Batter vs Latter - What's the difference?
batter | latter |
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.
relating to or being the second of two items
* I. Watts
near (or nearer) to the end
close (or closer) to the present time
* John Locke
laughter
laugh
As a verb batter
is to hit or strike violently and repeatedly or batter can be (architecture) to slope (of walls, buildings etc).As a noun 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.As an adjective latter is
relating to or being the second of two items.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 ----latter
English
Adjective
(-)- the difference between reason and revelation, and in what sense the latter is superior
- Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania?
Antonyms
* aforesaid * aforementioned * formerStatistics
*Anagrams
* * * ---- Bob ==Jèrriais==Synonyms
* (l), ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==Noun
- en god latter - a good laugh