(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.
Batty
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(2) Violent relationships aren’t limited to black eyes so it’s vital women are empowered to deal with psychological abuse as well, Australian of the Year Rosie Batty says.
(3) Advocates for victims of domestic violence say they hope the inquest into the death of 11-year-old Luke Batty, who was assaulted and killed by his father, will identify the systemic failures that led to his death and expose a culture that too often blames victims.
(4) This was true of the judicial system too, with Anderson frequently challenging intervention orders so he could see Luke more frequently, but then not showing up to court and leaving Batty on her own to deal with the aftermath.
(6) In Frankston magistrates court last April, Goldsbrough heard an application by Rosie Batty to have the conditions on an intervention order further tightened to prevent Anderson, her ex-partner, from seeing Luke.
(7) It's enough to drive the reality-based viewer batty.
(8) He described Anderson as “highly intelligent,” “irrational,” and “calculated” in the violence he carried out against his former partner, Rosie Batty and their son.
(9) When Anderson killed Luke, there were four warrants out for his arrest and he was facing 11 criminal charges, mostly related to family violence against his ex-partner and Luke’s mother, Rosie Batty .
(10) Police can now act on the spot to protect victims whenever and wherever family violence occurs.” A coronial inquest is under way into the murder of Luke Batty by his father in February on a cricket field in Tyabb, Victoria.
(11) The blame for the death of Luke Batty , who in February last year was killed after being hit with a cricket bat and stabbed on a field in Tyabb, Victoria, lies solely with his father, Greg Anderson, who was probably mentally ill, a coroner has found.
(12) Batty’s 11-year-old son was killed by his father, Greg Anderson, during a cricket training session in the Victorian town of Tyabb in February.
(13) Batty could only make decisions for her and Luke based on what she knew, but she was often in the dark.
(14) Batty told the ABC in July that when he died Anderson doted on Luke and seemed to be a caring father.
(15) In May, the Australian government announced the formation of an advisory panel on domestic and sexual violence, headed up by Australian of the year, Rosie Batty, and former Victorian police chief, Ken Lay.
(16) "My comments were in no way directed to or about Rosie Batty, who was scheduled to appear on the show for a separate segment about a fundraiser for her late son Luke.
(17) They are on the last paragraph, one hears #EUCO October 18, 2012 Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) Everybody in French briefing room is getting ready for #Hollande presser #euco October 18, 2012 My colleague David Batty suggests the EU needs to introduce chess match style time control to make decisions.
(18) A lack of communication between police officers and an overreliance on a computer database system meant opportunities to arrest Greg Anderson in the months before he killed his 11-year-old son Luke Batty may have been missed, Melbourne coroner's court has heard.
(19) I started to wonder if this was was ever going to be resolved,” Batty said.
(20) A confluence of factors led to this outcome, including increased news reporting of domestic violence incidents, a renewed focus by police to tackle the issue, political leadership to bring domestic violence to the fore and the eloquent and powerful advocacy of Rosie Batty as Australian of the year in 2015 .