Batless vs Beatless - What's the difference?
batless | beatless |
(rare) Without bats (the winged mammals).
* 1986 , John Sherry, Maggie's Farm
* 2010 , Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle (page 145)
(music) Having no beat.
* {{quote-news, year=1998, date=April 3, author=Peter Margasak, title=Kranky and Proud of It/, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Labradford's debut album, Prazision, was ambient music for indie rockers, blissfully devoid of both high-gloss digitalia and New Age goo--a series of drifting, beatless soundscapes created with analog synthesizers and heavily treated guitar. }}
As adjectives the difference between batless and beatless
is that batless is (rare) without bats (the winged mammals) while beatless is (music) having no beat.batless
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(-)- He assured me that we would be batless by mid-afternoon. When I asked what would become of the bats, he got rather shifty and said that the cyanide would drive them from the house...
- Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.
Anagrams
* * * *beatless
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