Plank vs Batten - What's the difference?
plank | batten |
A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
(British, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
That which supports or upholds.
* Southey
To cover something with planking.
* Dryden
To bake (fish) on a piece of cedar lumber.
* 1998 , Richard Gerstell, American Shad in the Susquehanna River Basin (page 147)
(colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
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* 2011 May 24,
To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
To feed (on); to revel (in).
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XIV:
To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
* Garth
* Emerson
To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
* Milton
To fertilize or enrich, as land.
A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
(nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
In transitive terms the difference between plank and batten
is that plank is to harden, as hat bodies, by felting while batten is to fertilize or enrich, as land.In intransitive terms the difference between plank and batten
is that plank is to pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place while batten is to gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.plank
English
Noun
(en noun)- His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* plank spankerVerb
(en verb)- to plank a floor or a ship
- Planked with pine.
- Along the lower river, planked shad dinners (baked and broiled) were highly popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- to plank money in a wager
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- The woman, known as Claudia, fell from a 2m wall after earlier demonstrating the wrong way to plank' on a small stool while holding a bottle of wine. A friend said some guests had not heard of ' planking and Claudia was demonstrating how ridiculous it was.
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- Perth man Simon Carville became an internet sensation after he was photographed planking naked in the arms of famous Perth statue the Eliza.
batten
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Verb
(en verb)- The brain had its own food on which it battened , and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
- The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.
- Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history
- ''Robber barons who battened on the poor
- battening our flocks