What's the difference between bather and batter?

Bather


Definition:

  • (n.) One who bathes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of nine affected bathers, five showed inflammation of Montgomery's follicles of the breast.
  • (2) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (3) The sauna evokes memories of childhood development, awakening feelings of maternal warmth and paternal power in the bather.
  • (4) Random samples of the weekly entry of bathers to a swimming pool were examined for tinea pedis and verruca before and at intervals after the supply of individual sachets of foot powder to all bathers.Over three and a half years the overall incidence of tinea pedis decreased from 8.5% to 2.1%, and in adult males it decreased from 21.5% to 6.9%.
  • (5) 'Hermless, hermless, there's never nae bather fae me, I go to the library, I tak oot a book, and then I go hame for meh tea.'"
  • (6) A documentary film on Denmark that is shown to immigrants as part of the test for entry should include topless bathers, said Peter Skaarup, the party's foreign affairs spokesman.
  • (7) It is concluded that sauna bathing involves dangers to the bather's health, which may appear suddenly, without prodromal warning signs.
  • (8) A 10% random sample of all bathers at a public swimming bath were examined for tinea pedis and verruca.The overall incidence of tinea pedis was 8.5% and of verruca 4.8%.
  • (9) They waved and shouted at the watching journalists as they passed a little collection of brightly coloured beach tents, used by bathers in peacetime.
  • (10) Exposure to sauna heat during sauna bathing raises the skin temperature of the bather near the hot pain perception threshold and enhances sympathetic activity.
  • (11) Lifeguards patrol the beach in the summer and surfers are asked not to come within 100 metres of the tide line, to allow bathers a good stretch of safe water.
  • (12) But this serene pool allows bathers to enjoy the marine violence without having to interact too much with it.
  • (13) Once out of the austere sauna, bathers have a shower and sit outside on a little brick wall on the side of the pavement to cool down, drinking and eating.
  • (14) Only 14 cathers were bitten (through treading on the sea-snake; no bathers were bitten while swimming).
  • (15) The bathers should be able to vary the humidity to their liking by casting water on the stones heated in or on the sauna oven.
  • (16) Great white sharks could be regular visitors to the coast by the 2080s, where they could find more bathers enjoying the Mediterranean climate.
  • (17) Instead there is just one early Bathers composition by him.
  • (18) Five thousand people were involved in the riot last December on Cronulla beach, which started as a protest to “reclaim the beach” from groups of mainly Lebanese youths who had reportedly intimidated young Australian women bathers and assaulted two volunteer life savers.
  • (19) The levels of Escherichia coli at a number of beaches was observed to be influenced by tide, and for staphylococci, by bather numbers.
  • (20) Additional attention should be directed to the bacteriology of the water surface film, which presents a more direct hazard to bathers.

Batter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
  • (v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
  • (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
  • (v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
  • (v. t.) Paste of clay or loam.
  • (v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
  • (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
  • (v. i.) To slope gently backward.
  • (n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman.

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.

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