batter

Definition of batter in English English dictionary: The slope of a terrace, wall etc
Hydroseeding of unvegetated batters is planned.; To slope (of walls, buildings etc.); A batsman; A binge, a heavy drinking session
When he went on a batter, he became very violent.; 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
To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter.; To hit or strike violently and repeatedly; The person who tries to hit the ball in a sport like baseball
The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.; To coat with batter; a thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery; {n} a mixture of flour, water, eggs and salt; {v} to bruise by beating, wear down; To batter someone means to hit them many times, using fists or a heavy object. He battered her around the head He was battered unconscious. + battered bat·tered Her battered body was discovered in a field; A receding upward slope of the outer face of a structure; A sloping part of a curtain wall The sharp angle at the base of all walls and towers along their exterior surface; talus; Talutage Sloping exterior surface at the base of all walls and towers Built to protect the base of the wall against attack and increase its stability; A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope; semi-liquid mixture of flour, egg, and liquid; If a place is battered by wind, rain, or storms, it is seriously damaged or affected by very bad weather. The country has been battered by winds of between fifty and seventy miles an hour. a storm that's been battering the Northeast coastline. = pound; {f} strike, beat, hit repeatedly; One who wields a bat; a batsman; In sports such as baseball and softball, a batter is a person who hits the ball with a wooden bat. batters and pitchers. see also battered, battering. to hit someone or something again and again, in a way that hurts someone or causes damage (batre or bat ); Batter is a mixture of flour, eggs, and milk that is used in cooking. pancake batter. fish in batter; To slope gently backward; a mixture of flour and eggs that becomes solid when cooked; A semi- liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc; An uncooked pourable mixture usually made up of flour, a liquid, and other ingredients; To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly; An uncooked mixture, usually of flour, eggs, liquid, and a leavening agent, that is thin enough to pour; A sloping part of a curtain wall The sharp angle at the base of all walls and towers along their exterior surface; A player in the batter's box being pitched to by a pitcher When a player becomes a batter depends on his or her position in the batting order; (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting; a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon; the inclination of a surface in relation to a horizontal, a vertical, or, occasionally, an inclined plane (commonly noted on detail plans as so many inches to one foot) See also rake; A semifluid substance, usually composed of flour and other ingredients, into which principal components of food are dipped or with which they are coated, or which may be used directly to form bakery foods [From §110 3(c)]; The steep excavated slope in an open cut mine; A flour-liquid mixture that is thin enough to pour; To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart; A thick, viscous mixture containing a flour or other starch, fat, sugar and other ingedients and baked into cakes or breads Sometimes used to coat foods to be deep-fried; A batsman. Used under the modern fashion for expunging gender from all words, but in fact women cricketers refer to themselves as batsmen (ie. its already gender-neutral, see the batsman article); A sloping part of a curtain wall The sharp angle at the base of all walls and towers along the exterior surface It was used to help objects ricochet off the walls and into enemies; a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting; -The excavated or constructed face of a dam wall, cutting or embankment; Flour or liquid mixture that coats item being cooked, item is usually fried; Flour or meal mixture containing sufficient liquid so it can be poured or dropped from a spoon before baking; An offensive player who takes his position in the batter’s box; To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage; The slope, or inclination from the vertical, of a wall or other structure or portion of a structure; strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"; If someone is battered, they are regularly hit and badly hurt by a member of their family or by their partner. evidence that the child was being battered. boys who witness fathers battering their mothers. battered wives. + battering bat·ter·ing Leaving the relationship does not mean that the battering will stop; make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat"; Paste of clay or loam; {i} one who wields a bat (in a game of baseball, cricket, etc.); baking mixture; A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form; An earth slope formed from placed fill material or cut into the natural hillside, during road construction; A mixture of flour and liquid; A slope; strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent"; A flour-liquid mixture that is thin enough to pour One example is pancake batter; beaten together and used in cookery; A mixture of liquid, flour and other ingredients that can vary in consistency A baking term; If you batter something, you hit it many times, using your fists or a heavy object. They were battering the door, they were breaking in Batter the steaks flat; A liquid mixture (containing flour and other ingredients) that can be stirred
batter's box: One of two areas beside home plate in which a batter is required to stand during an at bat
batter's boxes: plural form of batter's box
batter's box: (Baseball) area on a baseball diamond indicated by lines inside which the batter must stand when at bat
batter's box: an area on a baseball diamond (on either side of home plate) marked by lines within which the batter must stand when at bat
battered: Simple past tense and past participle of batter
battered: Coated with batter
battered: Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up
battered: Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up
batterer: One who batters their spouse: one who commits domestic violence
batterer: Agent noun of batter; one who batters
battering: Present participle of batter
battering: The activity of battering
battered: Something that is battered is old and in poor condition because it has been used a lot. He drove up in a battered old car. a battered leather suitcase
battered: damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat
battered: {s} beaten, hit repeatedly
battered: damaged especially by hard usage; "his battered old hat"
battered: damaged by blows or hard usage; "a battered old car"; "the beaten-up old Ford"
battered: beaten repeatedly with heavy blows; "a battered child"; "the battered woman syndrome"
battered: past of batter
batterer: one who batters
batterer: {i} one who beats, one who hits, abuser
batterer: One who, or that which, batters
battering: the act of subjecting to strong attack
battering: An instance of battering
battering: If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action. Sterling took a battering yesterday as worries grew about the state of Britain's economy. = beating
battering: {i} assault: massacre; repeated physical abuse
batters: third-person singular of batter
batters: plural of batter
fritter batter: batter for making fritters
pancake batter: batter for making pancakes
puff batter: batter for making light hollow cases to hold various fillings