What's the difference between batsman and garden?

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 .

Garden


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
  • (n.) A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country.
  • (v. i.) To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.
  • (v. t.) To cultivate as a garden.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (2) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (3) Known as the Little House in the Garden, this temporary structure lasted over 50 years.
  • (4) In consequence of the findings the Netherlands Ministry for Housing, Physical Planning and Environment appropriated money to cleanup contaminated gardens.
  • (5) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
  • (6) We stayed at the Secret Garden Tulum Hotel (doubles from £63) which offers a green oasis at reasonable prices.
  • (7) Of the three main parties, the most promising ideas are housing zones and self-build for the Conservatives, Labour’s new homes corporations, and the strong garden cities offer from the Liberal Democrats .
  • (8) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England.” The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
  • (9) A Tory planning minister has admitted that the coalition's new wave of garden cities would not have to contain a single affordable home, despite Nick Clegg's claims that they would offer low-cost accommodation and help solve the UK's housing crisis.
  • (10) After a discussion concerning the facets of antifertility drugs linked with male or female fertility regulation, several selected examples are presented, which include yuehchukene (isolated from Murraya paniculata), pseudolarix acids A and B (from Pseudolarix kaempferi), mardekoside A (from Mardenia koi), gardenic acid and gardenodic acid A (from Gardenia jasminoides) as early pregnancy terminating agent, for fertility regulation in females; whereas gossypol (from cottonseed oil) and total glycosides of Tripterygium wilfordii (GTW) as antispermatogenic agent for fertility regulation in males.
  • (11) This brings lads like 12-year-old Matthew Mason down from the magnificent studio his father Mark, from a coal-mining town ravaged by pit closures, lovingly built him in the back garden at Gants Hill, north-east London.
  • (12) Private gardens in Belgravia, London, in the middle of a house price bubble.
  • (13) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
  • (14) This is where he would infuriate the neighbours by kicking the football over his house into their garden; this is Old Street, where his friends would wait in their car to whisk him off to basketball without his parents knowing; Pragel Street, where physiotherapists spotted him being wheeled in a Tesco shopping trolley by friends and suggested he took up basketball; the Housing Options Centre, where he sent a letter forged in his father's name saying he had thrown 16-year-old Ade out and he needed social housing.
  • (15) Things like digging in the garden often cause low back pain, and exercises will be good treatment for this.
  • (16) The effects of gamma-globulins to brain specific nonhistone chromatin proteins (BSNCP-3.5;-3.6) on conditioned food avoidance behaviour (carrot or apple) was studied in the garden snail.
  • (17) In the very first scenes, inspired by happy childhood memories, she decides to build a pool – despite her garden being much, much too small for one.
  • (18) Earlier this week, Barack Obama interrupted a Rose Garden appearance with the Japanese prime minister to speak for 15 minutes on the “slow-rolling crisis” of poverty and broken justice.
  • (19) Khan said the garden bridge could rival New York’s high line, a public park built on a 1.45-mile elevated former railway.
  • (20) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.