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THESAURUS The thing that you use to hit the ball has different names in different sports. You use a bat in baseball, cricket and table tennis. You use a racket to play squash and tennis. To play golf, you use a club and to play hockey, you use a stick.
bat2 verb (batting, batted) to try to hit a ball in games such as cricket or baseball: He bats very well.
batch (say bach) noun (plural batches) a group of things: She made a batch of cakes.
bath (say baath) noun (plural baths) 1 a large container that you fill with water and sit in to wash your body
Baster (say buss-tuh) noun (plural Basters) a member of a group of Afrikaans-speaking people, most of whom live in Namibia
bastion (say bass-ti-uhn) noun (plural bastions) part of a fort from which soldiers can defend themselves from attack
bat mitzvah (say but mitss-vuh) noun (plural bat mitzvahs) a ceremony for a Jewish girl who has turned twelve and is old enough to be called an adult cSee bar mitzvah
bat1 noun (plural bats) 1 a piece of wood for hitting the ball in a game such as cricket or table tennis 2 a small mammal with wings that comes out and flies at night
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2 the act of washing your body in a bath: I had a bath this morning.
bathe (say bayth) verb (bathing, bathed) 1 to wash a part of your body carefully: He bathed the cut on his finger. 2 (old-fashioned) to swim in the sea or in a lake or river: On hot days we often bathe in the lake.
bathroom (say baath-ruum) noun (plural bathrooms) 1 a room where you can wash and have a bath or shower 2 a room with a toilet in it: CanIgotothe bathroom (= use the toilet)? c See note at toilet
batik (say ba-teek) noun 1 (no plural) a method of printing patterns on cloth 2 (plural batiks) a cloth made in this way
baton (say bat-on) noun (plural batons) 1 a short thick stick that a police officer carries as a weaponcSYNONYM truncheon 2 a short thin stick used by the leader of an orchestra 3 a stick which a runner in a relay race passes to the next runner
batsman (say batss-muhn) noun (plural batsmen) (in cricket) a player who hits the ball with a bat
battalion (say buh-tal-i-uhn) noun (plural battalions) a small unit of soldiers that is part of a larger unit in an army
batten (say bat-uhn) noun (plural battens) a piece of thin wood or metal that you use to hold something in place
batter1 (say bat-uh) verb (battering, battered) to hit someone or something hard and quickly: He battered the door until it broke k the town.
Rain battered
batter2 (say bat-uh) noun (no plural) a mixture of flour, milk and egg used to cover food such as fish and vegetables, before you fry them: I love eating fried fish in batter. cSeefritter1
battery (say bat-ree) noun (plural batteries) a device that gives electricity, for example for a toy, radio or car: a1,5 volt battery
battle1 (say bat-l) noun (plural battles) 1 a fight between armies in a war: the battle of El Alamein 2 a determined effort to solve a difficult problem or to succeed in a difficult situation: In the end, she lost her battle against cancer.
battle2 (say bat-l) verb (battling, battled) to try very hard to do something difficult: The doctors battled to save her life.
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