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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English pushen, poshen, posson, borrowed from Middle French pousser (Modern French pousser) from Old French poulser, from Latin pulsare, frequentative of pellere (past participle pulsus) "to beat, strike". Doublet of pulsate. Displaced native Middle English thrucchen ("to push"; > Modern English thrutch) (from Old English þryccan (“to push”)), Middle English scauten (“to push, thrust”) (from Old Norse skota), Middle English thuden, thudden (“to push, press, thrust”) (from Old English þ?dan, þyddan (“to thrust, press, push”)). Partially displaced Middle English schoven (“to push, shove”) (from Old English scofian), Middle English schuven (“to shove, push”) (from Old English sc?fan, sc?ofan (“to shove, push, thrust”))

Pronunciation

• enPR: po?osh, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (Appalachian) IPA^(key): [pu?]
• IPA^(key): [p???]
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

push (third-person singular simple present pushes, present participle pushing, simple past and past participle pushed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

2. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
   • December 7, 1710, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner, Number 18

     We are pushed for an answer.

   • December 22, 1711, letter to The Spectator

     Ambition […] pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour and reputation to the actor.

3. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.

   • to push his fortune

4. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).

5. (intransitive) To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
6. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.

   (= he's nearly sixty years old)

7. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

8. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
9. To make a higher bid at an auction.
10. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
11. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
12. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
13. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
14. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

    • If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, […] the ox shall be stoned.

15. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
16. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).

Synonyms

• (transitive: apply a force to (an object) so it moves away): press, shove, thrutch
• (continue to attempt to persuade): press, urge
• (continue to promote): press, advertise, promote
• (come close to): approach, near
• (intransitive: apply force to an object so that it moves away): press, shove, thring
• (tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents): bear down

Antonyms

• (apply a force to something so it moves away): draw, pull, tug
• (put onto a stack): pop

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• pedal pushers
• push it

Translations

Noun

push (countable and uncountable, plural pushes)

1. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

2. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

3. A great effort (to do something).

4. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
5. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
6. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
7. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
8. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.

9. (slang, Britain, obsolete, now chiefly Australia) A particular crowd or throng or people.
   • 1891, Banjo Paterson, An Evening in Dandaloo

     Till some wild, excited person

     Galloped down the township cursing,

     "Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,

     Roll up, Dandaloo!"

   • 1994, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage 2015, p. 37:

     My father […] was soon as unambiguously Australian as any other member of the rough Rugby pushes that in the years before the Great War made up the mixed and liverly world of South Brisbane.

10. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time

Derived terms

• give someone the push
• push factor

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably French poche. See pouch.

Pronunciation

Noun

push (plural pushes)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.
   • Template:RQ:Bacon Of Praise

     a Push rise upon his Nose

References

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

Anagrams

• PHUs, Phus, shup

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *puša, from *puksja, from Proto-Indo-European *pewk- (“covered with hair, bushy”). Related to Sanskrit ????? (púccha, “tail”), Proto-Slavic *pux? (“down”).

Noun

push m (indefinite plural pusha, definite singular pushi, definite plural pushat)

1. light hair, fluff, down, nap, pile

References

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.