Batter vs Pulp - What's the difference?
batter | pulp |
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.
(fiction) Of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.
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A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter]] and being characteristically [[print, printed on rough, unfinished paper.
The soft center of a fruit
The soft center of a tooth
A mixture of wood, cellulose and/or rags and water ground up to make paper.
Mass of chemically processed wood fibres (cellulose).
As verbs the difference between batter and pulp
is that batter is to hit or strike violently and repeatedly or batter can be (architecture) to slope (of walls, buildings etc) while pulp is to make, or be made into pulp .As nouns the difference between batter and pulp
is that batter is a beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (eg pancakes, cake, or yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (eg fish) prior to frying or batter can be an incline on the outer face of a built wall or batter can be (baseball) the player attempting to hit the ball with a bat while pulp is a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.As an adjective pulp is
(fiction) of or pertaining to pulp magazines; in the style of a pulp magazine or the material printed within such a publication.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 ----pulp
English
(wikipedia pulp)Adjective
(en adjective)- The Nightwing annual had what felt like a very 'pulp-ish' plot, and the Superman annual was great, with a very pulp plot and a incredible Doc Savage tribute cover.
- Rather than Asimov I might suggest Stanley Weinbaum (since he died young and early in his career, he is far more "pulp " than Asimov - and remarkably readable - there is a LANCER collection of some of his short stories).