What's the difference between banterer and batterer?
Banterer
Definition:
(n.) One who banters or rallies.
Example Sentences:
(1) It shows that we still have some way to go to end bigoted banter.” The exchange was also met with disdain on Twitter.
(2) The LMA exacerbated the issue on Thursday night with a statement of its own, in which Mackay apologised for sending texts that “were disrespectful to other cultures” but he “was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter”.
(3) The man who cannot hold his own in repartee will even learn other men's jokes off by heart, so that he can fill a void in the general banter.
(4) It added: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend during some friendly text message banter."
(5) From time to time I'd bump into Amy she had good banter so we could chat a bit and have a laugh, she was a character but that world was riddled with half-cut, doped-up chancers, I was one of them, even in early recovery I was kept afloat only by clinging to the bodies of strangers so Winehouse, but for her gentle quirks didn't especially register.
(6) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
(7) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
(8) Jack soon suspected that the cynical comments emanating from behind him belonged to a Manchester City supporter but, typically, enjoyed the banter.
(9) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
(10) If the news that Wendi Deng had joined her husband Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and promptly engaged in flirtatious banter with the likes of Ricky Gervais seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.
(11) Gordon Brown spoke fluently and even managed some banter with cabinet colleagues.
(12) Naseer insisted the emails consisted only of harmless banter about looking for a potential bride after going to England to take computer science classes.
(13) But instead of condemning such behaviour as sexist, the Bar Council chairman described it as “banter”.
(14) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(15) I tried to address it and have a bit of bunny-based banter with him: "Why are you wearing a full rabbit costume?"
(16) These recordings will include an approximation of the original Smile album, plus outtakes and studio banter.
(17) "I've met all my colleagues this week so I've received a little bit of banter from them which has been good natured.
(18) We survived for six hours with only scraps of quality banter, three cans of Rockstar and a lukewarm quarter chicken that my mate Karl smuggled in his Superdry man bag.
(19) He added that the banter on Top Gear was an "imperfect science" that would "invariably upset some viewers at some point".
(20) Is banter the act of whispering "IDon'tFancyYouIDon'tFancyYou" with your eyes?
Batterer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, batters.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
(3) Forty-nine women who attended a surgical emergency department after being battered are the subjects of this prospective study.
(4) Autopsy findings were consistent with a severely chronically battered child.
(5) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(6) Fatally "battered" children, the victims of multiple, metasynchronous traumata, represent a significant fraction (22%) of the overall pedicide population and constitute a segment of the victims with a potential for being saved by intervention.
(7) Finally, what do you do if you are the director of an Australian ad agency and you want to sell your old, battered 1999 hatchback?
(8) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
(9) The announcements included a message from the Chief of Police regarding the seriousness of battering, and the referral numbers.
(10) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
(11) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
(12) Cards pile on the runs, and here comes Hurdle to get Burnett, about three batters too late.
(13) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
(14) As described above, the nature of this series with Chicago means the Kings will be battered and probably somewhat exhausted.
(15) Among the 1,142 girls and boys aged 9 to 11 years, 8.2% were seriously battered, 58% were mildly battered and 33.8% were unbattered during the past year.
(16) Assessment and interventions for sexual abuse are necessary in all women's health settings, especially if a woman is battered.
(17) Child abuse or battered child syndrome is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood in the United States and is not uncommon in our country.
(18) 32 min: Tiki-taka has taken a real battering in recent weeks.
(19) Chelsea, racism and the Premier League’s role | Letters Read more Mighty Manchester United had just been humbled by lowly Leicester City, battered 5-3.
(20) Recidivism is an associated feature.The risk of battering possibly diminishes with time.