different between batter vs infringe

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)

1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

2. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

3. (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.

4. (Britain, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.

   Synonym: intoxicate

5. (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)

1. (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

2. (countable, slang) A binge, a heavy drinking session.

   Synonym: binge

3. A paste of clay or loam.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

4. (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)

1. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

1. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

Translations

Etymology 4

bat +? -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

batter (plural batters)

1. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

   Synonyms: hitter, batsman (rare)

2. (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

1. first-person singular present indicative of batteren
2. imperative of batteren

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.te/

Verb

batter

1. (sports) To bat.

Conjugation

Italian

Verb

batter

1. 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)

1. 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

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) To beat.

Derived terms

• batta-ovs
• battasenda

Scots

Noun

batter (uncountable)

1. A batter.
2. A glue; paste.

English

Alternative forms

• enfringe (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin infringere (“to break off, break, bruise, weaken, destroy”), from in (“in”) + frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?f??nd?/

Verb

infringe (third-person singular simple present infringes, present participle infringing, simple past and past participle infringed)

1. (transitive) Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
2. (intransitive) Break in or encroach on something.

Synonyms

(Break or violate a treaty, a law): transgress

Derived terms

• infringement
• infringer

Related terms

• infraction

Translations

Further reading

• infringe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• infringe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• infringe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Infinger, enfiring, refining

Latin

Verb

?nfringe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?nfring?

Portuguese

Verb

infringe

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of infringir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of infringir

Spanish

Verb

infringe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of infringir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of infringir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of infringir.