What is the difference between batten and lathe?
batten | lathe |
To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
To feed (on); to revel (in).
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XIV:
To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
* Garth
* Emerson
To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
* Milton
To fertilize or enrich, as land.
A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
(nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
To invite; bid; ask.
(obsolete) An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century.
A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; a lay, or batten.
(obsolete) A granary; a barn.
To shape with a lathe.
(computer graphics) To produce a 3D model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis.
As verbs the difference between batten and lathe
is that batten is to become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding or batten can be to furnish with battens while lathe is to invite; bid; ask or lathe can be to shape with a lathe.As nouns the difference between batten and lathe
is that batten is a thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point while lathe is (obsolete) an administrative division of the county of kent, in england, from the anglo-saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early twentieth century or lathe can be a machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.batten
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Verb
(en verb)- The brain had its own food on which it battened , and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
- The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.
- Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history
- ''Robber barons who battened on the poor
- battening our flocks
Derived terms
* battnerEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m),Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* batten down * batten down the hatchesReferences
* FM 55-501 Marine Crewman’s Handbooklathe
English
(wikipedia lathe)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lathen, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
Etymology 2
From (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
(etyl) . More at lade.Noun
(en noun)- He shaped the bedpost by turning it on a lathe .
- Of the windows of the village there was one yet more often occupied; for on Sundays from morning to night, and every morning when the weather was bright, one could see at the dormer-window of the garret the profile of Monsieur Binet bending over his lathe , whose monotonous humming could be heard at the Lion d'Or.
- (Chaucer)