What's the difference between bat and pipistrelle?
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.
Pipistrelle
Definition:
(n.) A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called also flittermouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seven species were represented among the specimens found to be rabid; there were 32 big brown bats, three hoary bats, three silver-haired bats, two little brown bats, one eastern pipistrelle, one Keen myotis and one red bat.
(2) When researchers ran the genetic sequence through a library of known coronaviruses, it closely matched a strain that resides in pipistrelle bats.
(3) Mammary cell differentiation was measured in lactating pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) by assay of key enzyme activities, and by determination of protein and lactose synthesis rates in short-term tissue cultures.
(4) The eastern pipistrelle stores epididymal spermatozoa throughout hibernation, a time when the testes are involuted but accessory gland activity is maintained.
(5) This suggests that in torpid pipistrelles the glottis may remain open during apnea, allowing a significant diffusive influx of O2 into the lungs.
(6) The Eastern pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus) is typical of exceptionally small bats capable of a 30-fold range in aerobic metabolism as they arouse from hypothermia and sustain foraging flight.
(7) Look and listen out for Pipistrelle bats leaving their roosts to hunt for small insects; nightjars chasing moths; the occasional cow, employed to keep down the scrub.
(8) Interscapular adipose tissue of suckling and adult pipistrelle bats was examined for the presence of the 32,000 Mr "uncoupling protein" diagnostic of brown adipose tissue.
(9) There’s also brown long-eared, natterers, pipistrelles,” he said.
(10) The eastern pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus) resembles the canyon bat (P. hesperus) in that some testicular spermatozoa persist during winter.
(11) Look and listen out for Foxes, badgers, pipistrelle bats and the occasional roe deer.
(12) Oxygen consumption and evaporation were measured in a single pregnant pipistrelle bat during labour and parturition of twins, using an open-flow respirometry system.
(13) Many aspects of the reproductive anatomy and chronology of these two species are similar; however, eastern pipistrelles apparently lack a seminal vesicle and possess a distinctly different baculum.
(14) Using previously published values for O2 consumption (VO2) in torpid pipistrelles, and tidal volume and O2 extraction efficiency at 4 degrees C in torpid bats of the same mean size (6.2 g), we calculated that at 4 degrees C ventilation would, on average, supply only 14.2-21.3% of VO2.
(15) It is concluded that interscapular adipose tissue in pipistrelle bats exhibits the critical biochemical criterion for being designated functionally "brown".
(16) The collection included 43 big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus), 43 little brown brown bats (Myotis lucifugus), and 33 eastern pipistrelles (Pipistrellus subflavus).
(17) Immunoreactivity was, however, evident in mitochondria from perirenal or interscapular adipose tissue from a range of mammals--rats, mice, golden hamsters, Orkney voles, wood mice, pipistrelle bats, wood lemmings, and newborn lambs, cattle, reindeer and red deer.
(18) The major reproductive events in the male eastern pipistrelle, are similar to those of other hibernating vespertilionids.
(19) The arrhythmic breathing pattern of torpid female pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) was monitored using Doppler radar.