Batter vs Dislocate - What's the difference?
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to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
to coat with batter (the food ingredient).
to defeat soundly; to thrash
(UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate
(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
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
A binge, a heavy drinking session.
A paste of clay or loam.
(printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
to put something out of its usual place
(medicine) to (accidentally) dislodge a skeletal bone from its joint
* {{quote-book
, year= a1420
, year_published= 1894
, author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
, by= (Lanfranc of Milan)
, title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63
, original=
, chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone
, section=
, isbn= 1163911380
, edition=
, publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co
, location= London
, editor= Robert von Fleischhacker
, volume=
, page= 63
, passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate , til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
}}
* Bill dislocated his shoulder in the fall.
As verbs the difference between batter and dislocate
is that batter is to hit or strike violently and repeatedly while dislocate is to put something out of its usual place.As a noun batter
is 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.batter
English
(wikipedia batter)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He battered his wife with a walking stick.
- I prefer it when they batter the cod with breadcrumbs.
- Leeds United battered Charlton 7-0.
- That cocktails will batter you!
- I was battered last night on our pub crawl.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter .
- When he went on a batter , he became very violent.
- (Holland)
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- Hydroseeding of unvegetated batters is planned.
Etymology 4
.Noun
(en noun)- The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.