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[edit] English

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A bat (mammal).

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Dialectal variant (akin to Swedish dialect natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, from Scandinavian (compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ 'night-flapper', Old Norse leðrblaka 'leather-flapper').

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bat (plural bats)

  1. Any of the small, nocturnal, flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, which navigate by means of echolocation. They look like a mouse with membranous wings extending from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail. Altogether, there are about 1,000 bat species in the world.
    • 2012, Suemedha Sood, (bbc.co.uk) Travelwise: Texas love bats [sic]
      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 bat colony (in Austin). Bat watching is a common activity, with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department offering more bat-viewing sites than anywhere else in the US.
  2. (offensive) An old woman.
  3. (obsolete, slang) A low whore: so called from moving out like a bat in the dusk of the evening.
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terms derived from bat (flying animal)
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small flying mammal
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Old English batt

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bat (plural bats)

  1. A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
  2. A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
  3. (two-up): The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 242.)
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club
turn at batting

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bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)

  1. (transitive) to hit with a bat.
  2. (intransitive) to take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
  3. (intransitive) to strike or swipe as though with a bat
    The cat batted at the toy.
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terms derived from bat (verb)
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hit
take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat
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Possibly a variant of bate.

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bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)

  1. (transitive) to flutter: bat one's eyelashes.
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Most commonly used in phrase bat an eye, and variants thereof.

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French bât, from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin *bastum, form of bastāre (“to carry”), from Late Greek *bastân, from Ancient Greek bastázein (“to lift, carry”).[1]

Cognate to baton.[2]

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bat (plural bats)

  1. (obsolete) packsaddle
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  1. ^ "batman." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2009.
  2. ^ “bat” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

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bat

  1. a, an
    • Musu bat — A kiss.
Basque cardinal numbers
 <  0 1 2   > 
    Cardinal : bat
    Ordinal : lehenengo

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bat

  1. one
    • Sagar bat eta lau laranja — One apple and four oranges.

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bat

  1. Third-person singular present indicative form of batre.
  2. Second-person singular imperative form of batre.

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bat

  1. third-person singular indicative present of battre

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bat

  1. singular past tense of bitten (to please, to pray, to ask, to gratify).

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bat

  1. Rafsi of batci.

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bat (plural bede)

  1. arm

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From Old Dutch *bat, *bet, from Proto-Germanic *batiz.

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bat

  1. better; comparative form of wel
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From Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-Germanic *baþan.

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bat n. (stem bad-)

  1. bath
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simplified

 捌 or 八

traditional

 捌 or 八

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  • IPA: [ bat˩˩ ]

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bat (POJ, traditional and simplified 捌 or 八)

  1. to know somebody; to recognize
  2. to be familiar with

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  • 2000, 台灣話大詞典　(Tâi-ôan-ōe tōa-sû-tián), ISBN 9573240785:

[edit] Old English

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From Germanic *baitaz. Related to Old Norse beit. Old Norse bātr (Icelandic: bátur) is a borrowing from Old English; German Boot and Dutch boot are loans from the Middle English descendant.

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bāt m. (nominative plural bātas)

  1. boat

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bat

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bat m.

  1. whip (rod)

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    declension of bat
singular plural
nominative bat baty
genitive bata batów
dative batowi batom
accusative bat baty
instrumental batem batami
locative bacie batach
vocative bacie baty

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bat

  1. sink (imperative)

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bat (plural bats)

  1. game of whip and top
  2. bat (for ball games)

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declension of bat
singular plural
nominative bat bats
genitive bata batas
dative bate bates
accusative bati batis
predicative batu batus
vocative o bat! o bats!
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