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# bats

«bats» in Mova's school dictionary: **the plural of bat: more than one flying animal, or more…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#m1)

2) As a verb, «she bats» means she takes a turn hitting the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#m2)

3) In informal British talk, «bats» means a bit crazy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x1)
- Fruit bats eat mangoes and figs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x2)
- Bats sleep upside down in the day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x3)
- Put the cricket bats back in the shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x4)
- She bats left-handed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x5)
- Bats help by eating mosquitoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x6)
- Some bats live in the roofs of old barns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x7)
- My little brother goes bats when he's tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x8)
- Shining glow-worms covered the ceiling, and sky-blue bats flapped their transparent wings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/4/)
- [Big fruit bats called flying foxes have large eyes for dim light, and most of them do not echolocate at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/6/)
- [Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly, and about one in five of all mammal kinds is a bat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/12/)
- [In China bats have long been a sign of good luck, because the word for bat sounds like the word for good fortune.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/153-are-bats-blind/17/)
- [Bats catch moths and gnats in the dark by shouting very high squeaks and listening for the echoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/229-echolocation-how-bats-see-with-sound/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bats» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bats/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.