battery
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
Noun 4 meanings
A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
“alkaline battery”
The energy stored in such a device.
“Her phone did not have enough battery for another phone call.”
The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
“Holonym: assault and battery”
A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
“Outside the ancient fort, you can still see worn areas in the stone where the batteries were once placed.”
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“beat”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie. By surface analysis, batter + -y.
BATTERY at a glance
BATTERY has 7 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + T 1 + T 1 + E 1 + R 1 + Y 4) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,815 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with battery
All rhymesOne letter away
- BATTERS9
- BUTTERY12
- CATTERY12
- RATTERY10
- BATTERO9
- MATTERY12
- NATTERY10
- TATTERY10
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