(n.) The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
(n.) Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(2) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(3) Echo delay discrimination by the bat Eptesicus fuscus had been investigated in an experiment with simulated targets jittering in range (Simmons 1979).
(4) Additionally, in a group of bats, HRP was injected into various functionally (i.e., BF) identified regions of the central nucleus of the inferior coliculus (IC) to clarify the type and location of CN projecting neurons.
(5) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
(6) Bats infected with the high dose had viable H. capsulatum in the lungs, liver, spleen and gut as early as 2 weeks post-infection.
(7) Sympathetic activation of lipogenesis in BAT is not solely attributable to the action of noradrenaline but involves some non-adrenergic mechanism.
(8) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
(9) The relationship between the meal-induced increase in brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis, determined by the level of GDP binding to BAT mitochondria, and thyroid hormone metabolism have been examined.
(10) Plasma steroid binding was examined in samples obtained from seven species of bats representing four different families.
(11) Several haematological and biochemical parameters were measured in the erythrocytes of the grey-headed fruit bat.
(12) Rates of fatty acid synthesis in liver and BAT were several times greater than that in WAT.
(13) We also identified UCP in eight cases in group B, in five cases in group C and six cases in group D. The human H-UCP-0.5 genomic probe detected a typical BAT mRNA in the periadrenal adipose tissue of all subjects of groups B, C and D showing a positive Western blot.
(14) The 1,400 victims are those who had actually experienced sexual exploitation.” Determined that no one could bat away her findings, she had produced a 153-page report that spelled out in plain language the appalling abuse suffered by children aged 10-16 in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
(15) Excision of BAT, but not white adipose tissue increased RGE susceptibility of 21w rats.
(16) When the reference target to which the bats were trained was presented, targets differing in internal delay by about 1 microseconds were discriminated.
(17) The results suggest that BAT contains two different pathways for regulation of lipoprotein lipase activity, both involving mRNA synthesis.
(18) Bats have maximum life spans a minimum of 3 times those of nonflying eutherians--a trend resulting from neither low basal metabolic rate, the ability to enter torpor, nor large relative brain size.
(19) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
(20) However, in both LSO and MSO there is an expanded representation of the frequencies around 60 kHz, the main frequency component of the bat's echolocation call; there is another expanded representation of the range around 90 kHz, the third harmonic of the call.
Stuff
Definition:
(v. t.) Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
(v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
(v. t.) Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
(v. t.) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
(v. t.) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
(v. t.) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
(v. t.) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
(v. t.) Paper stock ground ready for use.
(n.) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
(n.) To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
(n.) To fill by being pressed or packed into.
(n.) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
(n.) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
(n.) To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
(n.) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
(n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
(n.) To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
(v. i.) To feed gluttonously; to cram.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(3) It’s good stuff.” Opening markets to US-made products overseas is one of the better things that could happen for US small business and their employees, said Obama.
(4) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
(5) The "fly on the wall" stuff is no more for the moment but, Andy, grab the opportunities when you can – a few years down the line when Cameron is on the lecture circuit and the rest of us are hanging up our cameras for good, you should have an unprecedented photographic record of a seat of power.
(6) He’s struck a few chords with the immigration stuff, and he’s managed to capture the most valuable asset in a campaign, which is the attention of the press.
(7) I don’t buy any of the horse race stuff,” Bush said Tuesday.
(8) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
(9) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
(10) He must have had PR training – didn’t it stretch to not saying stupid stuff?
(11) "A lot of this stuff we inherited and had to continue," a Downing Street source said.
(12) Updated at 4.05am BST 4.00am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, top of 9th And so it's all up to Yadier Molina, the Cardinals catcher who is looking to get a rally going, no easy task against Jansen who looks to have his best stuff tonight.
(13) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
(14) He says he did write grown-up stuff – Joking Apart in the 90s and Coupling in the 00s, sitcoms that riffed on his own sexual history.
(15) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
(16) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
(17) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
(18) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
(19) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
(20) If you pushed them on Hitler you got the most extraordinary stuff: "He was mah-vellous.