| baseball |
a game played with a bat and ball by two teams of nine players each, the object being to score runs by advancing runners around four bases. [1/2 definitions] |
| bat1 |
a club of wood or metal used to hit the ball in baseball, softball, or cricket. [2/3 definitions] |
| bat2 |
A bat is a small mammal that can fly. Bats have wings that are much longer than their bodies. They usually fly at night, and they eat many, many insects. |
| bat mitzvah |
a Jewish ceremony that celebrates a girl becoming an adult and the beginning of her religious duties. The bat mitzvah usually takes place when the girl is thirteen years old. |
| batter3 |
the person who stands in to bat the ball in baseball, softball, or cricket. |
| bunt1 |
to tap with a baseball or softball bat so that the ball lands close by. [1/2 definitions] |
| choke up |
to move one's hands up from the bottom end of a baseball bat. [1/2 definitions] |
| cricket2 |
an English game played outdoors with a ball and bat by two teams of eleven members each. |
| dent1 |
If you hit a sheet of metal with a baseball bat, you will probably make a dent in the metal. A dent is area of a hard surface that is pushed in because it was hit by something. [1/2 definitions] |
| designated hitter |
a member of an American League baseball team who is chosen at the beginning of a game to bat in place of the pitcher. |
| home |
In the game of baseball, home is where you stand when you bat, and it is the base you have to touch in order to score a point. "Home" has the same meaning as "home base" or "home plate." [1/6 definitions] |
| inning |
the unit of a baseball of softball game during which each side has a turn at bat. |
| meter1 |
A meter is a certain length. You might say that a baseball bat is one meter long, for example. When we measure something in meters, we are using a system of measuring called the metric system. When we use the metric system, we don't use measuring words like foot and inch. We use words like meter and centimeter. A meter is a little longer than three feet, and three feet is equal to 36 inches, about the length of some baseball bats. A short way to write meter is "m." |
| on deck |
next in line to bat in a baseball game. |
| rhyme |
A rhyme is a word that ends with the same sound or group of sounds as another word. "Feel," "meal," and "wheel" are rhymes. So are "cat," "bat," "fat," and "rat." There are many rhymes for some words, like the word "cat," but there are no rhymes for others, such as the word "orange." [1/6 definitions] |
| strike |
In baseball or softball, if the batter fails to hit the ball into the playing area or fails to make any contact with the ball using the bat, it's called a "strike." If a batter gets three strikes, they are "out." That means they have no more chances to try to hit the ball and try to score. [1/13 definitions] |
| swing |
In a sport, a swing is a swinging movement with something like a bat or a club. [1/7 definitions] |
| vampire |
a bat native to Central and South America that feeds on the blood of animals. [1/2 definitions] |
| vowel |
The sounds that these letters stand for are also called vowels. Often in English, the same vowel letters are used to stand for different vowel sounds. For example, the letter "e" has a different vowel sound in the word "bed" than it does in the word "bee." The vowel letter "a" has a different vowel sound in the word "bat" than in the word "ball." There are only five (or six) vowel letters in English, but there are many more vowel sounds than that. [1/2 definitions] |
| yard1 |
A yard is a certain length. It is equal to three feet. A baseball player's bat is about a yard long. A short way of writing "yard" or "yards" is "yd." |