(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.
Outside
Definition:
(n.) The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior.
(n.) The part or space which lies without an inclosure; the outer side, as of a door, walk, or boundary.
(n.) The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.; the utmost; as, it may last a week at the outside.
(n.) One who, or that which, is without; hence, an outside passenger, as distinguished from one who is inside. See Inside, n. 3.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the outside; external; exterior; superficial.
(a.) Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc.; as, an outside estimate.
(adv.) or prep. On or to the outside (of); without; on the exterior; as, to ride outside the coach; he stayed outside.
Example Sentences:
(1) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(2) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(3) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(4) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(5) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(6) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(7) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
(8) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
(9) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(10) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(11) In this paper we report sixteen new cases from Europe and North America, suggesting that Kabuki make-up syndrome may be more common outside of Japan than supposed.
(12) The results suggest that AH5183 does not bind to the ACh transporter recognition site on the outside of the vesicle membrane, and thus it might inhibit allosterically.
(13) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(14) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
(15) Interfering macromolecular serum components were left outside the capsule during the centrifugation or forced dialysis.
(16) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
(17) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(18) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
(19) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(20) We conclude that the pacemaker cells are necessary for rhythmic contractile activity and that cells outside this region do not contract spontaneously.