different between smite vs batter
smite
English
Alternative forms
- smight (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English smiten, from Old English sm?tan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan? (“to sling; throw; smear”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd- (“to smear, whisk, strike, rub”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smiete (“to throw, toss”), West Frisian smite (“to throw”), Low German smieten (“to throw, chuck, toss”), Dutch smijten (“to fling, hurl, throw”), Middle Low German besmitten (“to soil, sully”), German schmeißen (“to fling, throw”), Danish smide (“to throw”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: sm?t, IPA(key): /sma?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Verb
smite (third-person singular simple present smites, present participle smiting, simple past smote or smited or (obsolete) smit, past participle smitten or smote or smited or (obsolete) smit)
- (archaic) To hit, to strike.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
- To strike down or kill with godly force.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 3:19–20:
- And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 3:19–20:
- To injure with divine power.
- To kill violently; to slay.
- To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
- To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
- 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
- Let us not mistake the goodness of God, nor imagine that because he smites us, therefore we are forsaken by him.
- 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
- (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.
Noun
smite (plural smites)
- (archaic, rare) A heavy blow or stroke with a weapon, tool or the hand.
Translations
Anagrams
- METIs, MSTie, Metis, Métis, STEMI, Times, e-stim, emits, i-stem, items, metis, mites, métis, setim, stime, times
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian sm?ta, from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?smit?/
Verb
smite
- to throw
- to fling
Inflection
Further reading
- “smite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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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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