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{
"term": "bat",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"image": "data/images/sp/sports_racket.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a piece of wood with a handle, made in various shapes and sizes, and used for hitting the ball in games such as baseball, cricket and table tennis",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **baseball/cricket bat**"
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["baseball", "cricket", "table-tennis"],
"verb + bat": ["grip", "hold", "carry"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "an animal like a mouse with wings that flies and feeds at night (= it is nocturnal). There are many types of bat.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Animals"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["fruit", "vampire", "etc."],
"bat + verb": ["flutter", "fly", "hang"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "trying to hit the ball with a bat",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's his first time at bat in the major leagues."
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "not able to see well",
"labels": "(humorous)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She’s as blind as a bat without her glasses."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very fast",
"labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was driving like a bat out of hell."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "if you do something off your own bat, it is your own idea and you do it without help or support from anyone else",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She made the suggestions entirely off her own bat."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "immediately; without delay",
"labels": "(especially North American English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We both liked each other right off the bat."
},
{
"text": "Foreign aid is one of the issues we have to deal with right off the bat."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bæt/",
"audio": "ba/bat/bat__gb_4.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/bæt/",
"audio": "ba/bat/bat__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "noun sense 1 late Old English batt ‘club, stick, staff’, perhaps partly from Old French batte, from battre ‘to strike’. noun sense 2 late 16th cent.: alteration, perhaps by association with medieval Latin batta, blacta, of Middle English bakke, of Scandinavian origin."
}