batter

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈbætə/    /ˈbætə/|/ˈbætɚ/|[ˈbæɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. countable,uncountable
    — To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.
  2. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
  3. The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
    — The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.
  4. A binge; a heavy drinking session. countable,slang
    — When he went on a batter, he became very violent.
  5. A player of the batting side now on the field.
  6. A paste of clay or loam. countable,uncountable
    — The batter or lome that goeth to the making of [bricks]
  7. The player now receiving strike; the striker.
  8. A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form. countable
    — 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.
  9. Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
    — The firemen battered down the door.
  2. To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
  3. To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
    — I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
  4. To defeat soundly; to thrash. figuratively
    — Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
  5. To intoxicate. UK,passive,slang,usually
    — That cocktail will batter you!
  6. To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
  7. To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue. UK,obsolete
    — the bible mentioned in the oath emitted this day , by Andrew Murison , as the book and bible from whence the printed leaves , battered on the B. L. Coy's notes , now challenged as forged , are alleged to be taken

词形变化

batters present,singular,third-person battering participle,present battered participle,past battered past batters plural batters present,singular,third-person battering participle,present battered participle,past battered past batters plural batters plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English batteren, batren, bateren, a frequentative of Middle English batten, baten (“to beat”), equivalent to bat + -er (frequentative suffix).
词源 2
From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”). Doublet of batture.
词源 3
Unknown.
词源 4
Etymology tree
English bat
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English batter
From bat + -er (agent noun suffix).
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