What's the difference between batsmen and partnership?

Batsmen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Batsman

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is suggested in this paper that batsmen supplement inadequate retinal image information about where the ball will hit the ground with prior knowledge built up over the preceding few deliveries.
  • (2) We comment on the need for appropriate facial protection for batsmen and close fielders.
  • (3) The visual performance of cricket batsmen is simulated over a wide range of ambient illumination.
  • (4) He found a surface receptive to his spinners and pitched the ball easily on to a length, which was enough to torment the most experienced of batsmen.
  • (5) 6.19pm BST 12th over: England 25-0 (Cook 9, Robson 15) Nasser thinks Eranga's been impressive, and in a way he has - full length, decent line - but the batsmen have been in such little trouble that it's hard to get excited.
  • (6) Smith also praised India's batsmen for reaching 459 in the second innings, singling out the India captain, MS Dhoni, who scored 90, for special praise.
  • (7) 4.51pm BST 84th over: England 196-7 (Ali 67, Jordan 15) Eranga finds some swing and Jordan's leading edge – the batsmen is looking to play to midwicket but the ball loops a couple of yards short of the man at mid off.
  • (8) At one stage in the proceedings the court heard a tape in which Majeed talked about the "two bowlers, two batsmen and two all-rounders" he had under his control.
  • (9) England need to do something here, both batsmen look comfortable for the first time in time.
  • (10) "Dhoni played really well and the other batsmen also stuck it out," he said.
  • (11) In the batsmen’s mind, this always leaves a gap somewhere.
  • (12) It’s an incredibly safe game but I think this will shake batsmen slightly out of what might have been complacency,” he said.
  • (13) That's 15 extras so far in this innings by my reckoning, though in Prior's defence the ball is swerving about out there after it has passed the batsmen.
  • (14) Thus two crucial batsmen, part of Glamorgan's foreign legion, Chris Cooke and Jim Allenby, were sent on their way.
  • (15) It has been suggested that successful batsmen in cricket are not distinguished by their fast speed of visual information intake.
  • (16) The correlation was -0.63 (p less than 0.005), suggesting that the successful batsmen were faster at picking up information from briefly presented visual displays.
  • (17) There were more off-cutters than we remember in the halcyon days of 2005, but the occasional ball hit the bat with a thud and he always kept the batsmen guessing.
  • (18) It has been a similar story among the batsmen, with insufficient middle-order support for Sam Robson (1,180 runs at 47.2) and the admirable Rogers, who averaged 56.2 in scoring 1,068 in only 12 championship appearances.
  • (19) Sri Lanka's batsmen haven't done especially well in English conditions, yet were given a sub-continental pitch on which to ease themselves in.
  • (20) Although Nottinghamshire are considerably better off with two wins so far, including an opening success when Worcestershire went to Trent Bridge, both counties are looking for a greater output from their batsmen.

Partnership


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.
  • (n.) A division or sharing among partners; joint possession or interest.
  • (n.) An alliance or association of persons for the prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.
  • (n.) A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure.
  • (n.) See Fellowship, n., 6.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
  • (2) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
  • (3) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
  • (4) As shown in Rethinking School Feeding , a joint analysis conducted by the World Bank , World Food Programme and Partnership for Child Development , hunger restricts education.
  • (5) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
  • (6) Today, three years after the 2012 London summit, our partnership is stronger than ever.
  • (7) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
  • (8) A parent who took his anti-Page 3 campaign to Legoland and Wapping is claiming victory after the Danish toymaker announced the end of its two-year partnership with the Sun.
  • (9) The government's civil partnership bill to sanction same-sex unions was thrown into confusion last night after a cross-party coalition of peers and bishops voted to extend the bill's benefits to a wide range of people who live together in a caring family relationship.
  • (10) I'm having a civil partnership ceremony in six weeks and don't know whether to invite my mum.
  • (11) The central bank is coordinating 10 banks that are piloting the scheme in partnership with approved, legally-registered NGOs working on financial exclusion of children.
  • (12) Ahmed has been offered a scholarship to take him through high school and university by the Qatar Foundation, a public-private education partnership in the Middle Eastern state.
  • (13) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
  • (14) We are not back to the Cold War but we are far from a strategic partnership,” he said.
  • (15) "We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers.
  • (16) Few of the partnerships always practised safe sexual techniques, even after a partner was known to be positive for HIV.
  • (17) "[The partnership] would take account of things they are very good at and the things that we are good at and put them together in a new venture," Smith told peers.
  • (18) Putin has been re-elected by a large majority, so France, and her European partners will pursue its partnership with Russia."
  • (19) We write to deplore the coalition's withdrawal of support from the hugely successful school sport partnerships (" Michael Gove's plan to slash sports funding in schools splits cabinet ", News).
  • (20) David McMillen QC said in court on Thursday: “Northern Ireland stands out as effectively a blot on the map … It’s nothing less than state discrimination of a class of people who have been marginalised for many years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Henry Kane (right) and Chris Flanagan celebrate their civil partnership in Belfast in December 2005.

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