batter meaning

EN[ˈbætə(ɹ)]

WBatter

Batter or batters may refer to:
Batter (cooking)
Batter (baseball)
Batter (cricket) or batsman
Batter (drum), a part of a snare drum
Batter (crime)
Batter (tort)
BATTeRS, a Japanese asteroid tracking survey
Batter (walls), an intentional slope of walls or earthworks.

NounPLbattersSUF-er
1. 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.
  1. To the dismay of his mother, the boy put his finger into the cake batter.
VerbSGbattersPRbatteringPT, PPbattered
1. to hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
  1. He battered his wife with a walking stick.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - Where the Henley heroine comes across as an awkward, desperate, emotionally battered womanchild, the knockoff's simply dumb, needy, and infantile.
  - Jones was a submariner and could often confuse a batter with his unorthodox delivery.
  - He was out of pancake mix so he had to make the batter from scratch.
2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
  - That pitcher doesn't like the hitters too close to the plate so every once in a while he'll dust off a batter.

Meaning of batter for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "batter" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and an agent noun. It's also a verb.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Morphemes
  - Suffixes
    - Words by suffix
      - Words suffixed with -er
2. Nouns
  - Countable nouns
  - Agent nouns
3. Verbs

Difficultness: Level 3

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Definiteness: Level 8

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