What's the difference between baseball and bat?

Baseball


Definition:

  • (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
  • (n.) The ball used in this game.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
  • (2) Fenway, which also owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team, bought Liverpool for £300m in 2010 and pledged to return the club to the top of English football, following what was then a 20-year gap since the club last won the top flight.
  • (3) The San Francisco Giants are baseball's new comeback kings and will face the Detroit Tigers in the 2012 World Series.
  • (4) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
  • (5) Even baseball, the country's favourite sport, is showing signs of change.
  • (6) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
  • (7) Not quite "you can't predict baseball", but in the range.
  • (8) This may sound crazy, but with each passing day, Major League Soccer, which shares part of sporting calendar with the baseball season, becomes more and more of a long term threat to MLB, never mind what happens when the NFL kicks off in September.
  • (9) Nicknamed “Mr Padre”, the left-hander had a 20-year career in Major League Baseball , all of it with San Diego.
  • (10) Although it's not nearly as surprising as the Pittsburgh Pirates fighting toward the playoffs after 20 years of losing seasons , or the Kansas City Royals playing meaningful, September baseball for the first time in over a decade , but since stealing manager John Farrell away from the Toronto Blue Jays, the Red Sox have established themselves as the best team in the American League despite preseason predictions dooming them to repeat as the worst.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rodriguez, who has been recovering from offseason hip surgery and who stands to lose more than $35m on the remaining portion of his contract should the reported suspension be carried out, has a team of lawyers working to battle the office of the commissioner on any penalties, despite MLBPA union head Michael Weiner reaching out to baseball's brass to try to hammer out a late deal on Saturday, an offer that was rejected by the sport's ruling body.
  • (12) Data were examined for 47 (30) professional baseball players over a 2-yr. (3-yr.) period.
  • (13) And Eurie Stamp, a grandfather of 12, who was sitting watching baseball on TV in his pajamas in Farmington, Massachusetts, in January 2011 when a Swat team battered down his door, threw a flashbang device into the room and forced him to lie facedown on the floor.
  • (14) Shoppers could buy USA baseball caps and Trump T-shirts, then pose for a photo against an image of the White House.
  • (15) All participated in sports that involved throwing (mostly professional baseball), and all had valgus instability of the elbow.
  • (16) The concept of a sponsor being given naming rights to a stadium is fairly new to the UK but has been common practice in the US for some time, with companies paying up to £9m a year to have baseball and American football stadiums named after them.
  • (17) I was turned into this figurehead for baseball players trying to be more political,” he says.
  • (18) As for a more permanent solution, it’s now up to Cromartie and the Montreal Baseball Project to try to take advantage of the momentum, seek to form a would-be local ownership group, secure government stadium funding and begin the process of trying to lure the two teams with outstanding stadium issues, Tampa Bay and Oakland, over to Montreal.
  • (19) All of the pitchers returned to professional or college league baseball without recurrence of the ulcer.
  • (20) All four pitchers returned to professional baseball the year following surgical excision of the bursa.

Bat


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (2) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
  • (3) Echo delay discrimination by the bat Eptesicus fuscus had been investigated in an experiment with simulated targets jittering in range (Simmons 1979).
  • (4) Additionally, in a group of bats, HRP was injected into various functionally (i.e., BF) identified regions of the central nucleus of the inferior coliculus (IC) to clarify the type and location of CN projecting neurons.
  • (5) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
  • (6) Bats infected with the high dose had viable H. capsulatum in the lungs, liver, spleen and gut as early as 2 weeks post-infection.
  • (7) Sympathetic activation of lipogenesis in BAT is not solely attributable to the action of noradrenaline but involves some non-adrenergic mechanism.
  • (8) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
  • (9) The relationship between the meal-induced increase in brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis, determined by the level of GDP binding to BAT mitochondria, and thyroid hormone metabolism have been examined.
  • (10) Plasma steroid binding was examined in samples obtained from seven species of bats representing four different families.
  • (11) Several haematological and biochemical parameters were measured in the erythrocytes of the grey-headed fruit bat.
  • (12) Rates of fatty acid synthesis in liver and BAT were several times greater than that in WAT.
  • (13) We also identified UCP in eight cases in group B, in five cases in group C and six cases in group D. The human H-UCP-0.5 genomic probe detected a typical BAT mRNA in the periadrenal adipose tissue of all subjects of groups B, C and D showing a positive Western blot.
  • (14) The 1,400 victims are those who had actually experienced sexual exploitation.” Determined that no one could bat away her findings, she had produced a 153-page report that spelled out in plain language the appalling abuse suffered by children aged 10-16 in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
  • (15) Excision of BAT, but not white adipose tissue increased RGE susceptibility of 21w rats.
  • (16) When the reference target to which the bats were trained was presented, targets differing in internal delay by about 1 microseconds were discriminated.
  • (17) The results suggest that BAT contains two different pathways for regulation of lipoprotein lipase activity, both involving mRNA synthesis.
  • (18) Bats have maximum life spans a minimum of 3 times those of nonflying eutherians--a trend resulting from neither low basal metabolic rate, the ability to enter torpor, nor large relative brain size.
  • (19) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
  • (20) However, in both LSO and MSO there is an expanded representation of the frequencies around 60 kHz, the main frequency component of the bat's echolocation call; there is another expanded representation of the range around 90 kHz, the third harmonic of the call.

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