Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of one who bats.
- noun Cotton, wool, or synthetic fiber wadded into rolls or sheets, used for stuffing furniture and mattresses and for lining quilts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of washing or smoothing linen with a bat.
- noun The process of beating raw cotton with hazel-or holly-twigs, on a frame made of cords, for the purpose of opening the matted locks, or of beating out impurities.
- noun Cotton or wool prepared in thick but light matted sheets for quilts or bed-covers, the quilting of garments, etc. Also called bat, batts.
- noun The act or manner of using a bat in a game of ball: as, their batting was good.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
- noun Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc..
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun sewing
cotton ,wool ,silk orsynthetic material used tostuff theinside of amattress ,quilt etc - noun special cotton for
surgery . - noun the act of someone who
bats - verb Present participle of
bat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base
- noun stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But resuming on 456-3, with the pitch flat, a man with a Test century to his name batting at nine and the Indian attack looking like a contradiction in terms, we could genuinely be looking at an England total in excess of 700.
BBC News - Home 2011
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All-Star Twins catcher Joe Mauer led the league in batting average (.365) and set career highs in home runs (28) and RBI (96).
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Giants manager Bruce Bochy said his team was proficient in batting and the pitchers stepped up when it mattered.
San Francisco Giants Take Game One of Baseball's World Series 2010
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Casey Kotchman has been signed to play first base and provide an upgrade in batting average, though not in power over departed Russell Branyan.
Mariners have busy offseason, now ready to take next step 2010
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Discounting 2007, when Kennedy missed more than a month on the disabled list, Kennedy set career-lows in batting average (.250), on-base percentage (.322) and slugging percentage (.329).
Adam Kennedy's rough season and Jim Riggleman's regret Adam Kilgore 2010
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Something of a rough diamond, Violent was always an innovator in batting technique.
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Oh yeah, people writing about other factors explaining the explosion in batting power numbers need to explain how those factors have been removed in the last few years.
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Discounting 2007, when Kennedy missed more than a month on the disabled list, Kennedy set career-lows in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage.
Nationals decline option on Adam Kennedy Adam Kilgore 2010
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Albert Pujols, who leads the majors with 31 homers and 83 RBI and is third in batting average (.332), can become the first player since Hank Aaron in 1957 to lead his league in the Triple Crown categories at the All-Star break.
Divisions bunched up nearing break; Pujols stands alone 2009
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In fact their offense leads the league in batting average and they are second behind the Yankees in runs scored.
Five Teams With the Best Chance of Winning the World Series | myFiveBest 2009
bilby commented on the word batting
"But for the bright line of urgency and command running through it, he might have simply been batting the breeze with an old friend. It was right to call him, Thad thought."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007