bat
IPA: bˈæt
noun
- Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- (derogatory) An old woman.
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- A player rated according to skill in batting.
- (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
- (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
- (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
- (Kent, Sussex) A rough walking stick.
- (obsolete) A packsaddle.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) A child's shoe without a welt.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A boot that is badly made or in poor condition.
- Dated form of baht (“Thai currency”). [The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.]
- (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“buttocks or anus”). [(West Indian slang, MLE, MTE) The buttocks or anus.]
- (sports) Abbreviation of Bathurst. [A surname.]
- Initialism of best available technology: a principle applying to regulations on limiting pollutant discharges.
- Initialism of brown adipose tissue. [(anatomy, physiology) One of the two types of adipose tissue present in many newborn or hibernating mammals which primarily serves to generate body heat, and which contains several small vacuoles and a relatively high number of mitochondria and capillaries.]
verb
- (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
- (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
- (transitive) To flutter
- (US, UK, dialect) To wink.
- (intransitive, usually with 'around' or 'about') To flit quickly from place to place.
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Examples of "bat" in Sentences
- The proboscis bats live in groups.
- Elliott is the maker of the Buzz Cricket Bat.
- Bats in trees is great, but it's not arboriculture.
- The door is locked, and John is seen brandishing a baseball bat.
- The hand or glove holding the bat is considered part of the bat.
- The bat has a steel safety rod embedded in the foam center of the bat.
- Kelly holds an oversized cricket bat on the left and stands on the right.
- In the winter, noctule bats hibernate like all bats of the temperate zones.
- Harvey raised the bat and left it but the ball to cut back and hit the stumps.
- The barrel is the thick part of the bat, where the bat is meant to hit the ball.
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