bat
蝙蝠,击球,蝠,蝙蝠的
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Definitions
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- : Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball.a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis.a whip used by a jockey.the act of using a club or racket in a game.the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- : a heavy stick, club, or cudgel.
- : Informal. a blow, as with a bat.
- : any fragment of brick or hardened clay.
- : Masonry. a brick cut transversely so as to leave one end whole.
- : British Slang. speed; rate of motion or progress, especially the pace of the stroke or step of a race.
- : Slang. a spree; binge: to go on a bat.
- : Ceramics. a sheet of gelatin or glue used in bat printing. a slab of moist clay.a ledge or shelf in a kiln.a slab of plaster for holding a piece being modeled or for absorbing excess water from slip.
- : batt.
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bat·ted, bat·ting.
- : to strike or hit with or as if with a bat or club.
- : Baseball. to have a batting average of; hit: He batted .325 in spring training.
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bat·ted, bat·ting.
- : Sports. to strike at the ball with the bat.to take one's turn as a batter.
- : Slang. to rush.
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- : bat around, Slang.to roam; drift. Informal.to discuss or ponder; debate: We batted the idea around.Baseball.to have every player in the lineup take a turn at bat during a single inning.
- : bat in, Baseball. to cause to be scored by getting a hit: He batted in two runs with a double to left.
- : bat out, to do, write, produce, etc., hurriedly: I have to bat out a term paper before class.
Phrases
- bat an eye
- bat around
- bat one thousand
- bats in one's belfry, have
- bat the breeze
- bats in one's belfry
- at bat
- blind as a bat
- go to bat for
- like a bat out of hell
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Examples
We can’t hear things that dogs can hear, we can’t see things that bats can see.
When Lou Brock, who died Sunday at age 81, came up to bat, I booed him because, well, he was on the other team.
He and his team located three bat colonies, each with 200 or more bats, and smeared the backs of 20 to 60 animals in each colony with a gel containing a biomarker that made their hair fluoresce if they ingested it.
Upon the animal’s return to its colony, other bats would groom it and get exposed to the vaccine too.
That’s because these digital titles have the existing audiences from their other verticals that the new vertical can appeal to off the bat.
Instead, he gives his very best effort and tries to win the World Series with a single swing of his bat.
Right off the bat, papyrologist Brice C. Jones noted that something was awry.
It can be really good if somebody is an amazing talent right off the bat or it can highlight your flaws.
But she was very abusive to the girls, with punishments ranging from being called ugly to getting beaten with a baseball bat.
As a result, many bat species are finding their homes and food sources gone.
After a few seconds of listening Bat nodded vigorously, and closed the door.
When the first sunbeam gleamed through the window of Bat's tiny kitchen, I arose, pulled on my boots and went to feed my horse.
A little later Bat spread a bed for me on the kitchen floor, and I turned in.
He's very tall an' gran', an' w'ars fine close, an' han's is white as a cotton bat, but his eyes doan set right in his head.
Black Hood sprang out from the pole, swooped down upon the messenger like a huge black bat.