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UK
/bˈæt/
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[ US /ˈbæt/ ]
[ US /ˈbæt/ ]
VERB
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beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
We licked the other team on Sunday! -
use a bat
Who's batting? -
strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
bat the ball -
have a turn at bat
Jones bats first, followed by Martinez -
wink briefly
bat one's eyelids
NOUN
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the club used in playing cricket
a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting - a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
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(baseball) a turn trying to get a hit
he was at bat when it happened
he got four hits in four at-bats - nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
- a club used for hitting a ball in various games
How To Use bat In A Sentence
- For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300. Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
- One was apparently faulty and the other did not have a battery.
- He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
- Twenty microliters of each antibody was added to 100 L of blood, and the mixture was incubated at room temperature for 15 minutes.
- The first batch of ten shows is seen as a test of viewer demand. Times, Sunday Times
- You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
- Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
- The reconnaissance is conducted by teams from the reconnaissance company of the airborne brigade and the reconnaissance platoon of an IFV-equipped airborne battalion or by a designated platoon of an airborne battalion. FM 100-61 Chptr 9 Artillery Support
- The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
- I could be wrong but as I recall in Batman Begins Batman 'growled' his lines just a few times but to very strong effect. All of The Dark Knight's Broken Records - Box Office Dominance! « FirstShowing.net
