dogs learn quickly — Ms. Kane boasts that her dog Moose, an Australian shepherd, learned Flyball in just three months — but others need more time.
An early mechanical governors is a servomechanism that comprises a series of gears that use the turbine's speed to drive the flyball and turbine's power to drive the control mechanism.
A variety of flyball systems, or first-generation governors, were used during the first 100 years of water turbine speed controls.
Fewer still excel in dog agility or flyball because these competitions favor smaller dogs with lower body weight and a much shorter stride.
In his 1868 paper "On Governors", James Clerk Maxwell was able to explain instabilities exhibited by the flyball governor using differential equations to describe the control system.
In the electronic governors, also known as second-generation governors, the flyball was replaced by rotational speed sensor but the controls were still done through analog systems.
Perhaps the best known is the flyball governor for a steam engine.
Common combinations with flyball
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the flyball 5×
- flyball systems 2×
- or flyball 2×
- flyball to 2×
- flyball governor 2×