| battery | | |
| n. (group) | 1. battery | group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ artillery unit, artillery | an army unit that uses big guns. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. battery, electric battery | a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series. |
| ~ a battery | the battery used to heat the filaments of a vacuum tube. |
| ~ b battery | battery for supplying a constant positive voltage to the plate of a vacuum tube. |
| ~ c battery | battery used to maintain the grid potential in a vacuum tube. |
| ~ electrical device | a device that produces or is powered by electricity. |
| ~ electrode | a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit. |
| ~ terminal, pole | a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves. |
| ~ galvanic battery, voltaic battery | battery consisting of a number of voltaic cells arranged in series or parallel. |
| ~ galvanic pile, voltaic pile, pile | battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta. |
| n. (group) | 3. battery | a collection of related things intended for use together.; "took a battery of achievement tests" |
| ~ sub-test | one of a battery of related tests. |
| ~ artillery, heavy weapon, gun, ordnance | large but transportable armament. |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| n. (group) | 4. battery | a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher. |
| ~ baseball team | a team that plays baseball. |
| ~ team, squad | a cooperative unit (especially in sports). |
| n. (artifact) | 5. battery, stamp battery | a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores. |
| ~ pestle, stamp | machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores. |
| ~ stamp mill, stamping mill | a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps. |
| n. (act) | 6. barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling | 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" |
| ~ firing, fire | the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy.; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire" |
| n. (act) | 7. assault and battery, battery | an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact. |
| ~ assault | a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped. |
| ~ resisting arrest | physical efforts to oppose a lawful arrest; the resistance is classified as assault and battery upon the person of the police officer attempting to make the arrest. |
| contusion | | |
| n. (state) | 1. bruise, contusion | an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration. |
| ~ harm, hurt, injury, trauma | any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.. |
| ~ ecchymosis | the purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise. |
| ~ petechia | a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever). |
| ~ black eye, shiner, mouse | a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye. |
| n. (act) | 2. contusion | the action of bruising.; "the bruise resulted from a contusion" |
| ~ hitting, hit, striking | the act of contacting one thing with another.; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" |
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