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bat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?t, IPA(key): /bæt/
- Rhymes: -æt
Etymology 1
Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, from North Germanic. Compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ (literally “night-flapper”), Old Norse leðrblaka (literally “leather-flapper”).
Noun
bat (plural bats)
- Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
- 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.
- (derogatory) An old woman.
Synonyms
- (flying mammal): chiropter, chiropteran, flindermouse, flittermouse, fluttermouse, flying-mouse, rearmouse/reremouse
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Animals
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Etymology 2
From Middle English bat, batte, from Old English batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin, compare Old Breton bath (“club, cudgel”) and modern Breton bazh (“swagger stick”).
Noun
bat (plural bats)
- A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
- A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
- (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
- (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
- 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays
- bituminous shale ; which miners , if I mistake not , call bat
- 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays
- A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- A part of a brick with one whole end.
- A stroke; a sharp blow.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
- (informal) Rate of motion; speed.
- 1842, Sporting Magazine (page 251)
- On starting, The Nun led at a very slow pace for a quarter of a mile, when the Shrigley colt made running at a good bat.
- 1898, unknown author, Pall Mall Magazine
- a vast host of fowl […] making at full bat for the North Sea.
- 1842, Sporting Magazine (page 251)
- (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
- (Britain, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
Synonyms
- (two-up): kip, stick, kylie, lannet
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)
- (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
- (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
- (intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Etymology 3
Possibly a variant of bate.
Verb
bat (third-person singular simple present bats, present participle batting, simple past and past participle batted)
- (transitive) To flutter
- (US, Britain, dialect) To wink.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
- (intransitive, usually with 'around' or 'about') To flit quickly from place to place.
Usage notes
Most commonly used in the phrase bat an eye, and variants thereof.
Derived terms
- bat an eye, bat an eyelash, bat an eyelid
Etymology 4
Borrowed from French bât, from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin *bastum, form of *bast?re (“to carry”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (bastáz?, “to lift, carry”). Doublet of baton and baston.
Noun
bat (plural bats)
- (obsolete) A packsaddle.
Derived terms
- batman
Etymology 5
Noun
bat
- Dated form of baht (“Thai currency”).
Etymology 6
Noun
bat (plural bats)
- (Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“fundament, tewel, butt”).
Anagrams
- ABT, ATB, B.T.A., BTA, TBA, Tab, abt, abt., tab
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- batu
Etymology
From Late Latin batt?, from Latin battu?. Compare Daco-Romanian bate, bat.
Verb
bat (third-person singular present indicative bati/bate, past participle bãtutã)
- I beat, hit, strike.
- I defeat.
Synonyms
- (beat): agudescu
- (defeat): azvingu
Related terms
- batiri/batire
- bãteri
- bãtut
- bãtutã
- strãbat
Basque
Etymology
From a reduced form of Proto-Basque *bade (“one, some”), present also in bederatzi (“nine”) and bedera (“same; everyone”). Compared by Eduardo Orduña and Joan Ferrer to Iberian ban (“one”).
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /bat/
Determiner
bat
- a, an, some
Numeral
bat
- one
Derived terms
- batasun (“unity”)
Pronoun
bat
- (indefinite) some
Declension
Derived terms
- bakoitz (“each”)
References
Further reading
- “bat” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
- Azkue, Resurrección María de (1905–1906) , “bat”, in Diccionario vasco-español-francés = Dictionnaire basque-espagnol-français [Basque-Spanish-French Dictionary] (in Spanish and French), volume 1, Bilbao, page 137
Catalan
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -at
Verb
bat
- third-person singular present indicative form of batre
- second-person singular imperative form of batre
Cebuano
Alternative forms
- balat
Noun
bat
- a type of sea cucumber
Chinese
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?ad?]
Etymology 1
From English bat.
Noun
bat n (singular definite battet, plural indefinite bat or bats)
- bat (a club for striking a ball)
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
bat
- imperative of batte
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba/
- Homophones: bât, bas, bats
Verb
bat
- third-person singular present indicative of battre
Anagrams
- t.a.b.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: Bad (standard, but not universal), Bart (some speakers)
Verb
bat
- first-person singular preterite indicative of bitten
- third-person singular preterite indicative of bitten
Jamaican Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bat/
- Hyphenation: bat
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
bat (plural: bat dem, quantified: bat)
- moth (nocturnal insect)
Derived terms
- dunce bat
- duppy bat
Etymology 2
From English bat.
Noun
bat (plural: bat dem, quantified: bat)
- bat (instrument for hitting or striking)
Derived terms
- old bat
References
- Richard Allsopp (main editor), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 2003 (reprint by The University of the West Indies Press, originally 1996 by Oxford University Press), ISBN 9789766401450 (originally ISBN-10: 976-640-145-4), page 83
- bat – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
Jingpho
Etymology
Borrowed from Burmese ??? (pat)
Noun
bat
- week
References
- Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research?[2], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128
Luo
Noun
bat (plural bede)
- arm
Middle Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bat/
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-Germanic *baþ?.
Noun
bat n
- bath
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: bad
- Limburgish: baad
Etymology 2
From Old Dutch *bat, *bet, from Proto-Germanic *batiz.
Adverb
bat
- better; comparative degree of wel
- Synonym: beter
Alternative forms
- bet
Descendants
- Dutch: bet- only in betovergroot- (“great grand-”) and betweter (“know-it-all”)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
bat
- first/third-person singular past indicative of bidden
Further reading
- “bat (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “bat (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bat (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bet (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page bet
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English batt, from Celtic; influenced by Old French batte.
Alternative forms
- batt, batte, bot
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bat/, /b?t/
Noun
bat (plural battes or botten)
- A mace, bat, or morningstar (blunt weapon)
- (rare) A pole or stick used for other
- (rare, Late Middle English) A strike or hit from a weapon.
- (rare, Late Middle English) A clump of soft material.
Descendants
- English: bat, batt
- Scots: bat
- ? Irish: bata
- ? Scottish Gaelic: bata
References
- “bat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.
Etymology 2
Noun
bat
- (Northern) Alternative form of bot (“boat”)
Min Nan
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bait.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??t/
Noun
b?t m or f (nominative plural b?tas)
- boat
Declension
Descendants
Old French
Alternative forms
- bot, bote
Etymology
Borrowed from Old English b?t and Middle English bot.
Noun
bat m (oblique plural batz, nominative singular batz, nominative plural bat)
- boat
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bat)
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bad/
Verb
bat
- inflection of is:
- third-person plural imperative
- third-person plural present subjunctive
Mutation
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bat/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *bat?.
Noun
bat m inan (diminutive bacik)
- whip (rod)
- Synonym: bicz
Declension
Related terms
- (noun) batog
- (verb) bato?y?
Etymology 2
Noun
bat m inan
- bateau (type of boat)
Declension
Etymology 3
From Thai ??? (bàat).
Noun
bat m inan
- baht (official currency of Thailand)
Further reading
- bat in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- bat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Verb
bat
- first-person singular present indicative of bate
- first-person singular present subjunctive of bate
- third-person plural present indicative of bate
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *bat?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bât/
Noun
b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- mallet
- helve hammer
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (bast?), from ?????? (basmak).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bâ?t/
Noun
b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- The tramp of heavy footsteps, as in a military march
- 1939, ?edomir Minderovi?, Crven je istok i zapad:
- Napred, sve bliže i bliže, / ?uje se koraka bat. / Glas milijona se diže: / Dole fašizam i rat!
- Forward, ever closer and closer, / the tramp of footsteps is heard. / The voice of millions is raised: / Down with fascism and war!
- Napred, sve bliže i bliže, / ?uje se koraka bat. / Glas milijona se diže: / Dole fašizam i rat!
- 1939, ?edomir Minderovi?, Crven je istok i zapad:
- (rare) The tramp of horses’ hooves
Declension
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bâ?t/
Noun
b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- Alternative form of b?ht
Declension
References
- “bat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
- “bat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
- “bat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Spanish
Etymology
From English bat.
Noun
bat m (plural bats)
- (baseball) bat (act of batting)
- Misspelling of baht.
Turkish
Verb
bat
- sink (imperative)
Tzotzil
Pronunciation
- (Zinacantán) IPA(key): /?ät?/
Verb
bat
- (intransitive) to go
References
- Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Westrobothnian
Noun
bat f
- excrement
- dirt, uncleanliness
Noun
bat m (definite batn, plural baat)
- Alternative spelling of båt
Yola
Noun
bat
- Alternative form of bath
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
Yucatec Maya
Noun
bat (plural bato?ob)
- hail, hailstone
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /pa?t??/
- Tone numbers: bat7
- Hyphenation: bat
Etymology 1
From Chinese ? (MC pu?t?).
Noun
bat (Sawndip forms ? or ???? or ? or ? or ?, old orthography bat)
- basin; bowl
- Synonym: (dialectal) angq
Derived terms
Classifier
bat (old orthography bat)
- basin of; bowl of
Etymology 2
From Chinese ? (MC p??t?, “eight”). Doublet of bet.
Numeral
bat (old orthography bat)
- eight (used in compounds)
- Synonym: bet
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crack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?æk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
From Middle English crakken, craken, from Old English cracian (“to resound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krak?n, from Proto-Germanic *krak?n? (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?- (“to resound, cry hoarsely”).
Cognate with Scots crak (“to crack”), West Frisian kreakje (“to crack”), Dutch kraken (“to crunch, creak, squeak”), Low German kraken (“to crack”), German krachen (“to crash, crack, creak”), Lithuanian gìrgžd?ti (“to creak, squeak”), Old Armenian ?????? (karka??), Sanskrit ?????? (gárjati, “to roar, hum”).
Verb
crack (third-person singular simple present cracks, present participle cracking, simple past and past participle cracked)
- (intransitive) To form cracks.
- It's been so dry, the ground is starting to crack.
- (intransitive) To break apart under pressure.
- When I tried to stand on the chair, it cracked.
- (intransitive) To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- Anyone would crack after being hounded like that.
- (intransitive) To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- When we showed him the pictures of the murder scene, he cracked.
- (intransitive) To make a cracking sound.
- The bat cracked with authority and the ball went for six.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To change rapidly in register.
- His voice cracked with emotion.
- (intransitive, of a pubescent boy's voice) To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- His voice finally cracked when he was fourteen.
- (intransitive) To make a sharply humorous comment.
- "I would too, with a face like that," she cracked.
- (transitive) To make a crack or cracks in.
- The ball cracked the window.
- (transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- You'll need a hammer to crack a black walnut.
- (transitive) To strike forcefully.
- She cracked him over the head with her handbag.
- (transitive) To open slightly.
- Could you please crack the window?
- (transitive) To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. (Figurative)
- They managed to crack him on the third day.
- (transitive) To solve a difficult problem. (Figurative, from cracking a nut.)
- I've finally cracked it, and of course the answer is obvious in hindsight.
- (transitive) To overcome a security system or a component.
- It took a minute to crack the lock, three minutes to crack the security system, and about twenty minutes to crack the safe.
- They finally cracked the code.
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp sound.
- to crack a whip
- (transitive) To tell (a joke).
- The performance was fine until he cracked that dead baby joke.
- (transitive, chemistry, informal) To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- Acetone is cracked to ketene and methane at 700°C.
- (transitive, computing) To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- That software licence will expire tomorrow unless we can crack it.
- (transitive, informal) To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
- I'd love to crack open a beer.
- Let's crack a tube and watch the game.
- 1894, The Strand (volume 8, page 569)
- Old Bouvet was waiting in the passage when I entered, and he asked me whether we might not crack a bottle of wine together.
- (obsolete) To brag, boast.
- (archaic, colloquial) To be ruined or impaired; to fail.
- The credit […] of exchequers cracks, when little comes in and much goes out.
Derived terms
Related terms
- crazed (exhibiting fine-line cracks)
Translations
See also
- hack
Noun
crack (countable and uncountable, plural cracks)
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A narrow opening.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- (slang) Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
- (figuratively, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- (figuratively, humorous) Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- (onomatopoeia) The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- (onomatopoeia) Any sharp sound.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:
- Mrs. Perkins, who has not been for some weeks on speaking terms with Mrs. Piper in consequence for an unpleasantness originating in young Perkins' having "fetched" young Piper "a crack," renews her friendly intercourse on this auspicious occasion.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:
- (informal) An attempt at something.
- (vulgar, slang) Vagina.
- (informal) The space between the buttocks; the buttcrack.
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- 2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, iUniverse, p. 214:
- Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack.
- 2004, Bill Griffiths, Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press (quoting Dunn, 1950)
- "his a bit o' good crack — interesting to talk to"
- 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
- By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
- 2001, William F. Gray, The Villain, iUniverse, p. 214:
- (Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Business; events; news.
- What's this crack about a possible merger.
- (computing) A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- (hydrodynamics, US, dated) An expanding circle of white water surrounding the site of a large explosion at shallow depth, marking the progress of the shock wave through the air above the water.
- (Cumbria, elsewhere throughout the North of the UK) a meaningful chat.
- (Internet slang) Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 4, Scene 2
- And let us, Polydore, though now our voices / Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground, …
- a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 4, Scene 2
- (archaic) A mental flaw; a touch of craziness; partial insanity.
- (archaic) A crazy or crack-brained person.
- (obsolete) A boast; boasting.
- (obsolete) Breach of chastity.
- a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 5, Scene 5
- But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd, I having ta'en the forfeit. …
- a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 5, Scene 5
- (obsolete) A boy, generally a pert, lively boy.
- (slang, dated, Britain) A brief time; an instant; a jiffy.
Usage notes
- (Scots language, common in lowland Scotland and Ulster, conviviality): In the last few decades the word has been adopted into Gaelic; as there is no "k" in the Irish language the spelling craic has been devised.
Synonyms
- (vulgar: space between the buttocks): bum crack (UK), arse crack (UK), ass crack (US)
- (cocaine that is heat-altered at the moment of inhalation): crack cocaine
- (A crazy or crack-brained person): crackpot
Coordinate terms
- (phenomenon from underwater explosion): slick
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
1793 slang, of Unknown origin
Adjective
crack (not comparable)
- Highly trained and competent.
- Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch.
Derived terms
- crack train
- crack troops
Related terms
- crackerjack
Translations
Finnish
Etymology
From English crack.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kræk/, [?kræk]
Noun
crack
- crack (variety of cocaine)
Declension
French
Etymology
From English crack.
Noun
crack f (plural cracks)
- crack (expert person)
crack f (uncountable)
- crack (cocaine)
Portuguese
Etymology
From English crack.
Noun
crack m (plural cracks)
- crack (variety of cocaine)
- crack (computer program for bypassing license-related and other restrictions)
Further reading
- “crack” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology 1
From English crack.
Noun
crack m (plural cracks)
- crack (variety of cocaine)
- champion, ace, pro, wizard, dude (outstanding person)
Etymology 2
From English crash influenced by crack and crac.
Noun
crack m (plural cracks)
- Alternative form of crac
Further reading
- “crack” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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