BAT
\bˈat], \bˈat], \b_ˈa_t]\
Definitions of BAT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
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a club used for hitting a ball in various games
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a bat used in playing cricket
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wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids"
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strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
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use a bat; "Who's batting?"
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(baseball) a turn batting; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got 4 hits in 4 at-bats"
By Princeton University
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have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
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a club used for hitting a ball in various games
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a bat used in playing cricket
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wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids"
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strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
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use a bat; "Who's batting?"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Shale or bituminous shale.
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A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
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A part of a brick with one whole end.
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To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
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To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
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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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Same as Tical, n., 1.
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To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
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To wink.
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In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
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A stroke; a sharp blow.
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A stroke of work.
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Rate of motion; speed.
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A spree; a jollification.
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Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Shale or bituminous shale.
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A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
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A part of a brick with one whole end.
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To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
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To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
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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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Same as Tical, n., 1.
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To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
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To wink.
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In badminton, tennis, and similar games, a racket.
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A stroke; a sharp blow.
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A stroke of work.
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Rate of motion; speed.
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A spree; a jollification.
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Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
By Noah Webster.
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A heavy wooden stick or club; the wooden club used in baseball, cricket, and similar games; a batsman; a brickbat or part of a brick; a nocturnal flying creature which has a soft furry body, and wings formed by a skin stretched between the fingers, legs, and tail, and which feeds on insects.
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To hit or strike.
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Batted.
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Batting.
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To use a club in baseball or cricket.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A heavy stick for beating or striking: a club for striking the ball in base-ball and cricket: a piece of brick.
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To use the bat in cricket:-pr.p. batting; pa.p. batted.
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An animal with a body like a mouse, but which flies on wings attached to its fore-feet.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To strike with or as with a bat.
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A stick for striking the ball in baseball, cricket, etc.
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A nocturnal mammal with limbs connected by a membrane to form wings.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A club, used in playing cricket ;-a sheet of cotton for quilting;- a piece of a brick.
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n. One of a class of mammals having a body resembling that of a mouse, and a kind of wings made by a membranous expansion stretching from the fore extremities to the tail.
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