different between bat vs mace

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)

1. 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.

2. (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)

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.
4. (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
   • 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays

     bituminous shale ; which miners , if I mistake not , call bat

5. A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
6. A part of a brick with one whole end.
7. A stroke; a sharp blow.
8. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
9. (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.

10. (US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
11. (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)

1. (transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.

3. (intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
4. (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)

1. (transitive) To flutter

2. (US, Britain, dialect) To wink.
3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
4. (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)

1. (obsolete) A packsaddle.

Derived terms

• batman

Etymology 5

Noun

bat

1. Dated form of baht (“Thai currency”).

Etymology 6

Noun

bat (plural bats)

1. (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)

1. I beat, hit, strike.
2. 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

1. a, an, some

Numeral

bat

1. one

Derived terms

• batasun (“unity”)

Pronoun

bat

1. (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

1. third-person singular present indicative form of batre
2. second-person singular imperative form of batre

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• balat

Noun

bat

1. 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)

1. bat (a club for striking a ball)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bat

1. imperative of batte

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba/
• Homophones: bât, bas, bats

Verb

bat

1. 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

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of bitten
2. 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)

1. moth (nocturnal insect)

Derived terms

• dunce bat
• duppy bat

Etymology 2

From English bat.

Noun

bat (plural: bat dem, quantified: bat)

1. bat (instrument for hitting or striking)

Derived terms

1. 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

1. 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)

1. arm

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *bath, from Proto-Germanic *baþ?.

Noun

bat n

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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)

1. A mace, bat, or morningstar (blunt weapon)
2. (rare) A pole or stick used for other
3. (rare, Late Middle English) A strike or hit from a weapon.
4. (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

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. boat

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bat)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bad/

Verb

bat

1. inflection of is:
   1. third-person plural imperative
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

Mutation

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bat/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bat?.

Noun

bat m inan (diminutive bacik)

1. whip (rod)

   Synonym: bicz

Declension

Related terms

• (noun) batog
• (verb) bato?y?

Etymology 2

Noun

bat m inan

1. bateau (type of boat)

Declension

Etymology 3

From Thai ??? (bàat).

Noun

bat m inan

1. 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

1. first-person singular present indicative of bate
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of bate
3. 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 ????)

1. mallet
2. helve hammer

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ?????? (bast?), from ?????? (basmak).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâ?t/

Noun

b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. 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!

2. (rare) The tramp of horses’ hooves

Declension

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâ?t/

Noun

b?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. 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)

1. (baseball) bat (act of batting)
2. Misspelling of baht.

Turkish

Verb

bat

1. sink (imperative)

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /?ät?/

Verb

bat

1. (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

1. excrement
2. dirt, uncleanliness

Noun

bat m (definite batn, plural baat)

1. Alternative spelling of båt

Yola

Noun

bat

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. basin; bowl

   Synonym: (dialectal) angq

Derived terms

Classifier

bat (old orthography bat)

1. basin of; bowl of

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (MC p??t?, “eight”). Doublet of bet.

Numeral

bat (old orthography bat)

1. eight (used in compounds)

   Synonym: bet

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /me?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. A heavy fighting club.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 51.

     The Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword.

2. A ceremonial form of this weapon.
3. A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
4. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.
5. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.
6. (archaic) A billiard cue.

Translations

Verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

1. To hit someone or something with a mace.

See also

• bludgeon
• celt
• twirling baton
• warclub

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese [Term?] and Malay [Term?], meaning "a bean".

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
2. An old weight of 57.98 grains.
   • 1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants

     The decimals of the tael, called mace, candareen, and cash (tsien, f?n, and li) , are employed in reckoning bullion.

Etymology 3

From Middle English, from re-interpretation of macis as a plural (as with pea); from Latin macir.

Noun

mace

1. A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act IV, Scene III, line 45.

     I must have saffron to color the warden pies; mace; dates, none -- that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pounds of prunes, and as many of raisins o' th' sun.

Translations

Etymology 4

From the name of one brand of the spray, Mace. Pepper spray may be derived from cayenne pepper, but not from mace (definition 3 above), which is a different spice.

Noun

mace (plural maces)

1. Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.

Translations

Verb

mace (third-person singular simple present maces, present participle macing, simple past and past participle maced)

1. To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device.
2. (informal) To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can.
   • 1989, Carl Hiaasen, Skin Tight, Ballantine Books, New York, chapter 22:

     When Reynaldo and Willie had burst into Larkey's drug store to confront him, the old man had maced Willie square in the eyes with an aerosol can of spermicidal birth-control foam.

References

Anagrams

• ACME, Acme, ECMA, EMAC, acme, came, eMac

Albanian

Alternative forms

• maçe
• mac (eastern Gheg)
• macë

Etymology

Alternative variant of macë (“cat”), ultimately derived from Proto-Slavic *maca, likely an onomatopoeic expression.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat?s?/ (Standard)
• IPA^(key): /mã?t?s/, /mõ?t?s/ (eastern Gheg)

Noun

máce f (indefinite plural máce, definite singular mácja, definite plural mácet)

1. (zoology) cat
2. (figuratively, derogatory) belligerent, wild woman

Declension

Related terms

• macë f
• mackë f
• maç m
• maçok m

See also

• dac

Further reading

• [1] noun mace/máce (cat) • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

References

Hausa

Etymology

Derived from m??t? through an adverbial form.

Noun

màc? f (plural m?t?, possessed form màcèn)

1. woman
2. female

Usage notes

The possessed form may be seen as derogatory or ungrammatical by many speakers, and is often replaced by m??tar?, the possessed form of m??t?.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, probably from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Alternative forms

• maas, masse, mase, maiis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?s(?)/

Noun

mace (plural maces)

2. A war club or mace.
3. A club used for ceremonial purposes or as part of regalia.

Related terms

• macer

Descendants

• English: mace
• Scots: mace

References

• “m?ce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

Etymology 2

Noun

mace

1. Alternative form of masse

Old French

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, itself probably derived from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Noun

mace f (oblique plural maces, nominative singular mace, nominative plural maces)

1. mace (weapon)

Alternative forms

• mache (Picardy)

Descendants

• French: masse
• ? Middle English: mace, maas, masse, mase, maiis
  • English: mace
  • Scots: mace

Etymology 2

From Latin macir.

Noun

mace f (oblique plural maces, nominative singular mace, nominative plural maces)

1. mace (spice)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (mace, supplement)
• mace on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Verb

mace

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mazar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mazar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mazar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mazar.

Taraon

Etymology

Compare Idu ????

Pronunciation

• (Darang Deng) IPA^(key): /m?³¹t?i?³/

Noun

mace

1. water

References

• Roger Blench, Mark Post, (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011) (as macey)
• Jatan Pulu, A Phrase Book on Taraon Language (1991) (as mace or in running text often mac?)
• Huang Bufan (editor), Xu Shouchun, Chen Jiaying, Wan Huiyin, A Tibeto-Burman Lexicon (1992; Central Minorities University, Beijing)