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BATT

Date "BATT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

"BATT" is a common misspelling or typo for: bait, bat, bate, bath, bats, batty, bet, bit, but, butt.


Specialty Definition: BATT

DomainDefinition

Building

Insulation in the form of a blanket, rather than loose filling. (references)

Industry

An American term used to denote superimposed carded webs of fibre in sheet form, e. g. , wadding. Source: European Union. (references)
 Small portable platform on which products may be handled, dried, stored or transported within the factory. Source: European Union. (references)

Metallurgy

A fired slab of refractory material, generally of thin section, used in the firing of ceramic products. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BATT

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

BATT

GermanBundesamt für TransporttruppenPublic Administration, Military & Defense

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Commercial Usage: BATT

DomainTitle

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: BATT

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

9th Mass. batt. Bigelows going into position at Gettysburg. Credit: Library of Congress.

Frederick Batt, brakeman, on the C & NW RR, at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Batt and Bates addressing machines. Man and woman working in office. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: BATT

"BATT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.21% of the time. "BATT" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)84.21%1687,710
Noun (proper)10.53%2245,945
Unclassified Items5.26%1339,140
                    Total100.00%19N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: BATT

The following table summarizes the usage of "BATT" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BattLast name1,00010,263
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: BATT

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "BATT": Crompton-batt, pushed-batt, sliding-batt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BATT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

batt

38

batt insulation

16

mike batt

10

batt lap

9

al batt

7

batt dyna

5

cell batt

4

batt fiberglass insulation

4

batt cell phone

4

bryan batt

3

batt cables

3

batt masterson

2

paul batt buick

2

sharon batt

2

batt cave.com

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BATT

Language Translations for "BATT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vattering (batting, wadding), vat (cotton-wool, wadding), sættestøtte (setter). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wattenvulling (batting), wattenlaag (batting, web of carded fibres), ovenpilaar (setter). (various references)

   

French

  

plateau (basal plate, basket, bass, bat), plaque (badge), pilier d'enfournement, napppe (batting), galette (bat), formation de nappe (batting), dalle mince (bat). (various references)

   

German

  

Brennstuetze (setter), Besatzplatte (setter), Wattierung (lining, padding, quilting, wadding), Watte (absorbent cotton, cotton, cotton swab, cotton wool, cotton-wool, padding, wadding). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βάττα (padding), πλάκα στήριξης κεραμικής μάζας κατά το ψήσιμο (setter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

supporto (backup, bracket, carrier, holder, strut, support), ovatta (cotton wool, padding, wadding). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attbay

   

Portuguese

  

bloco de suporte (setter), manta (blanket). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

soporte (backing, backstay, bearer, bearing, bracket, calipers, callipers, holder, mounting, pillar, rest, shell, support, supporter, tee, wearer), colchón de fibras (batting), aguata (batting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: BATT

Derivations

Words beginning with "BATT": battailous, battalia, battalias, battalion, battalions, batteau, batteaux, batted, battement, battements, batten, battened, battener, batteners, battening, battens, batter, battered, batterie, batteries, battering, batters, battery, battier, battiest, battik, battiks, battiness, battinesses, batting, battings, battle, battled, battlefield, battlefields, battlefront, battlefronts, battleground, battlegrounds, battlement, battlemented, battlements, battler, battlers, battles, battleship, battleships, battlewagon, battlewagons, battling, batts. (additional references)

Words containing "BATT": abattis, abattises, abattoir, abattoirs, combatted, combatting, embattle, embattled, embattlement, embattlements, embattles, embattling, prebattle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BATT"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BATT" (pronounced ba"t)
3b a" tbat.
2-a" tat, begat, brat, cat, chat, fat, flat, Gat, gnat, hat, Kat, mat, Matt, matte, nonfat, Pat, rat, sat, scat, slat, spat, splat, stat, Tat, that, vat.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: BATT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-t-t"

-1 letter: att, bat, tab, tat.

-2 letters: ab, at, ba, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-t-t"
 

+1 letter: batts, battu, batty, betta.

 

+2 letters: abwatt, batted, batten, batter, battik, battle, battue, bettas, bratty, tablet, tubate.

 

+3 letters: abattis, abettal, abetted, abetter, abettor, abuttal, abutted, abutter, abwatts, attaboy, babbitt, baptist, bathmat, bathtub, batiste, batteau, battens, batters, battery, battier, battiks, batting, battled, battler, battles, battues, beretta, biretta, bistate, blatant, blatted, blatter, brattle, buttals, catboat, habitat, tabaret, tabetic, tablets, taboret, totable, towboat, tubaist, tugboat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BATT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 54 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    -    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010100 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#84 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0054 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36355454

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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