What's the difference between batsmen and wild?

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.

Wild


Definition:

  • (superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
  • (superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
  • (superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
  • (superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
  • (superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
  • (superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
  • (superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
  • (superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
  • (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
  • (adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
  • (3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
  • (5) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
  • (6) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
  • (7) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
  • (8) The kinetics of endocytosis and recycling of the wild-type and mutant receptors were compared.
  • (9) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
  • (10) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
  • (11) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
  • (12) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
  • (13) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
  • (14) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
  • (15) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
  • (16) Addition of streptomycin restores much of the wild-type behaviour.
  • (17) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
  • (18) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
  • (19) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
  • (20) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.

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