Battle vs Ear - What's the difference?
battle | ear |
Improving; nutritious; fattening.
Fertile; fruitful.
To nourish; feed.
To render fertile or fruitful, as in soil.
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
A struggle; a contest.
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*(rfdate) (Henry Morley) (1822-1894):
*:The whole intellectual battle that had at its centre the best poem of the best poet of that day.
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*:In truth, Tottenham never really looked like taking all three points and this defeat means they face a battle to reach the knockout stages—with their next home game against PAOK Salonika on 30 November likely to prove decisive.
*2012',
*:Australian broadcaster Clive James has admitted that he is losing his long-fought battle with leukaemia.
A division of an army; a battalion.
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*:THenne kyng Arthur made redy his hoost in x batails' and Nero was redy in the felde afore the castel Tarabil with a grete hoost / & he had x ' batails with many mo peple than Arthur had
*(rfdate) (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626):
*:The king divided his army into three battles .
*(rfdate) (1721-1793):
*:The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle , and on it alone depended the fate of every action.
*2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 634:
*:‘I will have more than twelve thousand men. I mean to divide them into three battles and start up the causeway a half-day apart.’
(label) The main body, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; battalia.
:(Hayward)
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To assail in battle; to fight or struggle.
(countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
(countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear , and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
(countable, slang) A police informant.
* 1976 , Stirling Silliphant, Dean Riesner, Gail Morgan Hickman, .
The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones.
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The privilege of being kindly heard; favour; attention.
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* (William Shakespeare)
That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; a prominence or projection on an object, usually for support or attachment; a lug; a handle.
(architecture) An acroterium.
(architecture) A crossette.
(humorous) To take in with the ears; to hear.
* Two Noble Kinsmen
(countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.
(archaic) To plough.
* 1595 , William Shakespeare, Richard II :
As a proper noun battle
is from places in england that have been sites of a battle.As a verb ear is
(label) refuse, deny; repel.battle
English
Etymology 1
From Early Modern English .Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- battle''' grass'', '''''battle pasture
- battle''' soil'', '''''battle land
Derived terms
*Verb
(battl)Derived terms
* (l) *Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from ). Displaced native (etyl) .Alternative forms
* batailNoun
(en noun)Clive James 'near the end' in cancer 'battle , ITV News, 21 June 2012:
Synonyms
* conflict * encounter * contest * actionDerived terms
* battlearray * battlefield * battleground / battle ground * battle of the sexes * battle piece * battle royal * battle song * do battle * drawn battle * fight a losing battle * give battle * join battle * pitched battle * wager of battleVerb
(battl)- She has been battling against cancer for years .
- She has been battling cancer for years .
References
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* *ear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), .Noun
(en noun)- No I'm not kidding, and if you don't give it to me I'll let it out that you’re an ear.
- songsnot all ungrateful to thine ear
- Dionysiuswould give no ear to his suit.
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears .
Alternative forms
* ereDerived terms
* bend somebody's ear * between the ears * by ear * cauliflower ear * earache * earbud * ear canal * eardrum * earful * earhole * earlobe * earmark * earpiece * earphone * earprint * earring * ears are burning * earshot * earsore * ear to the ground * ear trumpet * earwax * external ear * have one's ears lowered * inner ear * little pitchers have big ears * make a silk purse of a sow's ear * middle ear * mind's ear * out on one's ear * outer ear * surfer’s ear * swimmer’s ear * (ear)Verb
(en verb)- I eared her language.
See also
* (wikipedia) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (m).Noun
(en noun)- He is in the fields, harvesting ears of corn.
Synonyms
* head * spikeEtymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- That power I have, discharge; and let them go
- To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,
- For I have none.