Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BATTER

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Definitions of BATTER

1. To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.
2. A paste of clay or loam.
3. An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
4. (cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).
5. (figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.
6. (UK, slang, usually in the passive) To intoxicate.
7. (metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
8. (UK, obsolete) To coat in a paste-like substance; to fasten with a paste-like glue.
9. (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.
10. (countable, slang) A binge; a heavy drinking session.
11. (countable, printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
12. (architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
13. (baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
14. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
15. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
16. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

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Examples of Using BATTER in a Sentence

• A batter is credited with a plate appearance regardless of what happens during their turn at bat, but a batter is charged with an at bat only if that plate appearance does not have one of the results enumerated below.
• occurs in baseball when a batter receives four pitches during a plate appearance that the umpire calls balls, and is in turn awarded first base without the possibility of being called out.
• Reaching base by other means (such as a base on balls) or advancing further after the hit (such as when a subsequent batter gets a hit) does not increase the player's total bases.
• In baseball, hit by pitch (HBP) is an event in which a batter or his clothing or equipment (other than his bat) is struck directly by a pitch from the pitcher; the batter is called a hit batsman (HB).
• In baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches or passes first base after hitting the ball into fair territory with neither the benefit of an error nor a fielder's choice.
• Generally defined as "how frequently a batter reaches base per plate appearance", OBP does not credit the batter for reaching base on fielding errors, fielder's choice, uncaught third strikes, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference.
• They are so named because the batter allows a teammate to score a run, while "sacrificing" his or her ability to do so.
• The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat.
• In baseball, a home run, homerun or homer (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.
• For a right-handed batter, the ball breaks towards them from the leg side, hence the name 'leg break'.
• A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler; a bowler who is also a competent batter is known as an all-rounder.
• In baseball, a catcher is charged with a passed ball when he fails to hold or control a legally pitched ball that, with ordinary effort, should have been maintained under his control, and, as a result of this loss of control, the batter or a runner on base advances.
• Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the striking batter, to limit the number of runs that the striker scores and/or to get a batter out by either catching a hit ball before it bounces, or by running out either batter before they can complete their current run.
• The batter bunts the ball, expecting to be thrown out at first base, but providing the runner on third base an opportunity to score.
• He refuses to throw his fast balls anymore, saying that he feels empathy with the batter and does not want to ruin the batter's career by striking him out, and quits baseball to become a social worker.
• A light batter is made of iced water, eggs, pastry or baking powder is added to make the batter light.
• is a Japanese teppanyaki, savory pancake dish consisting of wheat flour batter and other ingredients (mixed, or as toppings) cooked on a teppan (flat griddle).
• When it reacts with acid or is heated, carbon dioxide is released, which causes expansion of the batter and forms the characteristic texture and grain in cakes, quick breads, soda bread, and other baked and fried foods.
• In baseball, a perfect game is a game in which one or more pitchers complete a minimum of nine innings with no batter from the opposing team reaching base.
• It works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into a batter or dough through an acid–base reaction, causing bubbles in the wet mixture to expand and thus leavening the mixture.
• When a dough or batter is mixed, the starch in the flour and the water in the dough form a matrix (often supported further by proteins like gluten or polysaccharides, such as pentosans or xanthan gum).
• A waffle is a dish made from leavened batter or dough that is cooked between two plates that are patterned to give a characteristic size, shape, and surface impression.
• A pancake, also known as hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack, is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter that may contain eggs, milk, and butter, and then cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or frying pan.
• He had the highest single-season batting average by a right-handed batter in the post-war era, batting.
• The dumpling is made of an egg-rich batter and octopus dipped into dashi (a thin fish broth) before eating.

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