batとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: băt, IPA^(key): /bæt/
• 韻: -æt

語源 1

Dialectal variant (akin to dialectal Swedish natt-batta) of Middle English bakke, balke, from North Germanic. Compare Old Swedish natbakka, Old Danish nathbakkæ (字義どおりに “night-flapper”), Old Norse leðrblaka (字義どおりに “leather-flapper”).

名詞

bat (複数形 bats)

1. Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:

     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.
   • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 196:

     "Isn't it lovely?" I smiled and thought: "Yes it is. It's also a Blackbird, you silly old bat!

同意語

• (flying mammal): chiropter, chiropteran, flindermouse, flittermouse, fluttermouse, flying-mouse, rearmouse/reremouse

派生語

参考

• Appendix:Animals
• Appendix:English collective nouns

A baseball player swinging a baseball bat to hit a baseball

語源 2

From Middle English bat, batte, from 古期英語 batt (“bat, club, cudgel”), probably of Celtic origin, compare Old Breton bath (“club, cudgel”) and modern Breton bazh (“swagger stick”).

名詞

bat (複数形 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.

   You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?

3. (two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.^[1]
4. (mining) Shale or bituminous shale.

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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.
   • 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.

同意語

• (two-up): kip, stick, kylie, lannet

派生語

動詞

bat (三人称単数 現在形 bats, 現在分詞 batting, 過去形および過去分詞形 batted)

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

   He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.

   We batted a few ideas around.

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.

   The cat batted at the toy.

派生語

参照

語源 3

Possibly a variant of bate.

動詞

bat (三人称単数 現在形 bats, 現在分詞 batting, 過去形および過去分詞形 batted)

1. (transitive) To flutter

   bat one's eyelashes

2. (US, Britain, dialect) To wink.
3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
4. (intransitive, usually with 'around' または 'about') To flit quickly from place to place.

   I've spent all week batting around the country.

使用する際の注意点

Most commonly used in the phrase bat an eye, and variants thereof.

派生語

• bat an eye, bat an eyelash, bat an eyelid

語源 4

Borrowed from French bât, from Old French bast, from Vulgar Latin *bastum, form of *bastāre (“to carry”), from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to lift, carry”). Doublet of baton and baston.

名詞

bat (複数形 bats)

1. (obsolete) A packsaddle.

派生語

• batman

名詞

bat

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

アナグラム

• ABT, ATB, B.T.A., BTA, TBA, Tab, abt, abt., tab

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *bait.

発音

• IPA^(key): /bɑːt/

名詞

bāt m or f (nominative 複数形 bātas)

1. boat

語形変化

派生した語

接尾辞

-bat

1. 接尾辞 to denote the third person singular imperfect form of a verb

別の表記

• bat-

アナグラム

• ATB, B.T.A., TBA, Tab, abt, abt., tab