Lob vs. Volley — What's the Difference?

To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc

A simultaneous discharge of a number of bullets or other projectiles.

To hit a ball in a high arc.

The bullets or projectiles so discharged.

To move heavily or clumsily.

A group of remarks, expressions, or actions directed toward a certain recipient or audience

A ball hit, thrown, or propelled in a high arc.

An exchange of strokes in a court game, such as volleyball, ending when one side fails to make a good return and resulting in a point or the loss of service.

(Slang)A clumsy dull person; a lout.

A stroke, kick, or other strike of the ball made before the ball touches the ground.

(transitive) To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.

The flight of a ball before it touches the ground

To throw.

To discharge (projectiles) in a volley

To put, place.

(Sports) To strike (a tennis ball, for example) before it touches the ground.

To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.

To direct or send in a mass or series

To let fall heavily or lazily.

To be discharged in a volley.

A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.

(Sports) To make a volley, especially in tennis.

A lump.

To move or be directed rapidly, forcefully, or loudly in a mass or series

(obsolete) A country bumpkin; a yokel.

The simultaneous firing of a number of missiles or bullets; the projectiles so fired.

A clumsy person.

A burst or emission of many things at once.

The person who comes last in a race.

(sports) The flight of a ball just before it bounces.

A lob-worm.

(sports) A shot in which the ball is played before it hits the ground.

A fish, the European pollock.

(cricket) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.

A dull, heavy person.

(transitive) To fire a volley of shots

Something thick and heavy.

To hit the ball before it touches the ground

The European pollock.

(intransitive) To be fired in a volley

The act of lobbing;

To make a volley

To let fall heavily or lazily.

To sound together

To propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy.

A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.

An easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc

A burst or emission of many things at once; as, a volley of words.

The act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc

A return of the ball before it touches the ground.

Propel in a high arc;

To discharge with, or as with, a volley.

To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys.

To return the ball before it touches the ground.

Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms;

A tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces

Be dispersed in a volley;

Hit before it touches the ground;

Discharge in, or as if in, a volley;

Make a volley

Utter rapidly;