Bat
[bæt]
Definition
(noun.) (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; 'he was at bat when it happened'; 'he got four hits in four at-bats'.
(noun.) nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate.
(noun.) a club used for hitting a ball in various games.
(verb.) wink briefly; 'bat one's eyelids'.
(verb.) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; 'bat the ball'.
(verb.) use a bat; 'Who's batting?'.
(verb.) have a turn at bat; 'Jones bats first, followed by Martinez'.
Checked by Helena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
(n.) Shale or bituminous shale.
(n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
(n.) A part of a brick with one whole end.
(v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
(v. i.) To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
(n.) One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
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Definition
n. a heavy stick: a flat club for striking the ball in cricket a club for base-balls a batsman: the clown's sword in a pantomime: a piece of brick: (slang) rate of speed style.—v.i. to use the bat in cricket:—pr.p. bat′ting; pa.p. bat′ted.—ns. Bat′ter Bats′man one who wields the bat at cricket &c.; Bat′ting the management of a bat in playing games: cotton fibre prepared in sheets.
n. an animal with a body like a mouse but which flies on wings attached mainly to its fore-feet but extending along its sides to the hind-feet.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Awful is the fate of the unfortunate dreamer of this ugly animal. Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you. Death of parents and friends, loss of limbs or sight, may follow after a dream of these ghoulish monsters. A white bat is almost a sure sign of death. Often the death of a child follows this dream.
Typed by Ferris
Unserious Contents or Definition
Senior partner of Bat, Ball & Co., and never found without the rest of the firm, as it takes several high-balls to make one short bat.
Edited by Lancelot
Examples
- Death on the cards, love in the stars, and the muttered prophecies of crouching hags, terrified at the omen of flying bat, of shrieking night-bird. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She too was fascinated by him, fascinated, as if some strange creature, a rabbit or a bat, or a brown seal, had begun to talk to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They must have had a grotesque resemblance to heraldic dragons, and they played the part of bat-like birds in the Mesozoic jungles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Most of his teeth are gone, and he is as blind as bat. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One large company alone manufactures 500,000 cues every year, and we must remember that a billiard cue, unlike a baseball bat, can be repaired and lasts for many years. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His fine, black hair somehow reminded her of a bat, thin as it was on his full, sensitive-looking head, and worn away at the temples. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The application of oil colours and designs to ware before baking by the bat system of printing originated in the eighteenth and was perfected in the nineteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I'm like a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty and knows he's no better. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It would have been as easy for the heath-ponies, bats, and snakes to be vulgar as for her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Among mammals, we see it strikingly displayed in Bats, and in a lesser degree in the Felidae and Canidae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Lyell asks, and assigns certain reasons in answer, why have not seals and bats given birth on such islands to forms fitted to live on the land? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is certain that insects and blood-sucking bats determine the existence of the larger naturalised quadrupeds in several parts of South America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In such a case, it is important not to use cotton batting, since this sticks to the rough surface and causes pain when removed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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