(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.
Buggery
Definition:
(n.) Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why not just bite the bullet and say, ‘OK, let’s do a completely different way of funding’ rather than having a switch forced on them by circumstances or legislation.” Armando Iannucci interview: 'We didn't want Alpha Papa to be the equivalent of Holiday on the Buses' Read more Iannucci’s idea, outlined in his Bafta lecture, was for the BBC to aggressively market itself with paid-for subscription abroad – “prostitute itself to blue buggery” – which would help subsidise subscription services in the UK at a lower level than the current licence fee.
(2) For instance, the always controversial Ken Livingstone used one of his first speeches as an MP in 1987 to name two Northern Ireland civil servants allegedly involved in "the buggery of young children at the Kincora boys' home", part of an suspected paedophile ring in Ulster.
(3) "The BBC brand is up there with Apple and Google, I want it to go abroad and prostitute itself to blue buggery in how it sells and makes money from its content."
(4) But commercially, I want us all, especially the BBC, with a brand recognition up there with Apple and Google, to go abroad and prostitute itself to blue-buggery if need be in how it sells and makes money from its content, so that money can come back to production in the UK.
(5) 18 girls and 17 boys, aged 14 months to 8 years, with a history and physical signs of buggery were selected from a large series of sexually abused children seen by two paediatricians in Leeds, child population 146 000, over 8 months.
(6) Faeces were only identified on a pair of swabs from a dead homosexual showing that proof of buggery by this means is rare.
(7) Knackered as buggery,” she says with typical frankness.
(8) He brandished said pipe, saying it was possible to blow the place "to buggery".
(9) The director of public prosecutions said in a statement last year that her lawyers had assessed the allegations against Janner, and in 22 allegations of indecent assault and buggery between 1969 and 1988 the evidential test was passed.
(10) Paweł Morski (@Pawelmorski) @ fgoria @ matinastevis bonds will be bid to buggery tomorrow.
(11) Bennell was serving nine years after admitting 23 specimen charges of sexual offences, including buggery, against six boys aged nine to 15.
(12) Until 1981 gay men were convicted and even jailed for offences including buggery and loitering for homosexual purposes, which created barriers to work, volunteering and travel.
(13) The act sweeps away the offences of gross indecency, buggery and soliciting by men, which is sometimes called "cottaging" or "cruising".
(14) Buggery in young children, including infants and toddlers, is a serious, common, and under-reported type of child abuse.
(15) Whenever countries criminalise homosexuality, the crime in question, more often than not, is buggery.
(16) Furious letters are penned to supporters of gay rights, denouncing them for trying to be kind but “encouraging buggery”.
(17) Jurors at Maidstone crown court, in Kent, took less than three hours of deliberation to find him not guilty of six charges of indecent assault and two charges of buggery between January 1996 and April 2000.
(18) As was the sight of various backbenchers indulging in their rather obsessive pastime: discussing buggery.
(19) Delivering judgment in Blantyre today, magistrate Nyakwawa Usiwa-Usiwa found the couple guilty of buggery – which he described as "against the order of nature".
(20) | Daniel Taylor Read more Bennell was jailed for two years in May 2015 for another historic offence, involving a 12-year-old boy on a football course in Macclesfield, and has also served a four-year sentence in Florida after the buggery and indecent assault of a 13-year-old British boy on a football tour.