(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.
Cork
Definition:
(n.) The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.
(n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork.
(n.) A mass of tabular cells formed in any kind of bark, in greater or less abundance.
(v. t.) To stop with a cork, as a bottle.
(v. t.) To furnish or fit with cork; to raise on cork.
Example Sentences:
(1) So, for example, Cork City's first-leg victory over Apollon Limassol in the first qualifying round of this season's Champions League means one point will be added to the League of Ireland's coefficient next season - but not to Cork's.
(2) The tendon is threaded through a hole in the distal phalanx from the dorsal to the palmar side and impacted like a cork to create an immediate strong fixation.
(3) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(4) There has been some patching up to do in midfield in recent weeks and that is going to continue for some time, as Morgan Schneiderlin will miss the match against United and Jack Cork, his usual deputy, is out for up to two months.
(5) "I think I heard the putt-putt of champagne corks popping in No 11," one Tory said.
(6) Apple’s Irish offices are based near Knocknaheeny, an impoverished northern suburb of Cork.
(7) This built-in element consists of a drummed (milled) cap reinforced with cast resin, and a cork bedding.
(8) So basically, if UK votes to leave, either Northern Ireland joins with Ireland or I’ll have to leave Northern Ireland and move to Dublin, or Cork, or Edinburgh.
(9) A cross-sectional study on suberosis was conducted to determine the prevalence of respiratory symptoms and the level of pulmonary function, and their relationships within job categories of exposure to cork dust, toluene diisocyanate (TDI) resin bonding and conidia, among cork workers.
(10) Measurements were made in phantoms containing aluminum or cork inhomogeneities.
(11) Various aspects relating to the accuracy of density scaling for air and cork slab inhomogeneities are discussed.
(12) By taking art out of the gallery and sticking it up, unannounced, in the street, he fostered the idea that he was returning art to the people, a graphic Robin Hood set against the feudal grip of Mayfair's Cork Street.
(13) The cork layer of the potato peel prevents dehydration of the wound and protects against exogenous agents.
(14) Some say it's best to bang them against a stone wall or step, others that they should be brined, and others still advocate popping a wine cork into the cooking pot.
(15) Later, during the early 1930s, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, but soon began to spend more time in the galleries in and around Cork Street, only a stone's throw away from academia, and the pre-war powerhouse of the modern spirit.
(16) We have preferably employed the so called "inverted graft", while Regnauld, in his recent monography, defines it less satisfactory than the "cork" or "hat" shaped grafts.
(17) Photograph: PR We followed her advice, walking down to the stream in search of terrapins and otters, or through clusters of cork oak trees, their branches hairy with lichen like the ancient trees of a fairytale forest.
(18) Last weekend, 82,000 people wearing the red and white of Cork or the yellow and blue of Clare watched their heroes play out what many regard as the greatest All-Ireland hurling final.
(19) Sandbech, McMorris and Winter X Games champion Max Parrot were among those who threw the much-ballyhooed triple cork, which is three head-over-heels flips considered way more dangerous and athletic and presumed to be the must-have trick to win the first Olympic gold in this sport’s history.
(20) The gifted Cork hurler confessed he had “slept better before AI final (All-Ireland)“ than he had on Thursday night.