bat

CEFRA2

/bæt/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flying animal that is active at night.

  2. 02

    noun

    A wooden or metal stick used to hit a ball.

Examples

  • A bat flying in the sky looks like a butterfly.

  • Without his glasses, he is as blind as a bat.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /bat/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A club, made of wood like a baseball bat or otherwise, used as a weapon

  2. An old woman.

  3. Any flying mammal of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.

More examples

In context

  • He's a good fielder and a valuable bat.

  • You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?

  • As well as being worth millions of dollars to the Texan agriculture industry, these mammals are worth millions of dollars to the state’s tourism industry. Texas is home to the world’s largest known bat colony (in Comal County), and the world’s largest urban b...

Synonyms

Quick test

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He swung the wooden blank hard and hit the baseball over the fence.

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Origin

noun

Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, of North Germanic origin. Perhaps compare Old Norse (leðr)blaka (literally “(leather) flapper”), from leðr + blaka (“to flap”). Compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ.