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   bat

   /bat/

   noun

   • 1. an implement with a handle and a solid surface, typically of wood, used for hitting the ball in games such as cricket, baseball, and table tennis: "a cricket bat"
   • ▪ a turn at playing with a bat.
   • ▪ a person batting, especially in cricket: "the team's opening bat"
   • ▪ each of a pair of objects resembling table tennis bats, used by a person on the ground to guide a taxiing aircraft.
   • ▪ a slab on which pottery is formed, dried, or fired.

   verb

   • 1. (of a sports team or player) take the role of hitting rather than throwing the ball: "Australia reached 263 for 4 after choosing to bat"
   • 2. hit at (someone or something) with the flat of one's hand: "he batted the flies away"

   Word Origin late Old Englishbatt ‘club, stick, staff’, perhaps partly from Old French batte, from battre ‘to strike’.

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   What does bat mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! BAT definition: 1. a specially shaped piece of wood used for hitting the ball in some games: 2. a small animal…. Learn more.

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   What is a bat used for?

   • a piece of wood with a handle, made in various shapes and sizes, and used for hitting the ball in games such as baseball, cricket and table tennis Want to learn more? an animal like a mouse with wings that flies and feeds at night (= it is nocturnal). There are many types of bat. see also fruit bat, old bat, vampire bat Topics Animals c1

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   What does batted mean in slang?

   • , bat·ted, bat·ting. to strike or hit with or as if with a bat or club. He batted .325 in spring training. , bat·ted, bat·ting. Sports. to strike at the ball with the bat. to take one's turn as a batter. Slang. to roam; drift. We batted the idea around. Baseball. to have every player in the lineup take a turn at bat during a single inning.

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   What is right off the bat?

   • (especially North American English, informal) immediately; without delay We both liked each other right off the bat. Foreign aid is one of the issues we have to deal with right off the bat. Definition of bat noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera (/ k aɪ ˈ r ɒ p t ə r ə /). With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most birds, flying with their very long spread-out digits covered with a thin membrane or patagium.

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   A bat is used in the sports of baseball and cricket to hit a small, hard ball. In baseball, a bat can be made out of wood or aluminum. Bat can be a verb as well: when you're up at bat in a baseball game, it means it's your turn to bat with the bat.

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   Bat definition: the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball.. See examples of BAT used in a sentence.

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