What's the difference between batman and batsman?

Batman


Definition:

  • (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
  • (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
  • (2) For my money, Batman should be teamed up with the Burka Avenger .
  • (3) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
  • (4) North American box office estimates, 8-10 April The Boss: $23.48m - NEW Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: $23.435m.
  • (5) But it also succeeded by elevating the likes of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo to the kind of status usually reserved for totemic superheroes such as Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, characters destined to be wheeled out time and time again in different big screen iterations.
  • (6) Talking of Batman, what about those rumours that he's been spotted on the set of Christopher Nolan's current movie, The Dark Knight Rises?
  • (7) Jim Carrey, his Batman Forever co-star, said he “scared the hell out of me”.
  • (8) Miles, a Batman fan, had one wish: “To be Batkid.” Make-a-Wish reached out through email and social networks, asking for help making Miles’s wish come true.
  • (9) They are making a big play for more content and Time Warner has some of the best global franchises you could hope to have – look at Harry Potter, Batman and HBO.” Time Warner’s lucrative cable channel business includes TNT, TBS and HBO, home to shows including Game of Thrones.
  • (10) US diplomats believe Medvedev is "Robin to Putin's Batman" and Putin will try to get back the post he held from 2000 to 2008, according to documents disclosed by WikiLeaks earlier this month.
  • (11) Batman v Superman this week became the highest-grossing superhero film of 2016 so far, overtaking Deadpool, and is the second highest-grossing movie overall behind Zootopia (Zootropolis in the UK).
  • (12) The pilot for the plan is The Dark Knight , Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman blockbuster – currently No 7 on the list of all-time box-office grossers, and holder of several sales records for DVD and Blu-Ray.
  • (13) It is, however, good to see more obscure members of Batman's rogue's gallery given the spotlight.
  • (14) And for the next few years Batman dropped out of the global conversation.
  • (15) Maybe instead of being assembled in different formations – such as the Marvel Avengers, or Superman and Batman – American superheroes could benefit from a sort of cultural exchange programme.
  • (16) Batman Forever was not very good and Batman & Robin was terrible.
  • (17) More on Ben Affleck as Batman • News: Ben Affleck signs up for Batman role • Peter Bradshaw: Ben Affleck is perfect for Batman ... as director, not star
  • (18) In fact, I struggle to think of something more emasculating for Batman than that – and that's before you consider that Catwoman apparently does it for him with a big, phallic rocket.
  • (19) Summerville hinted that Affleck would eventually make for a seriously beefy Batman .
  • (20) PSG’s official account tweeted a Vine on Tuesday afternoon with the supporting video flicking through various masked movie characters and superheroes, from Batman to Zorro, Spider-Man to Darth Vader, Iron Man to Kylo Ren.

Batsman


Definition:

  • (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some slow bowlers can induce the batsman to misjudge where the ball will hit the ground.
  • (2) If the batsman's head is directly in the line of flight, the velocity ratio of the retinal images in the left and right eyes provides a precise cue to the trajectory of the ball in the horizontal plane.
  • (3) The bowler's applying the pressure, the batsman's on the defensive.
  • (4) Buttler, 23 years of age, was mesmerising and England’s best batsman by a very disturbing margin, though Ravi Bopara hit a commendable 51 off 47 balls.
  • (5) A year ago, he wasn't simply an outstanding batsman but an epochal, barely believable phenomenon.
  • (6) The man to captain was Frank Worrell, a great batsman, a great cricketing mind, and an extraordinary human being.
  • (7) Karunaratne tries his best to run Sangakkara out by sending back with the new batsman wanting to take a quick single.
  • (8) Sachin Tendulkar, who yesterday became the first batsman to score 50 centuries in Test cricket, was left stranded on 111 as the tourists' two remaining wickets fell cheaply.
  • (9) I want to give it a go, I want to test myself as a coach," said Wright, a former Kiwi batsman.
  • (10) In contrast, an analysis of handedness in top batsman, as measured by bowling hand, failed to find any evidence of a handedness effect.
  • (11) And agreed on Morgan, but it's beginning to look like he might be the latest Test-class batsman not to make it at Test level.
  • (12) After compiling an extraordinarily brave double century against India in the tied Test at Chennai in 1985, Australian batsman Dean Jones described what it was like to bat in infernal conditions: “When you’re urinating in your pants and vomiting 15 times, you’ve got massive problems.” When finally dismissed for 210, Jones was taken to hospital on a saline drip.
  • (13) Rogers offered one last demonstration for the summer of the skill and grit with which he finally established himself as a Test batsman at the age of 35 – he turned 36 in August – although he also had to ride his luck to make 65 from 85 balls on a seaming Headingley pitch.
  • (14) To hit the ball with the centre of percussion of a bat so that the ball goes where he intends it to go, a batsman must estimate visually where the ball will be at a specific future time (when), and coordinate his swing accordingly.
  • (15) But only part of the necessary information about position (ie where) is available to the batsman.
  • (16) It was the second notable feat achieved by an Indian batsman after Rahul Dravid became the third man, after Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, to reach 12,000 runs in Test cricket.
  • (17) After all the point of the sledging is to distract the batsman from playing the proper shot."
  • (18) Sachin Tendulkar today became the first batsman to score 50 centuries in Test cricket.
  • (19) That is the element of bat versus ball and there has got to be a little bit of an element of, not fear, but, as a batsman, you have to protect yourself and if you lose that I think it shifts the balance between bat and ball too firmly in the favour of the batsman.” Hughes was wearing a Masuri helmet when he was hit.
  • (20) The former England captain Nasser Hussain has called for cricket helmet manufacturers to consider new methods of protecting players after the death of the Australia batsman Phillip Hughes .