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Meaning 1
A park in Manhattan, New York City.
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A park in Manhattan, New York City.
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noun
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
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Usage: countable
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
Such a device that has multiple cells.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: strictly
Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
The energy stored in such a device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, metonymically, uncountable
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noun
The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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Broader terms: violence
noun
A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
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Usage: countable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.
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Usage: archaic, countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
An array of similar things.
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noun
A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The catcher and the pitcher together
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: board-games, chess, games
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noun
A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.
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Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: assault and battery
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Broader terms: assault
Narrower terms: resisting arrest
noun
the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling
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Broader terms: fire, firing
noun
a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: electric battery
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: electrical device
Narrower terms: A battery, B battery, C battery, voltaic battery, galvanic battery, voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile
noun
a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: stamp battery
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Broader terms: stamp mill, stamping mill
noun
a collection of related things intended for use together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
noun
a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
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Broader terms: team, squad
noun
group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: artillery, artillery unit
History
Named for a coastal artillery battery that once stood there.
Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“beat”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y. The electrical sense was coined by American polymath Benjamin Franklin by analogy with a military battery that his series of Leyden jars resembled.
Across languages
307 source translations are retained for this English entry.