Dictionary Entry
battery
battery is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of battering or beating. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
The act of battering or beating.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
- 4transitive verb
Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6transitive verb
A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
- 7transitive verb
An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
- 8transitive verb
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.
- 9transitive verb
A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
- 10transitive verb
The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
- 11transitive verb
The pitcher and catcher together.
- 12noun
an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
- 13noun
the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
"they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"
"the shelling went on for hours without pausing"
Synonyms
- 14noun
a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- 15noun
a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- 16noun
a collection of related things intended for use together
"took a battery of achievement tests"
- 17noun
a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- 18noun
group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
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