volley, volleyball, port call for PLA

Port call a first for PLA Navy(RYUICHI MATSUZAWA/ THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)

Can't anyone find anything good to say about corporate IT? Its merits have been debated in MIT SMR since Andrew McAfee's 2004 article, "Do You Have Too Much IT?" and even before. We've gathered the best volleys in the argument into a new collection on the proper place of IT in the corporate spectrum.


volley (LOT)
noun [C usually singular]
a lot of similar things that are said or produced, or that happen, quickly one after the other:
I'm afraid my proposal was met with a volley of criticisms.volley (BULLETS)
noun [C]
a large number of bullets (seeming to be) fired at the same time:
Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.volley (SPORTS SHOT)
noun [C]
(in sports) a kick or hit in which a player returns a moving ball before it touches the ground:
That was a marvellous backhand volley.


━━ n. 一斉射撃; （弾丸・矢・石の）雨; （質問・悪口の）連発; 【テニス・フットボール】ボレー ((球が地につかない中に打返す［蹴返す］こと)).
━━ vt. 一斉射撃する; （質問などを）連発する; ボレーで打返す［蹴返す］.
━━ vi. 一斉に発射される; ボレーをする.
 volley・ball　━━ n. 【球技】バレーボール; そのボール. 排球



volley (BULLETS) Show phonetics
noun [C]a large number of bullets (seeming to be) fired at the same time:
Even as the funeral took place, guerrillas hidden nearby fired/let off a fresh volley of machine-gun fire.

volley (LOT) Show phonetics
noun [C usually singular]a lot of similar things that are said or produced, or that happen, quickly one after the other:
I'm afraid my proposal was met with a volley of criticisms.

volley (SPORTS SHOT) Show phoneticsnoun [C](in sports) a kick or hit in which a player returns a moving ball before it touches the ground:
That was a marvellous backhand volley.
volley Show phoneticsverb [I or T]

━━ n. 一斉射撃; （弾丸・矢・石の）雨; （質問・悪口の）連発; 【テニス・フットボール】ボレー ((球が地につかない中に打返す［蹴返す］こと)).
━━ vt. 一斉射撃する; （質問などを）連発する; ボレーで打返す［蹴返す］.
━━ vi. 一斉に発射される; ボレーをする.


volley・ball　━━ n. 【球技】バレーボール; そのボール. 排球

On this date in 1895, William G. Morgan created the game of Mintonette, designed to be somewhat easier than basketball and incorporating some of the facets of basketball,
handball and tennis. A year later, at its first exhibition match in Springfield, MA, someone in the audience remarked on the way the ball was volleyed back and forth and suggested the game be called volleyball. Though volleyball was originally developed as an indoor sport, it gained popularity as a beach sport and in 1996 beach volleyball was added as an official sport to the Olympics.

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"A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about." — Newt Gingrich



port call
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port of call noun [C]
a place where you stop for a short time, especially on a journey

port of call　寄港地［港］; 旅行の立ち寄り先, 行きつけの場所.

中共解放軍 People's Liberation Army

PLA
The armed forces of the Communist-led People's Republic of China. Created on August 1, 1927, the PLA, led by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, used both guerrilla and conventional methods to defeat the Nationalist Chinese forces of Chiang Kai-shek in the Chinese civil war of 1945-1949. The PLA provided the leadership, matefriel, and manpower for the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) in the Korean War.