bats
part of speech
noun plural (bats, of bat); verb form (bats, of bat); adjective (bats — informal, «crazy»)
meaning for a pupil
1) Bats is the plural of bat: more than one flying animal, or more than one stick for hitting a ball. tree →
2) As a verb, «she bats» means she takes a turn hitting the ball. tree →
3) In informal British talk, «bats» means a bit crazy. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, bats live in groups called colonies, in caves, trees and roofs, and sleep in the day. Many bats eat thousands of insects a night, which helps farmers. In sports, a team keeps several bats in the kit bag. Phrases: a colony of bats, fruit bats, cricket bats, go bats, bats in the belfry.
examples
- Hundreds of bats flew out of the cave. tree →
- Fruit bats eat mangoes and figs. tree →
- Bats sleep upside down in the day. tree →
- Put the cricket bats back in the shed. tree →
- She bats left-handed. tree →
- Bats help by eating mosquitoes. tree →
- Some bats live in the roofs of old barns. tree →
- My little brother goes bats when he's tired. tree →
- Shining glow-worms covered the ceiling, and sky-blue bats flapped their transparent wings. tree →
note
Bats is the plural or the he/she/it verb form of bat. Bats are mammals: the babies drink their mother's milk. Many bats are protected by law, so you must not disturb their roosts.
In the corpora
- Bats are not blind; all bats can see, and many see quite well.
- Big fruit bats called flying foxes have large eyes for dim light, and most of them do not echolocate at all.
- Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly, and about one in five of all mammal kinds is a bat.
- In China bats have long been a sign of good luck, because the word for bat sounds like the word for good fortune.
- Bats catch moths and gnats in the dark by shouting very high squeaks and listening for the echoes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bats» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.