BATTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does batting mean? 

• BATTING (noun)
  The noun BATTING has 2 senses:

1. (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base

2. stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber

  Familiarity information: BATTING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("batting" is a kind of...):

attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Derivation:

bat (strike with, or as if with a baseball bat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

batten; batting

Hypernyms ("batting" is a kind of...):

stuffing (padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture)

 Context examples 

Using a new computer model, the two types of information were combined to determine the volcanic equivalent of a batting order for Arsia Mons' 29 vents.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)

He walked up and down, batting his head savagely with his fists, but he could not conquer the numbness of sleep.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He plodded on with bowed head, unobservant, mechanically rubbing nose and cheeks, and batting his steering hand against the gee-pole in the straight trail-stretches.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You’re batting a thousand this year, and others are wondering how you do it.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)