battery
noun
1 battery
Group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place.
Roget 273: ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom. navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping. man of war etc. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship†; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala†; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound. ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine†; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree [Fr.]; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy†, cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse†, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop [Coll.], nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine. boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau [Can.], broadhorn†, dory, droger†, drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot†; shallop†, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble†, punt, cog, kedge, lerret†; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan†; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame†; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht. catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel†, caravel; felucca, caique†, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist†; bilander†, dogger†, hooker, howker†; argosy, carack†; galliass†, galleon; polacca†, polacre†, tartane†, junk, lorcha†, praam†, proa†, prahu†, saick†, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah†; nuggah†; kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme†, trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan†, wangan [U.S.], wharf boat. balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane†; hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute. jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft. ... show more
Roget 726: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival†; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper†, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough. prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator, athlete, wrestler; fighting-cock, game-cock; warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent†; campaigner, veteran; swordsman, sabreur†, redcoat, military man, Rajput. armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth†, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible†; auxiliary, bersagliere†, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale [Fr.]; minuteman [U.S.]; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus [Lat.], national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops. janissary; myrmidon; Mama, Mameluke; spahee†, spahi†, Cossack, Croat, Pandoz. irregular, guerilla, partisan, condottiere†; franctireur [Fr.], tirailleur†, bashi-bazouk; [guerilla organization names: list], vietminh, vietcong; shining path; contras; huk, hukbalahap. mercenary, soldier of fortune; hired gun, gunfighter, gunslinger; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian. hit man torpedo, soldier. levy, draught; Landwehr [G.], Landsturm [G.]; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies. infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins†, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy†, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer etc. (commander) 745; subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman†; spear bearer; halberdier†, lancer; musketeer, carabineer†, rifleman, jager [G.], sharpshooter, yager†, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer†; archer, bowman. horse and foot; horse soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur [Fr.], uhlan, mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier [Fr.]; Foot Guards, Horse Guards. gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman†, matross†; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantry, rifles, chasseur [Fr.], zouave; military train, coolie. army, corps d'armee [Fr.], host, division, battalia†, column, wing, detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion, sotnia†, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad; piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of skirmishers. war horse, charger, destrier. marine, man-of-war's man etc. (sailor) 269; navy, wooden walls, naval forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadron. [ships of war] man-of-war; destroyer; submarine; minesweeper; torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; patrol torpedo boat, PT boat; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H. M.S.; battleship, battle wagon, dreadnought, line of battle ship, ship of the line; aircraft carrier, carrier. flattop [Coll.]; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer. [supporting ships] tender; store ship, troop ship; transport, catamaran; merchant marine. ... show more
Roget 727: arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor etc. (defense) 717; armory etc. (store) 636; apparatus belli [Lat.]. ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter" [Henry IV]; dumdum bullet. explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates; pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN. high explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite†, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline†. [knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion†, scimitar, cimeter†, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive†, glave†, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga†, baselard†, Lochaber ax, skean dhu†, creese†, kris, dagger, dirk, banger†, poniard, stiletto, stylet†, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme†, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife†; ataghan†, attaghan†, yataghan†; yatacban†; assagai, assegai†; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy†. gun, piece [Fr.]; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece [Fr.], mortar, howitzer, carronade†, culverin†, basilisk; falconet, jingal†, swivel, pederero†, bouche a feu [Fr.]; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur [Fr.], mitrailleuse [Fr.]; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun†, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom†; ten pounder. small arms; musket, musketry, firelock†, fowling piece [Fr.], rifle, fusil†, caliver†, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon†, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss†, arquebus, haguebut†; pistol, postolet†; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot†; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet†, escopette†, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut†, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov. bow, crossbow, balister†, catapult, sling; battering ram etc. (impulse) 276; gunnery; ballistics etc. (propulsion) 284. missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot†, langrage shot†, round shot, chain shot; balista†, ballista†, slung shot, trebucbet†, trebucket†; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve†, congreve rocket†; shrapnel, mitraille [Fr.]; levin bolt†, levin brand†; thunderbolt. pike, lance, spear, spontoon†, javelin, dart, jereed†, jerid†, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear†, oxgoad†, weet-weet, wommerah†; cattle prod; chemical mace. ... show more
is a specific kind of: artillery, artillery unit.
domain category: armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine.
Dutch: batterij
Polish: bateria
2 battery
A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series.
synonym: electric battery.
is a specific kind of: electrical device.
is a broader term that covers: A battery | B battery | C battery | galvanic battery, voltaic battery | galvanic pile, pile, voltaic pile.
Dutch: fysieke mishandeling, elektrische batterij, batterij, cel
Polish: akumulator
3 battery
A collection of related things intended for use together.
is a specific kind of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection.
has as a part: artillery, gun, heavy weapon, ordnance.
has as a member: sub-test.
Dutch: batterij
Polish: bateria
4 battery
A unit composed of the pitcher and catcher.
is a specific kind of: squad, team.
is a part of: baseball team.
5 battery
A series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores.
synonym: stamp battery.
is a specific kind of: stamp mill, stamping mill.
6 battery
The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target.
synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling.
Dutch: spervuur, artillerievuur, geschutvuur, kanonnade, kanonvuur, versperringsvuur
Polish: ogień zaporowy
7 battery
An assault in which the assailant makes physical contact.
synonym: assault and battery.
is a specific kind of: assault.
is a broader term that covers: resisting arrest.
Moby thesaurus: KP, Leyden jar, accumulator, amateur athlete, archer, army, army group, array, artillery, athlete, atomic battery, ballplayer, baseballer, baseman, bastinado, basting, batch, battalion, batter, battle group, beating, bells, belting, block, blocking back, body, bones, bowman, brigade, buffeting, bunch, bundle, cadre, caning, cannon, cannonry, castanets, catcher, celesta, cell, center, chime, chimes, clappers, clot, clubbing, clump, cluster, coach, coast artillery, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, competitor, corporal punishment, corps, cowhiding, crash cymbal, cricketer, cudgeling, cymbals, defensive lineman, detachment, detail, division, drubbing, dry cell, electronic battery, end, field army, field artillery, field train, file, finger cymbals, flagellation, flailing, flak, flogging, flying column, footballer, fuel cell, fustigation, gamelan, games-player, gamester, garrison, glockenspiel, gong, guard, handbells, heavy field artillery, horsewhipping, idiophone, infielder, jock, jumper, kit, kitchen police, lacing, lashing, legion, lineman, lot, lyra, maniple, maraca, marimba, metallophone, offensive lineman, orchestral bells, ordnance, organization, outfield, outfielder, outfit, pack, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, phalanx, pistol-whipping, platoon, player, poloist, posse, professional athlete, pugilist, quarterback, racer, rank, rattle, rattlebones, rawhiding, regiment, scourging, section, series, set, siege artillery, siege engine, sizzler, skater, snappers, solar battery, spanking, sport, sportsman, squad, squadron, storage battery, storage cell, strapping, stripes, suit, suite, swingeing, switching, tackle, tactical unit, tailback, tam-tam, task force, thrashing, tintinnabula, tonitruone, toxophilite, train, trench artillery, triangle, troop, trouncing, truncheoning, tubular bells, unit, vibes, vibraphone, wet cell, whipping, wing, wingback, wrestler, xylophone ... show more.
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