batter
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbætə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbætəɹ/, [ˈbæɾɚ]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
- Homophone: badder (in accents with flapping)
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English bateren, from Old French batre (“to beat”).
Verb[edit]
batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)
- To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
- The firemen battered down the door.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IV, scene ii:
- The golden ſtature of their feathered bird
That ſpreads her wings vpon the city wals,
Shall not defend it from our battering ſhot.
- (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
- I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
- (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
- Synonym: thrash
- Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
- #* 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK):
- There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.
- (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
- Synonym: intoxicate
- That cocktails will batter you!
- I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
- (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”).
Noun[edit]
batter (countable and uncountable, plural batters)
- (cooking, countable, uncountable) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
- pancake batter
- To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter.
- (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
- A paste of clay or loam.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, OCLC 1180792622:
- The batter or lome that goeth to the making of [bricks]
- (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- 1881, The Printing Times and Lithographer (page 251)
- In repairing batters at the edges of the plate, when the bevel has been torn away by the catches, &c., it is necessary to solder a piece of metal along the side.
- 1881, The Printing Times and Lithographer (page 251)
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Etymology 3[edit]
Unknown.
Verb[edit]
batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)
- (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
Noun[edit]
batter (plural batters)
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
Translations[edit]
Etymology 4[edit]
Noun[edit]
batter (plural batters)
- (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
- (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
- (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
- (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
- 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo
- It's hard to put this on his shoulders while the guy is so young, but I firmly believe Kane could go down as New Zealand's greatest ever batter.
- 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo
Synonyms[edit]
- (all cricket senses): batsman
Hyponyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
- (all cricket senses): cricketer
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Verb[edit]
batter
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
batter
Conjugation[edit]
infinitive | simple | batter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | battant /ba.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | batté /ba.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | batte /bat/ |
battes /bat/ |
batte /bat/ |
battons /ba.tɔ̃/ |
battez /ba.te/ |
battent /bat/ |
imperfect | battais /ba.tɛ/ |
battais /ba.tɛ/ |
battait /ba.tɛ/ |
battions /ba.tjɔ̃/ |
battiez /ba.tje/ |
battaient /ba.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | battai /ba.te/ |
battas /ba.ta/ |
batta /ba.ta/ |
battâmes /ba.tam/ |
battâtes /ba.tat/ |
battèrent /ba.tɛʁ/ | |
future | batterai /ba.tʁe/ |
batteras /ba.tʁa/ |
battera /ba.tʁa/ |
batterons /ba.tʁɔ̃/ |
batterez /ba.tʁe/ |
batteront /ba.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | batterais /ba.tʁɛ/ |
batterais /ba.tʁɛ/ |
batterait /ba.tʁɛ/ |
batterions /ba.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
batteriez /ba.tə.ʁje/ |
batteraient /ba.tʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | batte /bat/ |
battes /bat/ |
batte /bat/ |
battions /ba.tjɔ̃/ |
battiez /ba.tje/ |
battent /bat/ |
imperfect2 | battasse /ba.tas/ |
battasses /ba.tas/ |
battât /ba.ta/ |
battassions /ba.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
battassiez /ba.ta.sje/ |
battassent /ba.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | batte /bat/ |
— | battons /ba.tɔ̃/ |
battez /ba.te/ |
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compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
batter
Derived terms[edit]
Luxembourgish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old High German bittar, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Cognate with German bitter, English bitter, Dutch bitter, Icelandic bitur.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)
Declension[edit]
number and gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass batter | si ass batter | et ass batter | si si(nn) batter | |
nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | batteren | batter | battert | batter |
independent without determiner | batteres | batterer | |||
dative | after any declined word | batteren | batterer | batteren | batteren |
as first declined word | batterem | batterem |
See also[edit]
Romansch[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (Sutsilvan) batar
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin battere, present active infinitive of battō, alternative form of Latin battuō (“beat, pound; fight”).
Verb[edit]
batter
- (Rumantsch Grischun) To beat.
Derived terms[edit]
Scots[edit]
Noun[edit]
batter (uncountable)
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