What's the difference between batter and shake?

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.

Shake


Definition:

  • () obs. p. p. of Shake.
  • (v.) To cause to move with quick or violent vibrations; to move rapidly one way and the other; to make to tremble or shiver; to agitate.
  • (v.) Fig.: To move from firmness; to weaken the stability of; to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of.
  • (v.) To give a tremulous tone to; to trill; as, to shake a note in music.
  • (v.) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion; to rid one's self of; -- generally with an adverb, as off, out, etc.; as, to shake fruit down from a tree.
  • (v. i.) To be agitated with a waving or vibratory motion; to tremble; to shiver; to quake; to totter.
  • (n.) The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other; a trembling, quaking, or shivering; agitation.
  • (n.) A fissure or crack in timber, caused by its being dried too suddenly.
  • (n.) A fissure in rock or earth.
  • (n.) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.
  • (n.) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • (n.) A shook of staves and headings.
  • (n.) The redshank; -- so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (2) As part of the shake-up, the rule that says only half can be saved in cash is being abolished.
  • (3) Almost a year on, I am still shaking my head in disbelief.
  • (4) In the modified test, shake cultures in Brewer's fluid thioglycolate medium with 0.3% agar added are observed for growth in the anaerobic zone of the tubes.
  • (5) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
  • (6) When Fox woke up one morning in 1990 and noticed his little finger shaking, he thought it was a side effect of a hangover.
  • (7) In order to assess this inter-relationship isolated rat glomeruli were incubated with and without shaking.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
  • (9) In the spinalized preparation, steady-state and nonsteady-state responses have an equal likelihood of emerging from the initial cycles of a paw-shake response, suggesting that regular coupling of joint oscillations is not planned by pattern-generating networks within lumbosacral segments.
  • (10) Systemic administration of drugs that augment 5-HT2 activity generally induces 'wet dog' shaking (WDS) in rats.
  • (11) The yes camp should have made no bones about a call to the nation to shake things up, by bringing him down a peg or two.
  • (12) The after-discharge induced by subconvulsant electrical stimulations, is followed by a behavioral phenomenon, named Wet Dog Shakes (WDS).
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Taylor Swift: Shake It Off Taylor Swift – 1989 Live web streams!
  • (14) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
  • (15) The relationship between ultrasonographic detection of fetal vernix and visual assessment of amniotic fluid (AF) and fetal pulmonary maturity evaluated by the "shake test" was studied in 73 high-risk patients undergoing amniocentesis for obstetrical indications.
  • (16) In light of how often during his career he has been forced to take on more defensive roles Mascherano shakes his head and insists that he is not shifting from the No5.
  • (17) I couldn't shake the harsh words from my head and worried about if, or when, they would spill over into real life.
  • (18) She slept in the hall, covered in a duvet, and by the time her cleaner arrived the next day, she was sweating, vomiting repeatedly and shaking.
  • (19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
  • (20) As the authors failed to obtain a contiuous cell line from a single cell colony the method of "shaking" was applied.