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Definition: Bunt |
BuntNoun1. The act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat. 2. Disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores. 3. Similar to Tilletia caries. 4. Fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores. Verb1. Hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance. 2. To strike, thrust or shove against, often with head or horns: "He butted his sister out of the way.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bunt" was first used: 1825. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Section of stronger netting often loosely hung to form a bag or pocket, where the catch is aggregated when the net is hauled. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BUNT. An apron. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Transportation | A manoeuvre in which an aircraft performs part of an inverted or outside loop. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are two types of bunts. The first is the sacrifice bunt, in which the batter puts the ball into play with the intention of advancing a baserunner, in exchange for the batter being thrown out. The sacrifice bunt is most often used to advance a runner from first to second base, although the runner may also be advanced from second to third base. The sacrifice bunt is most often used in close, low-scoring games, and it is usually performed by weaker hitters, (and by pitchers in the National League). The squeeze play occurs when the batter bunts for the purpose of scoring a runner from third base. The squeeze play is a very audacious play, and to witness it is one of the most exciting experiences for the baseball fan.
A batter may also bunt for a base hit. This is not a sacrifice play, because the batter is trying to reach base safely, without any intention of advancing a runner. A batter may bunt for a base hit while there are runners on base. In this case, if the scorer judges that the intention of the batter was to bunt for a base hit, then the batter will not receive credit for a sacrifice bunt. Otherwise, a sacrifice bunt is not counted as an at-bat, and if a runner scores, the batter may be credited with an RBI.
Bunting is not easy. The primary goal in bunting is to put the ball in play as far from the fielders as possible. This requires not only physical dexterity and concentration, but also a knowledge of the fielders' positions, their relation to the baserunner or baserunners, and knowledge of the pitcher's most likely pitches.
A "swinging bunt" occurs when a poorly hit ball rolls a short distance into play, much like a bunt. A swinging bunt is often the result of a check-swing, and only has the appearance of a bunt. It is not a true bunt, and if the scorer judges that the batter intended to hit the ball, it cannot be counted as a sacrifice.
The bunt was introduced into the game by Dickey Pearce of the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1866, but was not common until the 1880s, and was not an accepted part of baseball strategy until the 20th century. The bunt has enjoyed periodic waves of acceptance and use throughout baseball history, coinciding with the periodic shifts of dominance between pitching and hitting over the decades. During periods of pitching dominance, for example during the dead-ball era or the 1960s, bunting was an important offensive weapon. However, during periods of hitting dominance, for example at the moment, the value of the bunt has often been questioned. The role of the bunt in baseball strategy is one of the perennial topics of discussion for baseball fans.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bunt."
Synonyms: BuntSynonyms: stinking smut (n), butt (v), drag a bunt (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Verb: give an impetus; Noun: impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bunt |
| English words defined with "bunt": Pepperbrand. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bunt": Karnal bunt. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bunt" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (colored, colorful, coloured, colourful, many-coloured, miscellaneously, motley, mottled, multicolored, multicoloured, parti-colored, spotted, stained, varicolored, varied), Norwegian (hank), Polish (mutiny, rebellion, revolt), Serbo-Croatian (insurgence, insurgency), Swedish (boundle, bundle, faggot, package, packet, parcel, sheaf, wad). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Bunt. B-U-N-T in perfect cursive (Billy Madison ; writing credit: Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bunt krwi i zelaza (1927) | |
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Economic History | Norway | Imports from the U.S. have almost disappeared the last two years, and in year 2000, importers of wheat from U.S. were hit by an extra control tax of US$ 3 per ton due to Karnal Bunt problems in US. At the moment we see this as a trade barrier which has to be solved if US exporters are to be able to sell to the Norwegian market. (references) |
Political Economy | GREECE | Agricultural Products: Greek testing methods for Karnal bunt disease in U.S. wheat have served as a de facto ban on imports and transshipment of wheat for the last three years due to a high incidence of false positive results. (references) |
Trade | Greece | Greek testing methods for karnal bunt disease in U.S. wheat have served as a de facto ban on imports and transshipment of wheat for the last three years due to a high incidence of false positive results. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bunt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bunt" is used about 2 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bunt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bunt | Last name | 400 | 23,182 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bunt": Bunt rush ♦ common wheat bunt ♦ drag a bunt. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bunt | 28 | bunt defense | 3 |
bunt cake recipe | 13 | bunt karnal | 3 |
bunt cake | 9 | bunt sacrifice statistics | 3 |
bunt pan | 8 | art bunt landschaften | 2 |
art bunt cobra | 4 | baseball bunt sacrifice | 2 |
baseball bunt | 4 | bunt sacrifice | 2 |
best bunt pan | 4 | art blaue bunt reiter | 2 |
art bunt dada | 4 | bunt cake cake coffee recipe | 2 |
cathleen bunt | 4 | art bunt realismus | 2 |
bunt cleofe mail | 3 | art bunt moderne | 2 |
bunt drag | 3 | art bunt neue sachlichkeit | 2 |
bunt slap | 3 | bunt granny | 2 |
abstraktion art bunt | 3 | art bunt romantik | 2 |
bunt coverage | 3 | bunt cake chocolate | 2 |
bunt mas | 3 | art bunt gotik | 2 |
art baroque bunt | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bunt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نطحة (butt, butting), نطح (butt, gore, horn, leak, ram, seep), ضربة برفق, ضرب كرة البيسبولي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | главня по житото, мушкам с рога, блъскам с глава, дъно на рибарска мрежа. (various references) | |
Danish | pose (balloon, sieve), halvt udvendigt loop, fiskepose. (various references) | |
Dutch | zak (bag, bastard, box, container, jug, pocket, sack, son-of-a-bitch, vessel), halve lus voorover. (various references) | |
Finnish | ulkopuolinen puolisilmukka, perä (back, bedrock, butt, rear, stern, tail end). (various references) | |
French | sac, poche (bunch), demi-boucle inversée. (various references) | |
German | Buk (Business Cooperation centre), Bauch (abdomen, belly, bowels, bowl, bulge, gut, middle, paunch, potbelly, stomach, tummy, ventral), Tunnel (subway, tube, tunnel, tunnels), Abschwung (contraction). (various references) | |
Greek | κτυπώ με το κεφάλι, σάκκος (pack), χαλαρό τμήμα, ανάστροφη ανακύκλωση. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vitorla hasa, kidagad (to bag, to balloon, to belly out, to jut out, to puff, to swell out). (various references) | |
Italian | virata imperiale, sacco (a great deal, a lot, bag, budget, punching bag, sac, sack, sackful, sackfuls), capovolta. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | " (sacrifice fly). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎ (sacrifice fly), バント . (various references) | |
Korean | 번트. (various references) | |
Manx | boogh (bow oar, bow of ship, bulge, bunt of sail; soft yelp or bark, bunt; soft yelp or bark, protrusion, protuberance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | untbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bojo (boss, bowl, bulge), saco (bag, billfold, budget, notecase, sac, sack, vesicle, wallet), looping parcial invertido, gorgulho (weevil), fazer bojo (bilge, bulge), copejada, cavidade (antrum, belly, bowl, cave, cavity, chuck-hole, delve, dent, hole, scoop, vesicle). (various references) | |
Romanian | umfla (bag, belly, blow, expand, fill, fill out, grow, heighten, inflate, overdraw, pad, puff, swell), ghiont (dig, hunch, jog, nudge, stick), înghionti (jostle, nudge, shove). (various references) | |
Russian | мотня невода, мокрая головня, пузо паруса, посылать (delegate, despatch, dispatch, refer, send, sends, sent, tender, transmit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | udarac (beat, blow, bogey, dig, hit, impact, jolt, lash, lick, puff, punch, stroke, thwack, wallop, whack), guranje (extrusion, impulsion, jostle, poke, push, shove, thrust, thrusting). (various references) | |
Spanish | viraje imperial, tizón (smut), saco (bag, carrier bag, coat, jacket, sac, sack, sackful, sackfuls), golpear ligeramente (dab, tap, tip), golpe ligero (Cann, dab, tap, touch), copo (flake, tuft). (various references) | |
Swedish | buk (abdomen, abdominal, belly, bilge, bow window, paunch, tummy), påse (bag, bagful, pouch, sack). (various references) | |
Thai | ตีอย่างแรง (กีฬาเบสบอล). (various references) | |
Turkish | tos vurma, topa hafif vurma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ударяти (beat, bump, bust, dab, hit, knock, smite, strike), удар (bat, beat, biff, bobbing, buffet, cant, chop, clap, cracker, hit, impact, impingement, impulsion, jolt, kick, knock, onslaught, percussion, pick, push, put, shock, shot, smite, spat, stab, strike, stroke, tick, tilt, wap), пузо (gut), пхати (poke, push). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | bounten. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bunt": bunted, bunter, bunters, bunting, buntings, buntline, buntlines, bunts. (additional references) | |
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"Bunt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bant, banty, baunt, benit, benth, benti, benty, bhn, Binot, bint, bnst, boant, Bondt, bont, bonto, Bonytt, bount, Buet, buft, buit, bujt, Bukta, bult, bumt, Bundt, bune, bunet, bunf, bunr, bunta, bunte, Buntha, bunto, bunty, buntz, bunz, buyt, bynt, qunt, unt, vunt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bunt" (pronounced bu"n) |
| 3 | b u" n | bun, Bunn. |
| 2 | -u" n | begun, done, Donne, dun, fun, gun, Hun, Jun, mun, none, nun, one, outdone, outrun, overdone, pun, redone, rerun, run, shun, son, spun, stun, sun, ton, tonne, Un, undone, won. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: bun, but, nub, nut, tub, tun. | |
-2 letters: nu, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: blunt, brunt, bundt, bunts, burnt, tabun. | |
+2 letters: blunts, bounty, bouton, brunet, brunts, bundts, bunted, bunter, burnet, burton, butane, butene, button, cobnut, numbat, obtund, subnet, tabuns, tubing, turban, unbelt, unbent, unbolt. | |
+3 letters: abluent, antibug, banquet, bawsunt, bitumen, blunted, blunter, bluntly, botulin, boutons, brunets, bruting, bundist, bunters, bunting, buoyant, burnets, burnout, burthen, burtons, busting, butanes, butanol, butenes, butling, butting, buttons, buttony, butyrin, cobnuts, cutbank, dustbin, gunboat, inbuilt, inburst, numbats, numbest, obtunds, outburn, subnets, subrent, subteen, subtend, subtone, subunit, sunbath, sunbelt, tabuing, tribune, tubbing, tubings, tubulin, tunable, tunably, turbans, turbine, unbated, unbelts, unblest, unbolts, unbuilt, unburnt. | |
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