What's the difference between batter and hack?

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.

Hack


Definition:

  • (n.) A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
  • (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying.
  • (v. t.) To cut irregulary, without skill or definite purpose; to notch; to mangle by repeated strokes of a cutting instrument; as, to hack a post.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To mangle in speaking.
  • (v. i.) To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.
  • (n.) A notch; a cut.
  • (n.) An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.
  • (n.) A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
  • (n.) A kick on the shins.
  • (n.) A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunting and carriage horses.
  • (n.) A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
  • (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
  • (n.) A procuress.
  • (a.) Hackneyed; hired; mercenary.
  • (v. t.) To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
  • (v. t.) To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
  • (v. i.) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
  • (v. i.) To live the life of a drudge or hack.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
  • (2) Ed Balls, the shadow home secretary, today called on the head of the Metropolitan police to reopen the investigation into phone hacking by the News of the World.
  • (3) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
  • (4) Weir soon has to hack away a cross from Bodmer which would otherwise have found Govou in the box.
  • (5) Where Brooks was concerned on the hacking charge, there was very little extra evidence to add to that platform of inference.
  • (6) The US started down this course during the Sony hack last year, and in this case, transparency might be the best deterrent in the future – which, by the way, is something both Snowden and the Snowden-hating national security blog Lawfare argued on Monday.
  • (7) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (8) The remarks are the most direct official response on the issue, although the government has previously said that it "resolutely opposes" hacking and criticised "baseless" claims.
  • (9) Besides tolerating commercial espionage via hacking, it also allows the hosting of thousands of sites that help spammers rip people off around the world.
  • (10) January 2011 • Ian Edmondson, the News of the World's assistant editor (news), is suspended following a "serious allegation" relating to phone hacking during Andy Coulson's editorship of the paper.
  • (11) Jowell said she was first told that her phone had been hacked "on 28 or 29 occasions" by the police in May 2006.
  • (12) The two men ran Rigby down in a car before hacking him to death in the street near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London .
  • (13) The promotion would come as News Corp continues to face legal investigations into the phone-hacking scandal on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (14) OPM hack: China blamed for massive breach at US federal agency Read more The full scale of the information the attackers accessed remains unknown but could include highly sensitive data such as medical records, employment files and financial details, as well as information on security clearances and more.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mark Karpeles, president of Mt Gox bitcoin exchange, bows his head during a press conference in Tokyo after a $400m hack.
  • (16) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
  • (17) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
  • (18) That police sources were making such claims was confirmed by Taylor's solicitor, who told MPs that a named police sergeant had told him that 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked into.
  • (19) He said Coulson quite clearly knew hacking was a breach of the Press Complaints Commission code and there might be privacy issues, but never knew it was a crime.
  • (20) The regulator said it did not find the evidence provided a basis to conclude Rupert Murdoch had acted in a way that was inappropriate in relation to phone hacking, concealment or corruption by employees.