(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 .
Ground
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Grind
(n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it.
(n.) A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth.
(n.) Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground.
(n.) Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept.
(n.) The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope.
(n.) That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground.
(n.) In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
(n.) In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Brussels.
(n.) A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.
(n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.
(n.) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
(n.) A conducting connection with the earth, whereby the earth is made part of an electrical circuit.
(n.) Sediment at the bottom of liquors or liquids; dregs; lees; feces; as, coffee grounds.
(n.) The pit of a theater.
(v. t.) To lay, set, or run, on the ground.
(v. t.) To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
(v. t.) To instruct in elements or first principles.
(v. t.) To connect with the ground so as to make the earth a part of an electrical circuit.
(v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.
(v. i.) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar.
() imp. & p. p. of Grind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
(2) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
(3) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(4) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
(5) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
(6) One thousand nineteen Wyoming ground squirrels (Spermophilus elegans elegans) from 4 populations in southern Wyoming were examined for intestinal parasites.
(7) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(8) I had loan sharks turning up at the training ground when I was at Ipswich [2011-13].
(9) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(10) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
(11) On land, the pits' stagnant pools of water become breeding grounds for dengue fever and malaria.
(12) We conclude that the concept of the limbic system cannot be accepted on empirical grounds.
(13) On the grounds of the reported paediatric cases, the erudition in childhood is compared with the more common form in the adult, and is found to be much less linked with diabetes mellitus and to have a far better prognosis, with practically no mortality.
(14) It seems like an awfully long way from the ground.” He added: “When I was younger, I dreamed of being an astronaut, but I also wanted to be a policeman or a firebreather.
(15) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
(16) Differentiation on histopathological grounds between this tumour and the more common juvenile melanoma may be difficult, but this important distinction should be possible in almost all cases.
(17) For Burroughs, who had been publishing ground-breaking books for 20 years without much appreciable financial return, it was association with fame and the music industry, as well as the possible benefits: a wider readership, film hook-ups and more money.
(18) United and West Ham are on similar runs and can feel pretty happy about themselves but are not as confident away from home as they are at home and that will have to change if they are to make ground on the top teams.
(19) But today, Americans increasingly no longer shy away from saying they oppose mosques on the grounds that Muslims are a threat or different.
(20) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.