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batter
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?bæt?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?bæt??/, [?bæ??]
- Rhymes: -æt?(?)
- Homophone: badder (in accents with flapping)
Etymology 1
From Middle English bateren, from Old French batre (“to beat”).
Verb
batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)
- To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
- (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
- (figuratively) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
- Synonym: thrash
- 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, "Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification," Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):
- There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so at times against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.
- (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
- Synonym: intoxicate
- (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
Derived terms
- battered person syndrome
- battered woman syndrome
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bature, from Old French bateure (“the action of beating”), from batre (“to beat”).
Noun
batter (countable and uncountable, plural batters)
- (cooking, countable, uncountable) 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
- (countable, slang) A binge, a heavy drinking session.
- Synonym: binge
- A paste of clay or loam.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
Translations
Etymology 3
Unknown.
Verb
batter (third-person singular simple present batters, present participle battering, simple past and past participle battered)
- (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
Noun
batter (plural batters)
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
Translations
Etymology 4
bat +? -er (“agent suffix”).
Noun
batter (plural batters)
- (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
- Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)
- (cricket, rare) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.
- Synonym: batsman
- Hyponyms: batswoman, batsman
- Hypernym: cricketer
- 2015, Brendon McCullum, ESPNcricnfo
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Tarbet, tabret
Dutch
Verb
batter
- first-person singular present indicative of batteren
- imperative of batteren
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.te/
Verb
batter
- (sports) To bat.
Conjugation
Italian
Verb
batter
- Apocopic form of battere
Derived terms
- in un batter d'occhio
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German bittar, from Proto-West Germanic *bit(t)r, from Proto-Germanic *bitraz. Cognate with German bitter, English bitter, Dutch bitter, Icelandic bitur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bate?/, [?b?t?]
Adjective
batter (masculine batteren, neuter battert, comparative méi batter, superlative am battersten)
- bitter
Declension
See also
- (tastes) Geschmaach; batter, salzeg, sauer, séiss (Category: lb:Taste)
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Sutsilvan) batar
Etymology
From Late Latin battere, present active infinitive of batt?, alternative form of Latin battu? (“beat, pound; fight”).
Verb
batter
- (Rumantsch Grischun) To beat.
Derived terms
- batta-ovs
- battasenda
Scots
Noun
batter (uncountable)
- A batter.
- A glue; paste.
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cane
English
Etymology
From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na). Related to channel and canal.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [k?e?n]
- Rhymes: -e?n
- Homophone: Cain
Noun
cane (countable and uncountable, plural canes)
- A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
- (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
- Synonyms: stem, stalk, (of a tree) trunk
- (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
- Synonym: reed
- (uncountable) Sugar cane
- Synonym: molasses cane
- (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
- (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
- The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
- (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
- Synonyms: rod, switch
- (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
- Synonyms: a caning, six of the best, whipping, cuts
- A lance or dart made of cane
- 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
- Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.
- 1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
- (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
- a rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
- (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
- Synonyms: staff, walking stick
- (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
- (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
- Synonyms: blind man's cane, white cane
- (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
- (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
cane (third-person singular simple present canes, present participle caning, simple past and past participle caned)
- to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
- (Britain, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat
- (Britain, New Zealand, slang) to do something well, in a competent fashion
- (Britain, slang, intransitive) to produce extreme pain
- (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
Translations
Anagrams
- -ance, Caen, Cena, Nace, acne, ance
Corsican
Etymology
From Latin canis, from Proto-Italic *k?, from Proto-Indo-European *?w?. Cognates include Italian cane and Romanian câine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kan?/
Noun
cane m (plural cani, feminine cagna)
- (Cismontane dialects) dog (Canis familiaris)
Synonyms
- (Ultramontane dialects) ghjacaru
References
- “cane, cani” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
French
Etymology
From Middle French cane (“duck, female duck; literally floater, little boat”), from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *kan? (“boat, vessel”). See Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”). Cognate with Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), Dutch kaan (“boat”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse kn?rr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kan/
- Homophone: Cannes
Noun
cane f (plural canes)
- duck (female duck)
Related terms
- canard
Further reading
- “cane” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- Caen
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ka.ne/
- Hyphenation: cà?ne
Etymology 1
From the Latin canem, accusative form of canis, from Proto-Italic *k? (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *?w? (accusative *?wónm?). Compare Portuguese cão, Romanian câine and Aromanian cãni.
Noun
cane m (plural cani, feminine cagna)
- dog, male dog
- Hypernym: canide
- (firearms) hammer
Derived terms
Related terms
Adjective
cane (invariable)
- (of cold) freezing, biting
- (of pain) terrible, dreadful, awful
See also
- abbaiare
- bau
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
cane f
- plural of cana
Adjective
cane
- feminine plural of cano
Anagrams
- acne, cena
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ka.ne/, [?kän?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ka.ne/, [?k??n?]
Verb
cane
- second-person singular present active imperative of can?
Noun
cane
- ablative singular of canis
References
- cane in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- cane in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French cane, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ????? (kánna), from Akkadian ???? (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian ???????? (gi.na).
Alternative forms
- canne, kane, kanne
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ka?n(?)/
Noun
cane (plural canes)
- bamboo, sugar cane, flax, or a similar simple-stemmed plant
- the stem or stalk of such a plant, often used to write with
- (rare) a metal implement used for surgery
- (rare) a bodily passage or tube, such as the trachea
Derived terms
- canel
Descendants
- English: cane
- Scots: cane
References
- “c?ne, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-01.
Etymology 2
From Old English canne.
Noun
cane
- Alternative form of canne
Old French
Etymology
From Latin canna (“reed, cane”)
Noun
cane f (oblique plural canes, nominative singular cane, nominative plural canes)
- tube
Descendants
- French: canne
- Norman: tchêne (Jersey), kyeen (Sark)
- ? Middle English: cane, canne, kane, kanne
- English: cane
- Scots: cane
Sardinian
Alternative forms
- cani (campidanese)
Etymology
From the Latin canem, accusative form of canis, from Proto-Italic *k? (accusative *kwanem), from Proto-Indo-European *?w? (accusative *?wónm?). Compare Italian cane, Portuguese cão, Spanish can, French chien and Romanian câine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /cane/
Noun
cane m or f (plural canes)
- dog
- Synonym: perru
Venetian
Noun
cane
- plural of cana
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