(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.
Kylie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
(2) Quit Victoria's acting executive director, Kylie Lindorff, said the research proved the legislation had worked in terms of reducing the appeal of cigarettes, but longer-term research was being carried out to determine if it led more smokers to quit.
(3) He said: "I wept like a child" when Kylie Minogue said she would be in it.
(4) She left the soap in 1988 following the release of her debut album, Kylie.
(5) The player’s girlfriend, Natasha Massey, and his sister Kylie appeared on ITV’s This Morning to insist on his innocence (“Just because 12 people found him guilty, people should not necessarily listen to them,” said Kylie Evans).
(6) Kylie has gone through four reincarnations; Michael Jackson, for obvious reasons, 13.
(7) Only Bradford in 2003 and St Helens in 2006 had won the domestic treble before, but Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai ended their rugby league careers by ensuring Leeds became the third member of this most illustrious club.
(8) Or if Kelly Rowland has got over that mysterious debilitating throat infection which comes on every time she thinks of the heyday of Destiny's Child and juxtaposes it with watching a skeleton in a TK Maxx tracksuit doing falsetto Kylie Minogue.
(9) Not under my name, under my club or community.” She was immediately branded a hypocrite by Evans’s sister Kylie, who retweeted a message the presenter posted last month saying she wanted to get a photograph of former heavyweight boxing champion and convicted rapist Mike Tyson.
(10) When Clarkson first met Barnett, she was still a jobbing dancer, performing cabaret shows in London and later working as backing dancer for singers including Kylie Minogue, Cheryl Cole and Jessie J, but “always doing music in some way, always writing”.
(11) Pictures of racehorses adorn the cream and pink walls, a flatscreen TV plays songs by Oasis and Kylie Minogue, and laminated menus offer English-style pub grub such as a full breakfast or fish and chips.
(12) Minogue was praised for talking openly about her illness and this may have saved lives: a study at Sydney University found an increase in bookings for breast screening following the singer's diagnosis, a so-called "Kylie effect" .
(13) Stephen Moss Turn It Into Love – Kylie Minogue In 1989 I was 11 years old, I'd just started secondary school and I'd fallen in love for the first time.
(14) What we need is a Kylie moment”, said Newsom-Davis, referring to how breast cancer became a mainstream issue after the singer was diagnosed with the disease.
(15) Stenberg had been criticised for calling out Kylie Jenner’s culturally appropriated cornrows , but did not stay silent.
(16) Kylie managed to tremble to the church, but cracked somewhere around the renounce all evil part of the ceremony.
(17) I was always used to guess when rewinding or fast forwarding to find the track i needed" tobyd – Use Your Illusion 2 by Guns N' Roses: "school trip to France in '91 or '92, many hours in a coach listening to Use Your Illusion 2 by Guns N' Roses" catfacebaldwin – Kylie: "My first Walkman was a yellow Sony complete with a Kylie album.
(18) To illustrate the point with trivial stereotypical examples from British society: just as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates."
(19) Outgoing EMI chief Roger Faxon has confirmed that labels such as Parlophone, whose roster includes Coldplay, Lilly Allen and Kylie Minogue, will now be brought together as a separate unit, managed independently of Universal, and report to someone appropriately called the "hold separate manager" – much like an air traffic controller, keeping the artists in a plane-like holding pattern, before they're sold off.
(20) Among his early clients were the pop songwriting and production team Stock Aitken Waterman , who introduced him to Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.