BAT

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bat¹ substantiv

1. (zool.) liliac (din genul Vespertilio);

(fam.) to have bats in one’s / the belfry a avea sticleţi la cap, a-i lipsi o doagă;

(as) blind as a bat orb cu desăvârşire;

like a bat out of hall foarte repede, mâncând pământul.

2. (sl.) femeie de stradă, prostituată, târfă.

bat² I. substantiv

1. bâtă, ciomag; bătător (la cricket, baseball); paletă (de ping-pong); (rar) rachetă (pentru tenis).

2. meliţă (pentru in).

3. (sport) presc. de la batsman.

4. lovitură.

5. (fam.) pas, ritm, viteză;

at a good rare bat foarte repede;

to go full bat a merge, în plină viteză.

◊ off one’s own bat fără ajutor din afară, independent; din proprie iniţiativă;

(amer.) right off the bat dintr-o dată; imediat, îndată, fără amânare, fără tărăgăneală;

(amer. sl.) to come to bat a da de greu;

(amer. sl.) to be at bat a juca rolul principal; a fi la conducere / cârmă;

to carry (out) one’s bat a învinge, a-şi impune punctul de vedere;

(amer.) to go the bat with smb. a se întrece (cu cineva), a concura;

(fam.) to sling the bat a vorbi într-o limbă străină;

to go to bat for smb. a se expune pentru cineva, a-şi risca pielea pentru cineva.

bat² II. verb A. tranzitiv

a lovi cu bastonul.

bat² II. verb B. intranzitiv

a lovi mingea cu bastonul (la oină).

bat³ verb tranzitiv

(amer.) to bat one’s eyes a clipi (din ochi).

bat⁴ substantiv

(amer., canad. sl.) chef, petrecere, zaiafet;

to go on a bat a se duce la un chef.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

But if it is neither bird nor bat, what is it?

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also, he was blind, blind as a bat.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

We asked Vincent to what he attributed them, and he replied that it must have been a bite of some animal, perhaps a rat; but, for his own part, he was inclined to think that it was one of the bats which are so numerous on the northern heights of London.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

From a drawer he produced what seemed to me to be the upper portion of the wing of a large bat.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

"A monstrous bat!" I suggested.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, in this case, the bone is certainly not the forearm, and you can see for yourself that this is a single membrane hanging upon a single bone, and therefore that it cannot belong to a bat.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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