Definition of battery in English:

battery

nounPlural batteries ˈbat(ə)ri

1A container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power.
电池（组）
a camera battery
as modifier battery power
Example sentencesExamples
- The batteries that power the electric motor cost thousands.
- An electromagnet starts with a battery (or some other source of power) and a wire.
- If there is no electrical hookup, it can use the energy from a car battery, solar cell, or bicycle generator.
- The electricity that we get from power outlets and batteries can power all different kinds of devices.
- You can see why there is so much excitement around fuel cells right now - fuel cells solve the battery problem.
- While the new electrodes have not yet been tested in fuel cells or batteries, Liu expects they will significantly boost energy output.
- These engines also could provide electrical power instead of relying on solar cells or batteries.
- Some analysts foresee fuel cells replacing batteries in consumer electronics and other applications before long.
- Hidden within cell phones, laptops, and digital cameras, lithium-ion batteries increasingly power the world.
- However, the short and unpredictable life spans of existing chemical batteries means that new power supply solutions are needed.
- The product is advertised to operate using static electricity only and requiring no batteries or other power sources.
- Clocks go faster or slower over time, batteries and power sources go dead, or important time changes, such as daylight saving, can be forgotten.
- The cells in a car battery generate electricity with a chemical reaction between a lead plate and a lead dioxide plate that are bathed in acid.
- Standard batteries can power digital cellphones for several hours of transmission or days of standby operation.
- If there's no electricity, how do you get the energy to power the batteries for the cameras?
- At low speeds, the car uses only the electric motor powered by batteries.
- The redox reaction in the battery is the source of the electrical energy; batteries are voltaic cells.
- A quartz watch powered by a battery is constantly powered and tells accurate time all the time and do not need time adjustment.
- Compared to batteries, fuel cells will be smaller, much lighter and instantly rechargeable.
- For short missions, power can be provided by batteries or fuel cells, which produce power from chemical energy.
Synonyms
cell, accumulator, power unit
2A fortified emplacement for heavy guns.
炮台
anti-aircraft missile batteries
a mobile battery of 105 mm guns
Example sentencesExamples
- Whenever we saw an anti-aircraft battery or munitions dump, we took it out.
- Over a quarter served in anti-aircraft batteries where they came under fire and operated searchlights and targeting instruments.
- Mrs Reston was one of the last to leave, and carried her son across the battery, under heavy bombardment, to the waiting boat.
- At five o'clock, a convoy even brought a heavy missile battery.
- The first fortification was the emplacement of anti-aircraft batteries and machine-guns for defense of the skies.
- The shore batteries took a heavy toll of the landing craft, particularly at Westkapelle, and supporting armour bogged down in the soft clay.
- The missile batteries had ceased firing as the shorter range made them less effective.
- In this war, the Patriot missile batteries were used in a really innovative way.
- The US coastguard imposed a three-mile boat exclusion zone around the island and Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries were installed on beaches.
- The Italian army has installed anti-aircraft missile batteries around Rome, and Nato is sending a surveillance plane to overfly the city.
- To this day, a casual walk along the Normandy coast reveals scores of entrenched batteries and nearly monumental emplacements of concrete.
- Private Bergot is not in the trenches like his higher-ranking officers, and he is not manning an anti-aircraft battery or a cannon.
- We will be assisted by heavy artillery-grade missile batteries that launch from further inside the complex.
- They began to take out various Patriot missile batteries and various boats patrolling up and down the river.
- I gritted my teeth and swallowed hard, my thoughts briefly turning to the heavy missile batteries and the people who crewed them.
- My first command was an antiaircraft battery in the Washington-Baltimore defense perimeter.
- To frustrate airborne landings, obstacles were set up, areas flooded and a nightmare of antiaircraft batteries were ready.
- These new air defense units are a composite of Patriot, Avenger, and Stinger Missile batteries.
- Right around me there are Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries.
- The lights on the side were on, and it seemed its radar dishes were rotating, plus several of the unmanned turrets and missile batteries on the side were armed.
1. 2.1 An artillery subunit of guns, men, and vehicles.
  炮兵连
  Example sentencesExamples
  The artillery batteries ' duties quickly changed to extending, improving and maintaining a brigade-sized defensive perimeter.
  The disappearance of the classical front line required that artillery batteries fight as infantry in the defense of their guns.
  Regiments would have an organic six-gun artillery battery and a reconnaissance troop.
  It was not uncommon for a brigade to have a cavalry troop or artillery battery as part of its organic makeup.
  The fire support battalion will consolidate the two mortar platoons of the original battalions into batteries.
  This consisted of 10 regular and 18 irregular regiments of cavalry, 74 regiments of infantry, and 22 artillery batteries.
  Wouldn't an artillery battery or a couple of guns have required troops to defend it?
  I also compare between women who serve in an artillery battery and women who serve in an infantry company.
  There are no heavy battalions or massed batteries in this picture.
  Anti-aircraft fire required tables that were far more detailed than those used by field artillery batteries.
  Ocean carries an artillery battery and can be used to supply the paratroopers, who are at present lightly armed, with more weapons.
  However, the Panzer Regiment destroyed a motorized column and an artillery battery before the French could withdraw.
  Even in engaging artillery batteries, the aim was primarily to wipe out the crews.
  Meanwhile the enemy had with astonishing rapidity brought a number of powerful batteries of artillery into position behind the Marre ridge, on the western bank of the river.
  The number of rapidly deployable mobile batteries used on each mission by the Army will depend on the operational requirements.
  The first unit that they saw was an artillery battery on the other side of an open field.
  The mortar platoon is the personal artillery battery for the battalion commander.
  Having readied their batteries for war, commanders now had to deal with preserving the peace.
  The task force later lost the howitzer battery, separate infantry platoon, and engineer platoon.
  Numerically, each of its three cavalry squadrons has the equivalent of a tank battalion, a mechanized battalion, and an artillery battery.
  Synonyms
  gun emplacement, artillery unit
  (batteries) artillery, cannonry, ordnance, heavy weapons, heavy weaponry, guns, cannons
3A set of similar units of equipment, typically when connected together.
（尤指连在一起的）一套设备
a battery of equipment to monitor blood pressure
Example sentencesExamples
- There is also a battery of powerful surveillance and monitoring equipment located inside and on the perimeter wall of Grosvenor Road barracks.
- Today you would need a battery of electronic equipment to measure the difference in noise and vibration between, say, a Focus and a Mondeo.
- Rolling to his right, he took cover behind a battery of computer equipment.
Synonyms
array, set, bank, group, row, line, line-up, raft, collection, assortment
1. 3.1 An extensive series, sequence, or range of things.
  一套，一组；一系列；一批
  children are given a battery of tests
  对孩子们进行了一组测试。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Comprehensive batteries of tests have been developed to provide quantitative measures of fluency and comprehension and to assess a range of linguistic abilities.
  A battery of films is lined up for release next week.
  A battery of psychological tests administered to me at this time tells the story of my mental status in a stark manner that clearly outlines my assets and deficits.
  They also completed several batteries of tests and scales to help gauge their quality of life, mental and physical functioning and mood.
  You may undergo a battery of diagnostic tests and try a variety of treatment methods.
  At six months, a single leg hop for distance was added to the battery of tests.
  Each gambler is subjected to a battery of psychological tests prior to the treatment program, and again at the completion of the program.
  Gladys was moved to the cardiology ward but again, despite a further battery of tests (including repeating earlier ones) no one could say for sure what caused her pain.
  The battery consisted of seven tests that were enumerated according to the construct they tapped.
  Our extensive battery of outcome measures, which focus mainly on physical benefits, is unlikely to capture the full extent of these apparent social benefits.
  If you're a student that's been asked to run a battery of qualitative organic tests, you should ask for a refund of your tuition.
  A battery of neuropsychological tests were also administered by IVR with a standard touch-tone telephone.
  No single lab test helps with the diagnosis; however, a battery of tests should be performed to rule out medical complications of starvation.
  In these experiments, test subjects with maladies ranging from severe brain trauma to bipolar disorder undergo a battery of visual tests.
  Atopy was assessed by skin prick tests with a battery of 10 common inhalant allergens.
  As a part of a concussion preventive program, they routinely do a battery of baseline psychological and brain function tests on all entrants.
  Each patient underwent the same battery of tests before surgery, at discharge, three months after surgery, and two years after surgery.
  Well, their total scores on the Wechsler battery of mental tests correlate at 0.69.
  Children completed a battery of neuropsychological tests in the areas of processing speed, vigilance, and inhibition.
  An important reason for including this test in our battery was that there is evidence to suggest that performance on this test is strongly related to reading comprehension.
  Synonyms
  series, sequence, range, set, cycle, chain, string, progression, succession
4British usually as modifier A series of small cages for the intensive rearing of farm animals, especially calves and poultry.
〈主英〉（饲养农场动物的）层架式鸡笼，牛舍
battery farming
battery hens
层架式鸡笼里的母鸡。
Example sentencesExamples
- Farming hundreds of thousands of fish in tiny cages makes battery hen operations look positively organic by comparison.
- If it's really about animal cruelty, why aren't we banning battery hens?
- But, if animal welfare is the aim, Parliament should be legislating on intensive animal farming methods and battery chickens raised in windowless warehouses.
- Egg-laying hens are confined to battery cages.
- Most birds reared for food are grown in battery farms, and so are kept indoors anyway.
- Despite this, battery cage egg production has increased over the last 50 years.
- These days it's all factory farms and abattoirs and battery chickens, but in the old days farming was much more personal and friendly.
- Here in Australia, approximately 10-million battery hens are caged for life.
- It is calling on politicians to support legislation to ban battery cages, which it says cause great suffering to hens.
- To teach our young people in a school like that, to be reared like battery hens, would be folly.
- Vegetarian, vegan, and animal-rights movements have prompted Sweden to become the first E.U. member to outlaw battery cages for hens.
- Many of today's farming techniques are not natural, regarding GM crops, battery hens and such, but many of us do not think of these as wrong.
- The European Commission recently announced an end to the cramped conditions suffered by hens housed in battery cages.
- Switzerland's elimination of battery cages increased the Swiss egg industry's profitability and its acceptability to consumers.
- With laying hens confined so closely in battery cages, the possibility of cross-contamination between animals must surely be very high.
- One answer to this objection is that most farmers have their hens securely locked away in battery cages with a floor surface the size of a piece of A4 paper so they are none too vulnerable to fox attack.
- Now thousands of battery farm birds in Scotland are set to escape the chop thanks to a rescue service being set up by an animal lover.
- The foundation has been protesting over the past 30 years against the selling of eggs from battery cages.
- Newer European battery cages with manure belts provide a system for daily clean out of manure.
- So nobody in Europe is now allowed to do that, and we also have legislation which is going to result in the phasing out of battery cages for laying hens.
5Law
mass noun The infliction of unlawful personal violence on another person, even where the contact does no physical harm.
〔律〕殴打。参见 ASSAULT AND BATTERY
any act which puts a person in immediate and reasonable fear of battery
See also assault and battery
count noun most batteries involve an assault
Example sentencesExamples
- The guy has previous convictions for kidnapping, battery and assault.
- Kantor has listed three of them in her complaint: assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- Now he awaits trial for first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery.
- That would be a criminal action, namely assault (rather than battery which includes physical contact).
- In most cases of battery or actual bodily harm the causal connection will be plain, but cases involving drugs have presented difficulties.
Synonyms
violence, assault, mugging
grievous bodily harm, GBH, actual bodily harm, ABH
beating, striking, thumping, thrashing, bashing
aggression
6the batteryBaseball
The pitcher and the catcher.
〔棒球〕投手和接手
Example sentencesExamples
- I was all excited to report on the fact Philadelphia started an all-Independent Baseball battery yesterday for its Grapefruit League game against Cleveland in Winter Haven, FL.
- The defensive baseball positions can be divided into three main categories: 1) the battery, 2) infielders, 3) outfielders.
- By "Clicking On" the pitcher's name you can see their battery mates for all of their starts as well as their shutouts.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French baterie, from battre 'to strike', from Latin battuere. The original sense was 'metal articles wrought by hammering', later 'a number of pieces of artillery used together', whence 'a number of Leyden jars connected up so as to discharge simultaneously' (mid 18th century), giving rise to sense 1.

The root of battery is Latin battuere ‘to strike, beat’, and originally referred to metal articles shaped with a hammer. The military soon adopted the term to mean a succession of heavy blows inflicted upon the walls of a fortress with artillery, and so it came to have the sense ‘a number of pieces of artillery combining in action’. It is this idea of combining to produce a result that is behind the use in electrical batteries. The original electrical battery was a series of Leyden jars, glass jars with layers of metal foil on the outside and inside, used to store electric charge. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) mentioned the device in a letter of 1748. Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) developed the later galvanic battery (named after the Italian physicist Luigi Galvani (1737–98), using chemical action to produce electric current, and described it in 1801. An electrical battery is a container with one or more cells, and this no doubt prompted the use of the word for a series of cages for laying hens.

Rhymes

cattery, chattery, flattery, tattery

battery¹

nounˈbædəriˈbadərē

1A container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power.
电池（组）
as modifier battery power
Example sentencesExamples
- If there's no electricity, how do you get the energy to power the batteries for the cameras?
- A quartz watch powered by a battery is constantly powered and tells accurate time all the time and do not need time adjustment.
- While the new electrodes have not yet been tested in fuel cells or batteries, Liu expects they will significantly boost energy output.
- The redox reaction in the battery is the source of the electrical energy; batteries are voltaic cells.
- For short missions, power can be provided by batteries or fuel cells, which produce power from chemical energy.
- The electricity that we get from power outlets and batteries can power all different kinds of devices.
- Hidden within cell phones, laptops, and digital cameras, lithium-ion batteries increasingly power the world.
- The batteries that power the electric motor cost thousands.
- At low speeds, the car uses only the electric motor powered by batteries.
- The cells in a car battery generate electricity with a chemical reaction between a lead plate and a lead dioxide plate that are bathed in acid.
- These engines also could provide electrical power instead of relying on solar cells or batteries.
- The product is advertised to operate using static electricity only and requiring no batteries or other power sources.
- Clocks go faster or slower over time, batteries and power sources go dead, or important time changes, such as daylight saving, can be forgotten.
- Compared to batteries, fuel cells will be smaller, much lighter and instantly rechargeable.
- Some analysts foresee fuel cells replacing batteries in consumer electronics and other applications before long.
- An electromagnet starts with a battery (or some other source of power) and a wire.
- Standard batteries can power digital cellphones for several hours of transmission or days of standby operation.
- If there is no electrical hookup, it can use the energy from a car battery, solar cell, or bicycle generator.
- However, the short and unpredictable life spans of existing chemical batteries means that new power supply solutions are needed.
- You can see why there is so much excitement around fuel cells right now - fuel cells solve the battery problem.
Synonyms
cell, accumulator, power unit
2A fortified emplacement for heavy guns.
炮台
Example sentencesExamples
- They began to take out various Patriot missile batteries and various boats patrolling up and down the river.
- At five o'clock, a convoy even brought a heavy missile battery.
- The first fortification was the emplacement of anti-aircraft batteries and machine-guns for defense of the skies.
- Over a quarter served in anti-aircraft batteries where they came under fire and operated searchlights and targeting instruments.
- I gritted my teeth and swallowed hard, my thoughts briefly turning to the heavy missile batteries and the people who crewed them.
- These new air defense units are a composite of Patriot, Avenger, and Stinger Missile batteries.
- The Italian army has installed anti-aircraft missile batteries around Rome, and Nato is sending a surveillance plane to overfly the city.
- Whenever we saw an anti-aircraft battery or munitions dump, we took it out.
- To frustrate airborne landings, obstacles were set up, areas flooded and a nightmare of antiaircraft batteries were ready.
- To this day, a casual walk along the Normandy coast reveals scores of entrenched batteries and nearly monumental emplacements of concrete.
- The US coastguard imposed a three-mile boat exclusion zone around the island and Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries were installed on beaches.
- Private Bergot is not in the trenches like his higher-ranking officers, and he is not manning an anti-aircraft battery or a cannon.
- My first command was an antiaircraft battery in the Washington-Baltimore defense perimeter.
- The shore batteries took a heavy toll of the landing craft, particularly at Westkapelle, and supporting armour bogged down in the soft clay.
- The lights on the side were on, and it seemed its radar dishes were rotating, plus several of the unmanned turrets and missile batteries on the side were armed.
- In this war, the Patriot missile batteries were used in a really innovative way.
- Right around me there are Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries.
- The missile batteries had ceased firing as the shorter range made them less effective.
- We will be assisted by heavy artillery-grade missile batteries that launch from further inside the complex.
- Mrs Reston was one of the last to leave, and carried her son across the battery, under heavy bombardment, to the waiting boat.
1. 2.1 An artillery subunit of guns, men, and vehicles.
  炮兵连
  Example sentencesExamples
  Regiments would have an organic six-gun artillery battery and a reconnaissance troop.
  It was not uncommon for a brigade to have a cavalry troop or artillery battery as part of its organic makeup.
  Numerically, each of its three cavalry squadrons has the equivalent of a tank battalion, a mechanized battalion, and an artillery battery.
  Having readied their batteries for war, commanders now had to deal with preserving the peace.
  Anti-aircraft fire required tables that were far more detailed than those used by field artillery batteries.
  The disappearance of the classical front line required that artillery batteries fight as infantry in the defense of their guns.
  The number of rapidly deployable mobile batteries used on each mission by the Army will depend on the operational requirements.
  Wouldn't an artillery battery or a couple of guns have required troops to defend it?
  The fire support battalion will consolidate the two mortar platoons of the original battalions into batteries.
  This consisted of 10 regular and 18 irregular regiments of cavalry, 74 regiments of infantry, and 22 artillery batteries.
  The task force later lost the howitzer battery, separate infantry platoon, and engineer platoon.
  The mortar platoon is the personal artillery battery for the battalion commander.
  However, the Panzer Regiment destroyed a motorized column and an artillery battery before the French could withdraw.
  The artillery batteries ' duties quickly changed to extending, improving and maintaining a brigade-sized defensive perimeter.
  Even in engaging artillery batteries, the aim was primarily to wipe out the crews.
  Ocean carries an artillery battery and can be used to supply the paratroopers, who are at present lightly armed, with more weapons.
  The first unit that they saw was an artillery battery on the other side of an open field.
  I also compare between women who serve in an artillery battery and women who serve in an infantry company.
  There are no heavy battalions or massed batteries in this picture.
  Meanwhile the enemy had with astonishing rapidity brought a number of powerful batteries of artillery into position behind the Marre ridge, on the western bank of the river.
  Synonyms
  gun emplacement, artillery unit
3A set of units of equipment, typically when connected together.
（尤指连在一起的）一套设备
a battery of equipment to monitor blood pressure
Example sentencesExamples
- There is also a battery of powerful surveillance and monitoring equipment located inside and on the perimeter wall of Grosvenor Road barracks.
- Rolling to his right, he took cover behind a battery of computer equipment.
- Today you would need a battery of electronic equipment to measure the difference in noise and vibration between, say, a Focus and a Mondeo.
Synonyms
array, set, bank, group, row, line, line-up, raft, collection, assortment
1. 3.1 An extensive series, sequence, or range of things.
  一套，一组；一系列；一批
  children given a battery of tests
  对孩子们进行了一组测试。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In these experiments, test subjects with maladies ranging from severe brain trauma to bipolar disorder undergo a battery of visual tests.
  A battery of neuropsychological tests were also administered by IVR with a standard touch-tone telephone.
  Our extensive battery of outcome measures, which focus mainly on physical benefits, is unlikely to capture the full extent of these apparent social benefits.
  An important reason for including this test in our battery was that there is evidence to suggest that performance on this test is strongly related to reading comprehension.
  Children completed a battery of neuropsychological tests in the areas of processing speed, vigilance, and inhibition.
  As a part of a concussion preventive program, they routinely do a battery of baseline psychological and brain function tests on all entrants.
  They also completed several batteries of tests and scales to help gauge their quality of life, mental and physical functioning and mood.
  Each patient underwent the same battery of tests before surgery, at discharge, three months after surgery, and two years after surgery.
  At six months, a single leg hop for distance was added to the battery of tests.
  You may undergo a battery of diagnostic tests and try a variety of treatment methods.
  Each gambler is subjected to a battery of psychological tests prior to the treatment program, and again at the completion of the program.
  A battery of psychological tests administered to me at this time tells the story of my mental status in a stark manner that clearly outlines my assets and deficits.
  Well, their total scores on the Wechsler battery of mental tests correlate at 0.69.
  A battery of films is lined up for release next week.
  Comprehensive batteries of tests have been developed to provide quantitative measures of fluency and comprehension and to assess a range of linguistic abilities.
  If you're a student that's been asked to run a battery of qualitative organic tests, you should ask for a refund of your tuition.
  The battery consisted of seven tests that were enumerated according to the construct they tapped.
  Atopy was assessed by skin prick tests with a battery of 10 common inhalant allergens.
  Gladys was moved to the cardiology ward but again, despite a further battery of tests (including repeating earlier ones) no one could say for sure what caused her pain.
  No single lab test helps with the diagnosis; however, a battery of tests should be performed to rule out medical complications of starvation.
  Synonyms
  series, sequence, range, set, cycle, chain, string, progression, succession
4Law
The crime or tort of unconsented physical contact with another person, even where the contact is not violent but merely menacing or offensive.
See also assault and battery
Example sentencesExamples
- In most cases of battery or actual bodily harm the causal connection will be plain, but cases involving drugs have presented difficulties.
- That would be a criminal action, namely assault (rather than battery which includes physical contact).
- Kantor has listed three of them in her complaint: assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- Now he awaits trial for first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery.
- The guy has previous convictions for kidnapping, battery and assault.
Synonyms
violence, assault, mugging
5the batteryBaseball
The pitcher and the catcher in a game, considered as a unit.
Example sentencesExamples
- I was all excited to report on the fact Philadelphia started an all-Independent Baseball battery yesterday for its Grapefruit League game against Cleveland in Winter Haven, FL.
- By "Clicking On" the pitcher's name you can see their battery mates for all of their starts as well as their shutouts.
- The defensive baseball positions can be divided into three main categories: 1) the battery, 2) infielders, 3) outfielders.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French baterie, from battre ‘to strike’, from Latin battuere. The original sense was ‘metal articles wrought by hammering’, later ‘a number of pieces of artillery used together’, whence ‘a number of Leyden jars connected up so as to discharge simultaneously’ (mid 18th century), giving rise to battery (sense 1).

Battery²

proper nounˈbædəriˈbadərē

the Battery

A historic area at the southern end of Manhattan Island in New York City.

词汇	battery
释义	Definition of battery in English: battery nounPlural batteries ˈbat(ə)ri 1A container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power. 电池（组） a camera battery as modifier battery power Example sentencesExamples The batteries that power the electric motor cost thousands. An electromagnet starts with a battery (or some other source of power) and a wire. If there is no electrical hookup, it can use the energy from a car battery, solar cell, or bicycle generator. The electricity that we get from power outlets and batteries can power all different kinds of devices. You can see why there is so much excitement around fuel cells right now - fuel cells solve the battery problem. While the new electrodes have not yet been tested in fuel cells or batteries, Liu expects they will significantly boost energy output. These engines also could provide electrical power instead of relying on solar cells or batteries. Some analysts foresee fuel cells replacing batteries in consumer electronics and other applications before long. Hidden within cell phones, laptops, and digital cameras, lithium-ion batteries increasingly power the world. However, the short and unpredictable life spans of existing chemical batteries means that new power supply solutions are needed. The product is advertised to operate using static electricity only and requiring no batteries or other power sources. Clocks go faster or slower over time, batteries and power sources go dead, or important time changes, such as daylight saving, can be forgotten. The cells in a car battery generate electricity with a chemical reaction between a lead plate and a lead dioxide plate that are bathed in acid. Standard batteries can power digital cellphones for several hours of transmission or days of standby operation. If there's no electricity, how do you get the energy to power the batteries for the cameras? At low speeds, the car uses only the electric motor powered by batteries. The redox reaction in the battery is the source of the electrical energy; batteries are voltaic cells. A quartz watch powered by a battery is constantly powered and tells accurate time all the time and do not need time adjustment. Compared to batteries, fuel cells will be smaller, much lighter and instantly rechargeable. For short missions, power can be provided by batteries or fuel cells, which produce power from chemical energy. Synonyms cell, accumulator, power unit 2A fortified emplacement for heavy guns. 炮台 anti-aircraft missile batteries a mobile battery of 105 mm guns Example sentencesExamples Whenever we saw an anti-aircraft battery or munitions dump, we took it out. Over a quarter served in anti-aircraft batteries where they came under fire and operated searchlights and targeting instruments. Mrs Reston was one of the last to leave, and carried her son across the battery, under heavy bombardment, to the waiting boat. At five o'clock, a convoy even brought a heavy missile battery. The first fortification was the emplacement of anti-aircraft batteries and machine-guns for defense of the skies. The shore batteries took a heavy toll of the landing craft, particularly at Westkapelle, and supporting armour bogged down in the soft clay. The missile batteries had ceased firing as the shorter range made them less effective. In this war, the Patriot missile batteries were used in a really innovative way. The US coastguard imposed a three-mile boat exclusion zone around the island and Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries were installed on beaches. The Italian army has installed anti-aircraft missile batteries around Rome, and Nato is sending a surveillance plane to overfly the city. To this day, a casual walk along the Normandy coast reveals scores of entrenched batteries and nearly monumental emplacements of concrete. Private Bergot is not in the trenches like his higher-ranking officers, and he is not manning an anti-aircraft battery or a cannon. We will be assisted by heavy artillery-grade missile batteries that launch from further inside the complex. They began to take out various Patriot missile batteries and various boats patrolling up and down the river. I gritted my teeth and swallowed hard, my thoughts briefly turning to the heavy missile batteries and the people who crewed them. My first command was an antiaircraft battery in the Washington-Baltimore defense perimeter. To frustrate airborne landings, obstacles were set up, areas flooded and a nightmare of antiaircraft batteries were ready. These new air defense units are a composite of Patriot, Avenger, and Stinger Missile batteries. Right around me there are Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries. The lights on the side were on, and it seemed its radar dishes were rotating, plus several of the unmanned turrets and missile batteries on the side were armed. 2.1 An artillery subunit of guns, men, and vehicles. 炮兵连 Example sentencesExamples The artillery batteries ' duties quickly changed to extending, improving and maintaining a brigade-sized defensive perimeter. The disappearance of the classical front line required that artillery batteries fight as infantry in the defense of their guns. Regiments would have an organic six-gun artillery battery and a reconnaissance troop. It was not uncommon for a brigade to have a cavalry troop or artillery battery as part of its organic makeup. The fire support battalion will consolidate the two mortar platoons of the original battalions into batteries. This consisted of 10 regular and 18 irregular regiments of cavalry, 74 regiments of infantry, and 22 artillery batteries. Wouldn't an artillery battery or a couple of guns have required troops to defend it? I also compare between women who serve in an artillery battery and women who serve in an infantry company. There are no heavy battalions or massed batteries in this picture. Anti-aircraft fire required tables that were far more detailed than those used by field artillery batteries. Ocean carries an artillery battery and can be used to supply the paratroopers, who are at present lightly armed, with more weapons. However, the Panzer Regiment destroyed a motorized column and an artillery battery before the French could withdraw. Even in engaging artillery batteries, the aim was primarily to wipe out the crews. Meanwhile the enemy had with astonishing rapidity brought a number of powerful batteries of artillery into position behind the Marre ridge, on the western bank of the river. The number of rapidly deployable mobile batteries used on each mission by the Army will depend on the operational requirements. The first unit that they saw was an artillery battery on the other side of an open field. The mortar platoon is the personal artillery battery for the battalion commander. Having readied their batteries for war, commanders now had to deal with preserving the peace. The task force later lost the howitzer battery, separate infantry platoon, and engineer platoon. Numerically, each of its three cavalry squadrons has the equivalent of a tank battalion, a mechanized battalion, and an artillery battery. Synonyms gun emplacement, artillery unit (batteries) artillery, cannonry, ordnance, heavy weapons, heavy weaponry, guns, cannons 3A set of similar units of equipment, typically when connected together. （尤指连在一起的）一套设备 a battery of equipment to monitor blood pressure Example sentencesExamples There is also a battery of powerful surveillance and monitoring equipment located inside and on the perimeter wall of Grosvenor Road barracks. Today you would need a battery of electronic equipment to measure the difference in noise and vibration between, say, a Focus and a Mondeo. Rolling to his right, he took cover behind a battery of computer equipment. Synonyms array, set, bank, group, row, line, line-up, raft, collection, assortment 3.1 An extensive series, sequence, or range of things. 一套，一组；一系列；一批 children are given a battery of tests 对孩子们进行了一组测试。 Example sentencesExamples Comprehensive batteries of tests have been developed to provide quantitative measures of fluency and comprehension and to assess a range of linguistic abilities. A battery of films is lined up for release next week. A battery of psychological tests administered to me at this time tells the story of my mental status in a stark manner that clearly outlines my assets and deficits. They also completed several batteries of tests and scales to help gauge their quality of life, mental and physical functioning and mood. You may undergo a battery of diagnostic tests and try a variety of treatment methods. At six months, a single leg hop for distance was added to the battery of tests. Each gambler is subjected to a battery of psychological tests prior to the treatment program, and again at the completion of the program. Gladys was moved to the cardiology ward but again, despite a further battery of tests (including repeating earlier ones) no one could say for sure what caused her pain. The battery consisted of seven tests that were enumerated according to the construct they tapped. Our extensive battery of outcome measures, which focus mainly on physical benefits, is unlikely to capture the full extent of these apparent social benefits. If you're a student that's been asked to run a battery of qualitative organic tests, you should ask for a refund of your tuition. A battery of neuropsychological tests were also administered by IVR with a standard touch-tone telephone. No single lab test helps with the diagnosis; however, a battery of tests should be performed to rule out medical complications of starvation. In these experiments, test subjects with maladies ranging from severe brain trauma to bipolar disorder undergo a battery of visual tests. Atopy was assessed by skin prick tests with a battery of 10 common inhalant allergens. As a part of a concussion preventive program, they routinely do a battery of baseline psychological and brain function tests on all entrants. Each patient underwent the same battery of tests before surgery, at discharge, three months after surgery, and two years after surgery. Well, their total scores on the Wechsler battery of mental tests correlate at 0.69. Children completed a battery of neuropsychological tests in the areas of processing speed, vigilance, and inhibition. An important reason for including this test in our battery was that there is evidence to suggest that performance on this test is strongly related to reading comprehension. Synonyms series, sequence, range, set, cycle, chain, string, progression, succession 4British usually as modifier A series of small cages for the intensive rearing of farm animals, especially calves and poultry. 〈主英〉（饲养农场动物的）层架式鸡笼，牛舍 battery farming battery hens 层架式鸡笼里的母鸡。 Example sentencesExamples Farming hundreds of thousands of fish in tiny cages makes battery hen operations look positively organic by comparison. If it's really about animal cruelty, why aren't we banning battery hens? But, if animal welfare is the aim, Parliament should be legislating on intensive animal farming methods and battery chickens raised in windowless warehouses. Egg-laying hens are confined to battery cages. Most birds reared for food are grown in battery farms, and so are kept indoors anyway. Despite this, battery cage egg production has increased over the last 50 years. These days it's all factory farms and abattoirs and battery chickens, but in the old days farming was much more personal and friendly. Here in Australia, approximately 10-million battery hens are caged for life. It is calling on politicians to support legislation to ban battery cages, which it says cause great suffering to hens. To teach our young people in a school like that, to be reared like battery hens, would be folly. Vegetarian, vegan, and animal-rights movements have prompted Sweden to become the first E.U. member to outlaw battery cages for hens. Many of today's farming techniques are not natural, regarding GM crops, battery hens and such, but many of us do not think of these as wrong. The European Commission recently announced an end to the cramped conditions suffered by hens housed in battery cages. Switzerland's elimination of battery cages increased the Swiss egg industry's profitability and its acceptability to consumers. With laying hens confined so closely in battery cages, the possibility of cross-contamination between animals must surely be very high. One answer to this objection is that most farmers have their hens securely locked away in battery cages with a floor surface the size of a piece of A4 paper so they are none too vulnerable to fox attack. Now thousands of battery farm birds in Scotland are set to escape the chop thanks to a rescue service being set up by an animal lover. The foundation has been protesting over the past 30 years against the selling of eggs from battery cages. Newer European battery cages with manure belts provide a system for daily clean out of manure. So nobody in Europe is now allowed to do that, and we also have legislation which is going to result in the phasing out of battery cages for laying hens. 5Law mass noun The infliction of unlawful personal violence on another person, even where the contact does no physical harm. 〔律〕殴打。参见 ASSAULT AND BATTERY any act which puts a person in immediate and reasonable fear of battery See also assault and battery count noun most batteries involve an assault Example sentencesExamples The guy has previous convictions for kidnapping, battery and assault. Kantor has listed three of them in her complaint: assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Now he awaits trial for first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery. That would be a criminal action, namely assault (rather than battery which includes physical contact). In most cases of battery or actual bodily harm the causal connection will be plain, but cases involving drugs have presented difficulties. Synonyms violence, assault, mugging grievous bodily harm, GBH, actual bodily harm, ABH beating, striking, thumping, thrashing, bashing aggression 6the batteryBaseball The pitcher and the catcher. 〔棒球〕投手和接手 Example sentencesExamples I was all excited to report on the fact Philadelphia started an all-Independent Baseball battery yesterday for its Grapefruit League game against Cleveland in Winter Haven, FL. The defensive baseball positions can be divided into three main categories: 1) the battery, 2) infielders, 3) outfielders. By "Clicking On" the pitcher's name you can see their battery mates for all of their starts as well as their shutouts. Origin Middle English: from Old French baterie, from battre 'to strike', from Latin battuere. The original sense was 'metal articles wrought by hammering', later 'a number of pieces of artillery used together', whence 'a number of Leyden jars connected up so as to discharge simultaneously' (mid 18th century), giving rise to sense 1. The root of battery is Latin battuere ‘to strike, beat’, and originally referred to metal articles shaped with a hammer. The military soon adopted the term to mean a succession of heavy blows inflicted upon the walls of a fortress with artillery, and so it came to have the sense ‘a number of pieces of artillery combining in action’. It is this idea of combining to produce a result that is behind the use in electrical batteries. The original electrical battery was a series of Leyden jars, glass jars with layers of metal foil on the outside and inside, used to store electric charge. Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) mentioned the device in a letter of 1748. Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) developed the later galvanic battery (named after the Italian physicist Luigi Galvani (1737–98), using chemical action to produce electric current, and described it in 1801. An electrical battery is a container with one or more cells, and this no doubt prompted the use of the word for a series of cages for laying hens. Rhymes cattery, chattery, flattery, tattery battery¹ nounˈbædəriˈbadərē 1A container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity and used as a source of power. 电池（组） as modifier battery power Example sentencesExamples If there's no electricity, how do you get the energy to power the batteries for the cameras? A quartz watch powered by a battery is constantly powered and tells accurate time all the time and do not need time adjustment. While the new electrodes have not yet been tested in fuel cells or batteries, Liu expects they will significantly boost energy output. The redox reaction in the battery is the source of the electrical energy; batteries are voltaic cells. For short missions, power can be provided by batteries or fuel cells, which produce power from chemical energy. The electricity that we get from power outlets and batteries can power all different kinds of devices. Hidden within cell phones, laptops, and digital cameras, lithium-ion batteries increasingly power the world. The batteries that power the electric motor cost thousands. At low speeds, the car uses only the electric motor powered by batteries. The cells in a car battery generate electricity with a chemical reaction between a lead plate and a lead dioxide plate that are bathed in acid. These engines also could provide electrical power instead of relying on solar cells or batteries. The product is advertised to operate using static electricity only and requiring no batteries or other power sources. Clocks go faster or slower over time, batteries and power sources go dead, or important time changes, such as daylight saving, can be forgotten. Compared to batteries, fuel cells will be smaller, much lighter and instantly rechargeable. Some analysts foresee fuel cells replacing batteries in consumer electronics and other applications before long. An electromagnet starts with a battery (or some other source of power) and a wire. Standard batteries can power digital cellphones for several hours of transmission or days of standby operation. If there is no electrical hookup, it can use the energy from a car battery, solar cell, or bicycle generator. However, the short and unpredictable life spans of existing chemical batteries means that new power supply solutions are needed. You can see why there is so much excitement around fuel cells right now - fuel cells solve the battery problem. Synonyms cell, accumulator, power unit 2A fortified emplacement for heavy guns. 炮台 Example sentencesExamples They began to take out various Patriot missile batteries and various boats patrolling up and down the river. At five o'clock, a convoy even brought a heavy missile battery. The first fortification was the emplacement of anti-aircraft batteries and machine-guns for defense of the skies. Over a quarter served in anti-aircraft batteries where they came under fire and operated searchlights and targeting instruments. I gritted my teeth and swallowed hard, my thoughts briefly turning to the heavy missile batteries and the people who crewed them. These new air defense units are a composite of Patriot, Avenger, and Stinger Missile batteries. The Italian army has installed anti-aircraft missile batteries around Rome, and Nato is sending a surveillance plane to overfly the city. Whenever we saw an anti-aircraft battery or munitions dump, we took it out. To frustrate airborne landings, obstacles were set up, areas flooded and a nightmare of antiaircraft batteries were ready. To this day, a casual walk along the Normandy coast reveals scores of entrenched batteries and nearly monumental emplacements of concrete. The US coastguard imposed a three-mile boat exclusion zone around the island and Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries were installed on beaches. Private Bergot is not in the trenches like his higher-ranking officers, and he is not manning an anti-aircraft battery or a cannon. My first command was an antiaircraft battery in the Washington-Baltimore defense perimeter. The shore batteries took a heavy toll of the landing craft, particularly at Westkapelle, and supporting armour bogged down in the soft clay. The lights on the side were on, and it seemed its radar dishes were rotating, plus several of the unmanned turrets and missile batteries on the side were armed. In this war, the Patriot missile batteries were used in a really innovative way. Right around me there are Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries. The missile batteries had ceased firing as the shorter range made them less effective. We will be assisted by heavy artillery-grade missile batteries that launch from further inside the complex. Mrs Reston was one of the last to leave, and carried her son across the battery, under heavy bombardment, to the waiting boat. 2.1 An artillery subunit of guns, men, and vehicles. 炮兵连 Example sentencesExamples Regiments would have an organic six-gun artillery battery and a reconnaissance troop. It was not uncommon for a brigade to have a cavalry troop or artillery battery as part of its organic makeup. Numerically, each of its three cavalry squadrons has the equivalent of a tank battalion, a mechanized battalion, and an artillery battery. Having readied their batteries for war, commanders now had to deal with preserving the peace. Anti-aircraft fire required tables that were far more detailed than those used by field artillery batteries. The disappearance of the classical front line required that artillery batteries fight as infantry in the defense of their guns. The number of rapidly deployable mobile batteries used on each mission by the Army will depend on the operational requirements. Wouldn't an artillery battery or a couple of guns have required troops to defend it? The fire support battalion will consolidate the two mortar platoons of the original battalions into batteries. This consisted of 10 regular and 18 irregular regiments of cavalry, 74 regiments of infantry, and 22 artillery batteries. The task force later lost the howitzer battery, separate infantry platoon, and engineer platoon. The mortar platoon is the personal artillery battery for the battalion commander. However, the Panzer Regiment destroyed a motorized column and an artillery battery before the French could withdraw. The artillery batteries ' duties quickly changed to extending, improving and maintaining a brigade-sized defensive perimeter. Even in engaging artillery batteries, the aim was primarily to wipe out the crews. Ocean carries an artillery battery and can be used to supply the paratroopers, who are at present lightly armed, with more weapons. The first unit that they saw was an artillery battery on the other side of an open field. I also compare between women who serve in an artillery battery and women who serve in an infantry company. There are no heavy battalions or massed batteries in this picture. Meanwhile the enemy had with astonishing rapidity brought a number of powerful batteries of artillery into position behind the Marre ridge, on the western bank of the river. Synonyms gun emplacement, artillery unit 3A set of units of equipment, typically when connected together. （尤指连在一起的）一套设备 a battery of equipment to monitor blood pressure Example sentencesExamples There is also a battery of powerful surveillance and monitoring equipment located inside and on the perimeter wall of Grosvenor Road barracks. Rolling to his right, he took cover behind a battery of computer equipment. Today you would need a battery of electronic equipment to measure the difference in noise and vibration between, say, a Focus and a Mondeo. Synonyms array, set, bank, group, row, line, line-up, raft, collection, assortment 3.1 An extensive series, sequence, or range of things. 一套，一组；一系列；一批 children given a battery of tests 对孩子们进行了一组测试。 Example sentencesExamples In these experiments, test subjects with maladies ranging from severe brain trauma to bipolar disorder undergo a battery of visual tests. A battery of neuropsychological tests were also administered by IVR with a standard touch-tone telephone. Our extensive battery of outcome measures, which focus mainly on physical benefits, is unlikely to capture the full extent of these apparent social benefits. An important reason for including this test in our battery was that there is evidence to suggest that performance on this test is strongly related to reading comprehension. Children completed a battery of neuropsychological tests in the areas of processing speed, vigilance, and inhibition. As a part of a concussion preventive program, they routinely do a battery of baseline psychological and brain function tests on all entrants. They also completed several batteries of tests and scales to help gauge their quality of life, mental and physical functioning and mood. Each patient underwent the same battery of tests before surgery, at discharge, three months after surgery, and two years after surgery. At six months, a single leg hop for distance was added to the battery of tests. You may undergo a battery of diagnostic tests and try a variety of treatment methods. Each gambler is subjected to a battery of psychological tests prior to the treatment program, and again at the completion of the program. A battery of psychological tests administered to me at this time tells the story of my mental status in a stark manner that clearly outlines my assets and deficits. Well, their total scores on the Wechsler battery of mental tests correlate at 0.69. A battery of films is lined up for release next week. Comprehensive batteries of tests have been developed to provide quantitative measures of fluency and comprehension and to assess a range of linguistic abilities. If you're a student that's been asked to run a battery of qualitative organic tests, you should ask for a refund of your tuition. The battery consisted of seven tests that were enumerated according to the construct they tapped. Atopy was assessed by skin prick tests with a battery of 10 common inhalant allergens. Gladys was moved to the cardiology ward but again, despite a further battery of tests (including repeating earlier ones) no one could say for sure what caused her pain. No single lab test helps with the diagnosis; however, a battery of tests should be performed to rule out medical complications of starvation. Synonyms series, sequence, range, set, cycle, chain, string, progression, succession 4Law The crime or tort of unconsented physical contact with another person, even where the contact is not violent but merely menacing or offensive. See also assault and battery Example sentencesExamples In most cases of battery or actual bodily harm the causal connection will be plain, but cases involving drugs have presented difficulties. That would be a criminal action, namely assault (rather than battery which includes physical contact). Kantor has listed three of them in her complaint: assault, battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Now he awaits trial for first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery. The guy has previous convictions for kidnapping, battery and assault. Synonyms violence, assault, mugging 5the batteryBaseball The pitcher and the catcher in a game, considered as a unit. Example sentencesExamples I was all excited to report on the fact Philadelphia started an all-Independent Baseball battery yesterday for its Grapefruit League game against Cleveland in Winter Haven, FL. By "Clicking On" the pitcher's name you can see their battery mates for all of their starts as well as their shutouts. The defensive baseball positions can be divided into three main categories: 1) the battery, 2) infielders, 3) outfielders. Origin Middle English: from Old French baterie, from battre ‘to strike’, from Latin battuere. The original sense was ‘metal articles wrought by hammering’, later ‘a number of pieces of artillery used together’, whence ‘a number of Leyden jars connected up so as to discharge simultaneously’ (mid 18th century), giving rise to battery (sense 1). Battery² proper nounˈbædəriˈbadərē the Battery A historic area at the southern end of Manhattan Island in New York City. noun.1 name.1
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