Tra từ bat - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cricket bat (=that you use to hit the ball)
bat mitzvah
batting/catching etc practice
▪ We'd better do a bit of batting practice before the game.
fruit bat
right off the batAmerican English (= immediately, without having to think carefully)
▪ Kay answered right off the bat.
vampire bat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
baseball
▪ The others, the storm-troopers or Sturmabteilungen, would spread through the crowds, wielding clubs, baseball bats and sometimes knives.
▪ Families with children carrying picnic baskets, thermoses, baseball bats, shoulder bags.
▪ Get tooled up with baseball bats and go smash some windows in some club.
▪ Three of the seven players told investigators they put Tiger in a bag and beat her with baseball bats.
▪ A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.
▪ It feels like a kick in the stomach or a blow with a baseball bat.
▪ I heave on the baseball bat, and wrench the chain from the big guy's hand.
▪ One of her cases involved a 17-year-old girl whose father routinely attacked the family, once with a baseball bat.
cricket
▪ Taking a cricket bat to the audition isn't a bad idea although you can get the same effect with an umbrella.
▪ The one best cricket bat of his youth was becoming the one best Midvale.
▪ Richardson was the inventor of the cane-spliced cricket bat and a catapult for bowling which was successfully used for many years.
▪ The following Summer in London, while shopping for a cricket bat, his journal fills with prices and estimates of quality.
▪ Opposite: The cricket bat was made by John Wisden &038; Co.
▪ Peters &038; Son, a store carrying ship models and archery equipment along with cricket bats, particularly draws his attention.
▪ Suddenly I was jumping, yelling out as the flagstone beat my feet like a cudgel or stone cricket bat.
▪ In the event, Hilary rummaged around in the gym and found a cricket bat and ball.
VERB
carry
▪ The following season, he carried his bat for a brilliant 215 not out against Lancashire at Old Trafford.
▪ I carry the bat, the glove.
swing
▪ Felt queasy after, but swung the bat okay and then came back to the hotel, which is small but clean.
▪ I kept swinging the bat, but by now Guy and Carmine had biked out of range and were looking back.
▪ We have the hitter sit on the ball swinging a bat.
▪ Both throw a lot of strikes and both make hitters swing the bat early in the count.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as blind as a bat
▪ Didn't you see me coming? You must be as blind as a bat!
▪ I'm as blind as a bat without my glasses.
old fool/bastard/bat etc
▪ Am I to be troubled by a skinny old fool in mirror shades?
▪ An old fool if you like.
▪ But then the old fool should have been a little less unwashed and boring.
▪ He was no more to her, he thought, than a tiresome old man, an old fool.
▪ Look there that old fool Broom, slipped off to sleep.
▪ She thought what an undecided old fool Phoebe was, but it made her outburst at the Frolic all the more courageous.
▪ The old bats included a plastic, an aluminum and a wooden one.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Felt queasy after, but swung the bat okay and then came back to the hotel, which is small but clean.
▪ Noctuid moths are eaten by bats, and have evolved a special pair of ears to warn them of approaching danger.
▪ Our classmates tested five bats from K. C. Slammer.
▪ The murder is perfectly executed, except that the baseball bat left at the scene of the crime is sticky with fingerprints.
▪ The tunnel is a place only a bat could love.
▪ This is tested by gagging the bats before releasing them.
▪ Upon being blocked off from the courtyard, the bat would soon have led him to freedom.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
eyelid
▪ Susan, my long suffering wife, who never batted an eyelid as this project unfolded and gave me lots of encouragement.
▪ None of the regulars batted an eyelid, but the sweaty faces of the dance-crazy Glaswegians fell. 2.30?
▪ And farmers watching a demonstration of grass cutters didn't bat an eyelid at the state of the pasture.
▪ Nothing much ever happened in Surrey Hills, and nobody batted an eyelid.
▪ Today, no-one bats an eyelid as he takes a stroll along the ley-lines of Wiltshire.
▪ In fact she didn't bat an eyelid.
▪ Did saints ever bat their eyelids and look sleepily self-satisfied as cats?
▪ Tom didn't bat an eyelid at the warm fog.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After the hearing you return to the gallery to bat out a quick story.
▪ He batted 205 minutes in the second innings, making 65 not out.
▪ I noticed that she blinked a lot and, at times, seemed to be trying to bat away the dust.
▪ In a tight match at Christleton visitors Oakmere batted first and set a total of 165 for five, Paul Matthews 66.
▪ Laxman batted for 12 hours in two innings over three days here, and naturally was man of the match.

bat

I. bat¹ S3 /bæt/ noun [COUNTABLE]
Sense 1,5-7: [date : 1500-1600; Origin : back 'bat' (14-16 centuries), probably from a Scandinavian language. ]
Sense 2-4: Language : Old English; Origin : batt]
1. a small animal like a mouse with wings that flies around at night ⇨ fruit bat

2.

a) a long wooden stick with a special shape that is used in some sports and games:
　 ▪ a baseball bat
　 ▪ a cricket bat
b) British English a round flat piece of wood with a handle, used to hit a ball in table tennis SYN paddle American English

3. be at bat
to be the person who is trying to hit the ball in a game of baseball

4. do something off your own bat
British English informal to do something without being told to do it:
　 ▪ She went to see a solicitor off her own bat.

5. do something right off the bat
American English informal to do something immediately:
　 ▪ He said yes right off the bat.

6. like a bat out of hell
informal very fast:
　 ▪ I drove like a bat out of hell to the hospital.

7. old bat
spoken an unpleasant old woman
⇨ as blind as a bat at blind¹(1c)

II. bat² verb (past tense and past participle batted, present participle batting)
Sense 1, 4-5: [date : 1400-1500; Origin : ⇨ bat¹(2)]
Sense 2-3: [date : 1800-1900; Origin : Probably from bate 'to beat the wings' (13-20 centuries), from Old French batre 'to hit']
1. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to hit the ball with a bat in cricket or baseball

2. not bat an eye/eyelid
informal to not seem to be shocked, surprised, or embarrassed:
　 ▪ They started talking about sex, but she didn’t bat an eyelid.

3. bat your eyes/eyelashes
if a woman bats her eyes, she opens and closes them several times quickly, in order to look attractive to men

4. go to bat for somebody
American English informal to help and support someone

5. be batting a thousand
American English informal to be very successful:
　 ▪ She’s been batting a thousand since she got that job.
bat something ↔ around phrasal verb informal
to discuss various ideas or suggestions