different between batter vs whip

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.

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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

Etymology

From Middle English whippen, wippen (“to flap violently”), from Middle Dutch wippen (“to swing, leap, dance, oscillate”) and Middle Low German wippen (“to move quickly”), from Proto-Germanic *wipjan? (“to move back and forth”). Some similarity to Sanskrit root ???? (vep, “shake, flourish”), Latin vibr? (“I shake”). (See Swedish vippa and Danish vippe (“to shake”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?p, IPA^(key): /w?p/
• Rhymes: -?p
• enPR: hw?p, IPA^(key): /??p/

Noun

whip (plural whips)

1. A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
   1. The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.

2. A blow administered with a whip.
   • 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)

     I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.

3. (hunting) A whipper-in.
   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 27:

     From the far side of the wood came the long shrill screech […] which signifies that one of the whips has viewed the fox quitting the covert.

4. (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes.

5. (UK politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
6. Whipped cream.

7. (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
8. (African-American Vernacular) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
   • 2017, Stormzy, Return of the Rucksack

     Big whip I'm underground parking

9. (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
10. A whipping motion; a thrashing about.

11. The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
12. Any of various pieces that operate with a quick vibratory motion
    1. A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
    2. (music) A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
13. (historical) A coach driver; a coachman.

Synonyms

• (last for directing animals): crop (especially for horses), dressage whip (especially for horses), driving whip (especially for horses), jumping bat (especially for horses), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong
• (lash for corporal punishment): cat (nautical), flail, knout, lash, quirt, scourge, sjambok (South African), thong
• (political party enforcer): party whip

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• whip snake

Translations

Verb

whip (third-person singular simple present whips, present participle whipping, simple past and past participle whipped)

1. (transitive) To hit with a whip.

2. (transitive, by extension) To hit with any flexible object.

3. (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
4. (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.

5. (transitive) To urge into action or obedience.

6. (transitive, politics) To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
7. (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
   • 1677-1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick exercises

     Its string […] is firmly whipt about with small Gut

8. (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
9. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.

   • In half-whipped muslin needles useless lie.

10. (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
11. (transitive, intransitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
    • 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adirondac

      whipping its rough surface for a trout

12. (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.

13. (intransitive) To move very fast.
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

      He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills.

14. (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
    • 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann

      He whips out his pocketbook every moment, and writes descriptions of everything he sees.

15. (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
16. (figuratively) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
17. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.

Synonyms

• (to hit with a whip): Thesaurus:whip
• (to move very fast): flail
• thrash
• thresh

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ghost ride the whip

References

• Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson: 1828. A dictionary of the English language 2nd edition. Publisher: William Pickering, 1828. 831 pages. Page 818. Google Public Domain Books : [2]

Further reading

• whip in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• whip at OneLook Dictionary Search