bat

bat

¹

1. any of various types of club with a handle, used to hit the ball in certain sports, such as cricket, baseball, or table tennis

2. a flat round club with a short handle, resembling a table-tennis bat, used by a man on the ground to guide the pilot of an aircraft when taxiing

3. Cricket short for batsman

4. Austral a small board used for tossing the coins in the game of two-up

5. another word for batting

6. carry one's bat Cricket (of an opening batsman) to reach the end of an innings without being dismissed

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bat

²

any placental mammal of the order Chiroptera, being a nocturnal mouselike animal flying with a pair of membranous wings (patagia). The group is divided into the Megachiroptera (fruit bats) and Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats)

Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

What does it mean when you dream about a bat? (animal)

Bats symbolize the powers of the unknown or of the unconscious. Negatively, they can represent fear, the threatening power of the unknown, and, traditionally, death. Positively, as creatures who are quite at home in the dark, bats can also indicate the skill and knowledge to face the unknown and/or the unconsciousness.

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What does it mean when you dream about a bat? (baseball, Cricket and Other Sports)

Unless one’s dream flows directly out of associations with actual games and bats—either in childhood or in the present—the usual connotations of a stick with which one hits things is that of violence and aggression, though it can sometimes represent authority. Traditional psychiatrists also view anything long and straight—especially something like a bat—as a symbol of the male principle.

The Dream Encyclopedia, Second Edition © 2009 Visible Ink Press®. All rights reserved.

bat

[bat]

(vertebrate zoology)

The common name for all members of the mammalian order Chiroptera.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

bat

bat, 1

1. A piece of brick with one undamaged end; also called a brickbat.

2. A unit of batt insulation.

3. A piece of wood used as a brace.

4. A batten.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

bat

bird that is the devil incarnate. [Western Folklore: Mercatante, 181]

See: Demon

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bat

symbol of good fortune; bat flesh imparts felicity. [Eastern Folklore: Mercatante, 182]

See: Luck, Good

Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

BAT

(1) For DOS/Windows batch files, see BAT file.

(2) For the email client, see The Bat.

(3) For the one-handed keyboard, see Bat keyboard.

(4) For the browser token, see Brave browser.

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Bat

(dreams)

Most bats are nocturnal predators and just thinking about these mysterious creatures gives most people an uneasy feeling (unless you are a bat lover). Bats may be considered mysterious and unpredictable. When you are interpreting this dream, look carefully at the details and your emotional reactions to the events in the dream. This dream may be related to discrete or covert behaviors. Your unconscious mind may be relating feelings to you in regard to behaviors that you or someone else prefers to keep a secret.

Bedside Dream Dictionary by Silvana Amar Copyright © 2007 by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.