(v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.
(v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
(v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
(v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
(v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
(v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
(v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
(v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
(v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
(v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Study 1, the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB) was administered to samples of patients meeting Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) for schizodepressive disorder, major depressive disorder or schizophrenia, and to a normal control group.
(2) Individual tests and batteries of tests should be standardized, employ positive controls, generate results capable of quantitative analyses that may make dichotomous classification as "positive" and "negative" obsolete, be interpreted in light of mechanisms of action, and be cost-effective on a grand scale.
(3) If battery and EV prices fall more rapidly over the period, and the price of oil increases more rapidly, replacing the fleet with EVs could be cost-neutral.
(4) The Carcinogenicity Prediction and Battery Selection procedure was developed to address two problems: (1) the identification of highly predictive, yet cost-effective, batteries of short-term tests and (2) the objective prediction of the potential carcinogenicity of chemicals based upon the results of short-term tests even when a mixture of positive and negative results is obtained.
(5) • Regulations requiring manufacturers of electrical goods and batteries to take financial responsibility for their safe disposal will be liberalised or improved.
(6) The pullets were housed in battery brooder pens with raised wire floors.
(7) We evaluated nine ambulatory insulin infusion pumps from seven manufacturers, basing our ratings primarily on human factors--size, weight, battery type, and adequate reservoir capacity (i.e., 48 hr insulin supply).
(8) In two cases, repositioning of the batteries was necessary because of local muscle stimulation.
(9) A pure Domal magnesium anode was utilized with this cathode, which seemed to be a good compromise between to battery's voltage, its lifetime, and its lack of toxicity to body tissues.
(10) This question was part of a multiple battery of questions concerning the medical, social, environmental and behavioural background of the child.
(11) One component of the test battery was a simple test described by Albert in which patients cross out lines ruled in a standard fashion on a sheet of paper; this was easy to administer and related closely to neglect diagnosed by the test battery as a whole.
(12) We report the results of a protocol for choosing candidates for temporal lobectomy using a standard battery of objective tests without intracranial electrodes.
(13) One hundred children referred for evaluation of attention and learning problems were administered a battery of tests including two vigilance tasks, other laboratory measures of inattention and impulsivity, and parent and teacher ratings.
(14) Citing figures that predicted already falling costs of renewables and battery storage would halve again in the next five years, Shorten predicts “consumers not governments” would drive the energy change.
(15) Five serological methods of diagnosing African horse sickness were evaluated, using a battery of serum samples from experimental horses vaccinated and challenged with each serotype of African horse sickness virus (AHSV1 through AHSV9): agar gel immunodiffusion (AGID), indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA), complement fixation (CF), virus neutralization (VN), and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
(16) Twenty-five male stroke patients were assessed with the use of a battery of perceptual tests (Gross Visual Skills [Baum, 1981].
(17) The protocol was devised by first evaluating a range of kits in London using a battery of African and non-African sera and then field testing 1455 sera in Malaŵi, which included 184 sera from leprosy patients and 60 sera from syphilis patients to check for cross-reactivity.
(18) Recorded 2-hour clinical interview plus a battery of standardized as well as specially designed psychological tests were administered to 271 Ss.
(19) In spite of the available data on the mean life-expectancy of the various batteries, the individual time of depletion cannot be predicted with accuracy.
(20) The death of your battery is now one of the factors that will push you to upgrade.” As Joanna Stern put it in her review of the iPhone 6s in the Wall Street Journal: “The No 1 thing people want in a smartphone is better battery life.
Bombardier
Definition:
(n.) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
(n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(2) The move reduces the chances of a repeat of the Bombardier row, where the company's Derby factory missed out to a German rival for a £1.4bn government contract.
(3) At a press conference Bombardier said an alert had gone off for one of the subsystems during the flight, without providing details.
(4) This investment reflects our commitment, and that of train operators, to put passengers at the heart of everything we do, and will improve journeys and target congestion.” Richard Hunter, Bombardier’s UK managing director, said: “We are thrilled to have won this important contract.
(5) He added in the letter that Bombardier had "significant opportunities" to win more train manufacturing dealsas the government had maintained funding for upgrades to the rail network and the London Underground.
(6) War Debts (extracts) by Lance Bombardier Stephen North You wonder how they miss you to be honest, throwing stuff over the walls.
(7) A day before the stretched Dreamliner flight, Bombardier successfully flew its CSeries jetliner, kicking off a renewed effort to sell the all-new narrow-body plane amid questions about its development cost.
(8) "It flew very well," said Bombardier chief test pilot Chuck Ellis.
(9) Under European Union rules member states are forbidden from showing domestic bias in selecting the winners of government-funded contracts, which exposed the UK government to sharp criticism when the £1.4bn contract for carriages on the London Thameslink route went to Siemens of Germany rather than Bombardier, whose Derby factory is the UK's last remaining train manufacturing plant.
(10) It had used Siemens’ trains for the franchise since privatisation and had placed an order for more of its Desiro trains, in what appeared to be another defeat for Bombardier in a long-running battle with the German industrial group.
(11) However, First announced on winning the franchise that it would return those trains after two years for a new fleet, which has now been ordered from Bombardier.
(12) Captain Johnny Mercer, Fire Support Team Commander D Battery, 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, said: "Lance Bombardier Mark Chandler was in my eyes the perfect soldier.
(13) The picture is not all rosy: the boss of train manufacturer Bombardier reiterated in Berlin that the future of its Derby plant, and 1,600 jobs, could not be guaranteed without new orders.
(14) He lobbied Bombardier not to quit Britain after losing a contract to build new railway rolling stock to Germany's Siemens.
(15) The train had a sleek silver and gold exterior, but the inside was unnervingly familiar: the Electrostar carriages, built by Bombardier Transportation in Derby, are also used by various British operators.
(16) The defensive spray of the bombardier beetle Stenaptinus insignis is ejected in quick pulses (at about 500 pulses per second) rather than as a continuous stream.
(17) He served as a wing bombardier with the rank of lieutenant in the 12th Air Force, and flew 60 combat missions from Corsica.
(18) Its commander was Tibbets, the group bombardier was Ferebee and the unit's function – although only Tibbets then knew it – was to deliver the A-bomb.
(19) Prior to joining Pearson, she worked at chemicals group ICI and engineering firm Bombardier.
(20) A RAAF P3 Orion departed around 9.15am and is now in the search area.A second RAAF P3 Orion departed around 11.15am and an ultra long range Bombardier Global Express jet departed around 11.30am.