batter

«batter» in Mova's school dictionary: a runny mixture of flour, eggs and milk used to make… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (batter, uncountable; a batter, batters); verb (batter, batters, battered, battering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Batter is a runny mixture of flour, eggs and milk used to make pancakes, cakes or to coat fried food. tree →

2) A batter is the player who tries to hit the ball in baseball, cricket (usually batsman or batter) or rounders. tree →

3) To batter means to hit hard again and again: waves battered the boat. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking lessons: whisk the batter until smooth; fish in batter (fish and chips). In sports PE: in baseball the batter stands at home plate; in cricket the batter defends the wicket. In stories and news: storms batter the coast. Phrases: pancake batter, cake batter, battered fish.

examples

• Mix the pancake batter until it is smooth. tree →
• Pour the batter into the pan. tree →
• The batter hit a home run. tree →
• Huge waves battered the cliffs. tree →
• Fish and chips come in crispy batter. tree →
• Do not eat raw cake batter with raw egg in it. tree →
• The batter swung and missed. tree →
• The old boat was battered by storms. tree →
• But come, let us get outside before the elephants arrive and batter down the place." tree →

note

Batter for cooking is uncountable; a batter (player) is countable. Do not confuse with butter (yellow fat from milk) or better (more good). Raw batter with raw eggs or flour can make you ill.

In the corpora

• Blueberries hold the same kind of colour substance as red cabbage, so too much baking soda in the batter turns them greenish.
• Raw egg and raw flour can carry germs, so cookie dough and cake batter should be baked before eating.
• In baseball and softball the batter wears a helmet and drops the bat after hitting, never throwing it.
• Fielders close to the batter wear a helmet or stand further back, because hard shots hit them.
• Jake joins boxing «to get hard, innit», expecting the big lads to batter him.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «batter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.