Meaning

9 senses
  1. (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.

    To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the pancake batter.

    Backteig, Ausbackteig, Teig

    те́стоtésto, клярkljar

    ті́стоtísto

    a liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking

  2. (countable, slang)A binge; a heavy drinking session.

    When he went on a batter, he became very violent.

    Gelage, Trinkgelage, Saufgelage

    запо́йzapój

  3. (countable, uncountable)A paste of clay or loam.

  4. (countable)A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

  5. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

    Neigung, Böschung, Anlauf

  6. The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

    The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.

    Batter

    бэ́ттерbɛ́tter, бью́щийbʹjúščij

  7. A player of the batting side now on the field.

  8. The player now receiving strike; the striker.

  9. Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

Examples

74 sentences
  1. The firemen battered down the door.

    ruПожарные вышибли дверь. — marafon

    deDie Feuerwehrmänner schlugen die Tür ein. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. He is a very good batter.

    deEr ist ein sehr guter Schläger. — al_ex_an_der

  3. Tom is a very good batter.

    deTom ist ein sehr guter Schläger. — wolfgangth

  4. Tom is a pretty good batter.

  5. Tom is a left-handed batter.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
beaten mixture of flour and liquid:
Русский
By meaning 3
beaten mixture of flour and liquid:
binge:
player attempting to hit the ball:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
beaten mixture of flour and liquid:
binge:
a slope:
player attempting to hit the ball:

Origin

From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre

From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”). Doublet of batture.

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Forms

plural: batters
Singularbatter
Pluralbatters

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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