at bat
bat
verb
us/bæt/-tt-

batverb (USE BAT)

[ I/T ]
to use a bat to hit the ball, esp. in baseball
[ I/T ]
If you bat at something, you hit it lightly:

batverb (MOVE EYE)

[ T ]
to open and close your eyes quickly several times, esp. to attract attention or admiration

Examples of bat

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Simultaneous analyses of streblids, nycteribiids and polyctenids recovered from these bats were beyond the scope of this analysis but may explain some of this variance.
Interestingly, on three inflorescences that had no open flower on the respective night we recorded one, four and three bat visits.
Over a period of 8 y, both bat communities showed high rates of species turnover.
We also predicted wing development of flies should correlate inversely with roost duration, restricting flightless forms to bats in permanent roosts.
Six species (8%) were defined as predominantly middle to upper canopy bats which represented the less diverse group.
Low roost-site fidelity in pallid bats: associated factors and effect on group stability.
Human exposure through biting incidents, especially unprovoked attacks, should be treated immediately with rabies post-exposure treatment and the bat, where possible, retained for laboratory analysis.
Our results suggest that the strength of the filter exerted by open areas is related with the body size of the neotropical fruit bats.
So lots of viable seeds were dispersed by bats through excretion.
Results showed that bats were less susceptible than mice to the genotype 5 viruses and that incubation periods were longer.
Furthermore, over a day, the rapid growth rate of leaves could render a roost unsuitable, obliging the bats therein to move.
No trematodes were observed in the lung or air sac, heart, liver, spleen and kidney of all bats and swallows.
The flower visitation behaviour of a bat over the night seems to be shaped by a combination of intrinsic physiological factors and by nectar availability.
The morphology of the capitula suggests they are not well adapted for pollination by other nocturnal vectors such as bats or moths.
The bat claws are in the form of solid cones and/or large curving claws.
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Collocations withbat

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bat guano
Commercially available sources of nutrients that are permitted for organic agriculture are biofertilizers, batguano and rock-phosphate.
bat speed
Here is how batspeed is calculated.
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