Batter vs Lash - What's the difference?
batter | lash |
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.
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
(label) A leash in which an animal is caught or held; hence, a snare.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough.
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.}}
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
In British English, it refers to heavy drinking with friends, (i.e. We were out on the lash last night)
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity.
To ply the whip; to strike.
To utter censure or sarcastic language.
(of rain) To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down
* {{quote-news
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, date=October 1
, author=Tom Fordyce
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland
, work=BBC Sport
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
(obsolete) Remiss, lax.
(obsolete) Relaxed.
Soft, watery, wet.
* 1658': Fruits being unwholesome and '''lash before the fourth or fifth Yeare. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 211)
(Ulster) excellent, wonderful
Drunk.
As verbs the difference between batter and lash
is that batter is to hit or strike violently and repeatedly while lash is to strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.As nouns the difference between batter and lash
is that 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 while lash is the thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.As an adjective lash is
remiss, lax.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.
Synonyms
* (baseball) (l)Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----lash
English
Etymology 1
(en)Noun
(es)- I observed that your whip wanted a lash to it.
- The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well.
Verb
(es)- We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. —
- the whale lashes the sea with its tail.
- And big waves lash the frighted shores. —
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- He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. —
- to lash vice
- To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. —
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See also
* lash outEtymology 2
From (etyl) lachier, from (etyl)Verb
(es)- to lash something to a spar
- lash a pack on a horse's back
Etymology 3
From (etyl) lasche'' (French '' ).Adjective
(en adjective)- ''We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash !
- That Chinese (food) was lash !