The difference between Football and Gridiron football

When used as nouns, football means a sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team, whereas gridiron football means collectively, canadian football and american football.

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  1. Football as a noun (general):

    A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

    Examples:

    "Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football."

  2. Football as a noun (UK, uncountable):

    Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

    Examples:

    "Each team scored three goals when they played football."

  3. Football as a noun (US, uncountable):

    American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

    Examples:

    "Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football."

  4. Football as a noun (Canada, uncountable):

    Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

    Examples:

    "They played football in the snow."

  5. Football as a noun (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable):

    Australian rules football.

  6. Football as a noun (Ireland, uncountable):

    Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.

  7. Football as a noun (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable):

    rugby league.

  8. Football as a noun (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand):

    rugby union.

  9. Football as a noun (countable):

    The ball used in any game called "football".

    Examples:

    "The player kicked the football."

  10. Football as a noun (uncountable):

    Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

  11. Football as a noun (figuratively, countable):

    An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

    Examples:

    "That budget item became a political football."

  12. Football as a noun (slang, US, countable):

    The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

  1. Gridiron football as a noun:

    collectively, Canadian football and American football

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