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What (who) is BATS Improv - definition
BATS Improv
IMPROVISATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY IN SAN FRANCISCO
Bay Area Theatersports
BATS Improv (formerly known as "Bay Area Theatresports") is a non-profit improvisational theatre company in San Francisco. Founded in 1986, their unique style of acting-based improvisational theatre is well known in improv circles around the world.
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![The early [[Eocene]] fossil microchiropteran ''[[Icaronycteris]]'', from the [[Green River Formation]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Batfossil.jpg?width=200 "The early [[Eocene]] fossil microchiropteran ''[[Icaronycteris]]'', from the [[Green River Formation]]")
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![patagia]]) of [[Townsend's big-eared bat]], ''Corynorhinus townsendii''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Big-eared-townsend-fledermaus.jpg?width=200 "patagia]]) of [[Townsend's big-eared bat]], ''Corynorhinus townsendii''")
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![[[Tent-making bat]]s (''Uroderma bilobatum'') in Costa Rica](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Common tent-making bats.JPG?width=200 "[[Tent-making bat]]s (''Uroderma bilobatum'') in Costa Rica")
![The [[common vampire bat]] (''Desmodus rotundus'') feeds on blood ([[hematophagy]]).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Desmo-boden (cropped).jpg?width=200 "The [[common vampire bat]] (''Desmodus rotundus'') feeds on blood ([[hematophagy]]).")
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![[[Francisco Goya]], ''The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters'', 1797](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes - The sleep of reason produces monsters (No. 43), from Los Caprichos - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "[[Francisco Goya]], ''The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters'', 1797")
![[[Giant golden-crowned flying fox]], ''Acerodon jubatus''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Golden crowned fruit bat.jpg?width=200 "[[Giant golden-crowned flying fox]], ''Acerodon jubatus''")
![The [[greater noctule bat]] (''Nyctalus lasiopterus'') uses its large teeth to catch birds.<ref name=popa/>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GreaterNoctule.JPG?width=200 "The [[greater noctule bat]] (''Nyctalus lasiopterus'') uses its large teeth to catch birds.<ref name=popa/>")
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!["Chiroptera" from [[Ernst Haeckel]]'s ''[[Kunstformen der Natur]]'', 1904](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Haeckel Chiroptera.jpg?width=200 "\"Chiroptera\" from [[Ernst Haeckel]]'s ''[[Kunstformen der Natur]]'', 1904")
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![Acoustics of the songs of [[Mexican free-tailed bat]]s<ref name="Bohn"/>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Journal.pone.0006746.g001.png?width=200 "Acoustics of the songs of [[Mexican free-tailed bat]]s<ref name=\"Bohn\"/>")
![A [[little brown bat]] with [[white nose syndrome]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Little Brown Bat with White Nose Syndrome (Greeley Mine, cropped).jpg?width=200 "A [[little brown bat]] with [[white nose syndrome]]")
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![The bat scientist Lauri Lutsar is checking the age of the bat he is holding as part of a national monitoring program in [[Estonia]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Bat Scientists Lauri Lutsar.jpg?width=200 "The bat scientist Lauri Lutsar is checking the age of the bat he is holding as part of a national monitoring program in [[Estonia]]")
![A [[tricoloured bat]] (''Perimyotis subflavus'') in [[torpor]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tri-colored bat in torpor.JPG?width=200 "A [[tricoloured bat]] (''Perimyotis subflavus'') in [[torpor]]")
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ORDER OF FLYING MAMMALS
Chiroptera; Bat (animal); Chiropterology; Chiroptologist; Chiropterologist; Chiropteran; Chiropteras; Bat life expectancy; Bat conservation; Bat Conservation; Bat Groups; Bat wing; Bat wings; Flittermouse; Barotrauma and Wind turbines; Bat species; Cheiroptera; Flinder mouse; Bat evolution; Bats; Artificial bat roost; Chiropter; Noctillionine; 🦇; Bat (Flying Mammal); Social behavior of bats; Sexual behavior of bats; Anatomy and physiology of bats; Reproductive biology of bats; Mating behavior of bats; Cultural depictions of bats; Communication in bats; Vision in bats; Thermoregulation in bats; Evolutionary history of bats
(bats, batting, batted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A bat is a specially shaped piece of wood that is used for hitting the ball in baseball, softball, cricket, rounders, or table tennis.
...a baseball bat.
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2.
When you bat, you have a turn at hitting the ball with a bat in baseball, softball, cricket, or rounders.
Australia, put in to bat, made a cautious start.
VERB: V
• batting
...his batting average...
He's likely to open the batting.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n, the N
3.
A bat is a small flying animal that looks like a mouse with wings made of skin. Bats are active at night.
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4.
see also old bat
5.
When something surprising or shocking happens, if someone doesn't bat an eyelid in British English, or doesn't bat an eye in American English, they remain calm and do not show any reaction.
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
If someone does something off their own bat, they do it without anyone else suggesting it. (BRIT)
Whatever she did she did off her own bat. Whatever she did was nothing to do with me.
PHRASE: PHR after v
7.
If something happens right off the bat, it happens immediately. (AM)
He learned right off the bat that you can't count on anything in this business.
PHRASE: usu PHR after v
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ORDER OF FLYING MAMMALS
Chiroptera; Bat (animal); Chiropterology; Chiroptologist; Chiropterologist; Chiropteran; Chiropteras; Bat life expectancy; Bat conservation; Bat Conservation; Bat Groups; Bat wing; Bat wings; Flittermouse; Barotrauma and Wind turbines; Bat species; Cheiroptera; Flinder mouse; Bat evolution; Bats; Artificial bat roost; Chiropter; Noctillionine; 🦇; Bat (Flying Mammal); Social behavior of bats; Sexual behavior of bats; Anatomy and physiology of bats; Reproductive biology of bats; Mating behavior of bats; Cultural depictions of bats; Communication in bats; Vision in bats; Thermoregulation in bats; Evolutionary history of bats
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n.
club
1) to swing a bat
2) a baseball; cricket bat
one's turn batting
3) (AE) at bat (who's at bat?)
misc.
4) (colloq.) (BE) at full bat ('very fast')
II
n.
flying mammal
1) bats fly at night
2) (misc.) as blind as a bat
