Fatlike vs Batlike - What's the difference?
fatlike | batlike |
Having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal.
* 1838: William Gifford, et al., The Quarterly Review , p. 113:
* 1916 ,
* 1953 , L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between
* 1981 , James B. Twitchell, The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature , p. 29
Similar to that of a bat
* 1912 , Charles B. Hayward, Dirigible Balloons , p. 1:
* 2006 , Les Beletsky, Birds of the World , p. 180:
As adjectives the difference between fatlike and batlike
is that fatlike is resembling fat (the chemical substance) or some aspect of it while batlike is having characteristics similar to those of a bat, usually used with reference to the flying mammal.fatlike
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batlike
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Adjective
(en adjective)- ... ''they cling, like creepers or women, to the nearest support, to fly from that corroding ennui and listlessness, those tumults of the mind, which flit batlike amid the golden-groined ceilings, and cannot be dispelled by the lictor guard.
- He had told himself bitterly as he walked through the streets that she was a figure of the womanhood of her country, a batlike soul waking to the consciousness of itself in darkness and secrecy and loneliness.
- There was a trap somewhere, I felt sure; and though I didn't know the term "hush-money," its meaning flittered, bat-like , about my mind.
- The most famous of these Los Caprichos is “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” (plate 43), which has a sky full of batlike creatures.
- His sketches show the details of batlike wings which were to spread out on the downward stroke and fold up with the upward stroke.
- The Oilbird is one of the few bird species to use batlike echolocation to help navigate the night and cave darkness.
