Word Finder - batteries

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A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.

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The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.

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A coordinated group of artillery weapons.

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An elevated platform on which cannon could be placed.

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An array of similar things.

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Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.

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A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.

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The catcher and the pitcher together

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Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal

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A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.

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The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.

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Apparatus for preparing or serving meals.

My batteries are low-- think I can Travel in an hour or so.

The batteries are manned by the naval corps (150 strong) of the Natal militia.

Durban harbour is defended by batteries with heavy modern guns.

Primary batteries have, in the case of all large offices, been displaced by accumulators.

Batteries can also leak causing internal chemical burns.

Most watches now come with batteries and this saves the fiddly winding up of the watch and ensures accurate time keeping.

There is no need to check batteries or to ensure that a spare set are packed just in case.

When buying an atomic alarm clock as a gift then it is an extra special gesture to also buy the batteries to go with it so someone can start using it straight away.

Batteries - Some alarm clocks require batteries in order for them to work.

It is important to check and see if batteries come with the clock or whether they need to be purchased.

Zen clocks are battery powered and 4 'c' batteries will power the clock for approximately two years when used every day.

The batteries last a long time and need only be replaced when they start to wear down.

The Eco-Drive range of watches never require new batteries and are powered using light.

This makes the watches very environmentally friendly and means that spent batteries do not need to be disposed of.

Watch batteries will eventually run down and lose their power.

The batteries therefore need to be replaced in order for the watch to continue working.

The clock runs on two AA batteries, so power failures need not be a concern.

But the Austrian gunners were intent on the Prussian batteries farther back, which as the light improved had come into action.

Not even deigning to notice the retreating columns, apparently too without escort, the batteries pressed forward till they reached the summit of the ridge trending eastward from Chlum towards the Elbe, whence the whole interior of the Austrian position was disclosed to them, and then they opened fire upon the Austrian reserves which lay below them in solid masses of army corps.

If the batteries and their artillery were somewhat out of date, the fact remained that warships steaming up the defile would be compelled to pass these fortifications at very close quarters, when the lack of range of their guns would cease to tell.

It had always been assumed during previous discussions on the question that warships adventuring the passage would try a rush, that they would endeavour to steam by the, batteries and drive the `defending gunners from their guns by concentrated fire.

Moreover, promising as the situation may have appeared to be from the attacking side in so far as neutralization of the Ottoman batteries was concerned, it was plain that the mine-sweepers were making disappointing progress.

This led to a mistaken idea that De Robeck's ships might have succeeded had they renewed their attack at once in spite of losses; the damage which they had done to the batteries had been almost insignificant, and they had not got within 5 m.

The chief defect of the tower was its weakness against vertical fire; its masonry was further liable to be cut through by breaching batteries.

With open-fire batteries for making the syrup, which was afterwards finished in the vacuum pan, very good sugar was produced, but at a cost that would be ruinous in to-day's markets.

The diffusion cells are closed, vertical, cylindrical vessels, holding generally 60 hectolitres, or 1320 gallons, and are arranged in batteries of 12 to 14.

The scale of the operations may be judged from the fact that the total number of troops mobilized up to the beginning of July 1905 amounted to 126 battalions, 8 squadrons and 15 batteries; the rebel leader Mahommed Yahiya had at this time a following of 50,000.

This led to a material reduction in the army, which, as reorganized, consists of 4000 officers and men, divided into seven battalions of infantry of 300 men each, seven squadrons of cavalry of 125 men each, and one regiment of mountain artillery of 590 men, with six batteries of mountain guns.

Calais, formerly a celebrated fortress, is defended by four forts, not of modern construction, by a citadel built in 1560, which overlooks it on the west, and by batteries.

Characteristic of the Rand is the fine white dust arising from the crushing of the ore, and, close to the batteries, the incessant din caused by the stamps employed in that operation.

The stamps are usually arranged in batteries of five; the order of working is usually I, 4, 2, 5, 3, but other arrangements, e.g.

Corps (7 battalions, 4 squadrons, 2 batteries) hearing from a passing officer that the I.

The French meanwhile had occupied Vionville and Flavigny, and other troops were moving down the slopes from Rezonville to their support, but the united onset of this whole German division overbore all resistance, and the French began to retire eastward, suffering terribly from the shell fire of the Prussian batteries.

Actually all available batteries had already been sent for and were trotting forward from every quarter towards the objective.

Three batteries succeeded in struggling through the mass, and, in coming into action, their left resting on St Hubert.

This was stopped almost entirely by the Prussian artillery fire; but the news of its coming spread through the stragglers in the ravine south of the great road, and a wave of panic again swept through the mass, many thousands bolting right upon the front of their own batteries, thus masking their fire at the most critical moment, and something like a crisis in the battle arose.

Tin amalgam is used for "silvering" mirrors, gold and silver amalgam in gilding and silvering, cadmium and copper amalgam in dentistry, and an amalgam of zinc and tin for the rubbers of electrical machines; the zinc plates of electric batteries are amalgamated in order to reduce polarization.

Sir Thomas Teddemaii, who was sent by Sandwich to attack the Dutch at Bergen, was suspected by the Danish governor of intending to play false, was fired on by the batteries, and was beaten off.

The works and town are carefully guarded on every side by redoubts and fortifications, and are commanded by batteries on the surrounding hills.

It is defended by several batteries armed with modern heavy guns.

On either side of this centre was the cavalry in two long lines, while in front of the centre and close to the right at Liitzen were the two batteries of heavy artillery.

The establishments in 1910 consisted of thirteen regiments and fifty separate companies of infantry, two squadrons and two troops of cavalry, four light batteries, one regiment of engineers, a signal corps of two companies and a naval militia, commanded by a captain and consisting of two battalions and two separate divisions.

During the night his torpedo-boats surprised the Russian squadron in harbour and inflicted serious losses, and later in the day the battleships engaged the coast batteries.

From time to time the torpedo-craft tried to run in past the batteries, several attempts were made to block the harbour entrance by sinking vessels in the fairway, and free and deadly use was made by both sides of submarine mines.

It is possible that these were embryonic " batteries traditores " to flank the intervals.

Thus on the north front, from Chi-Kuan battery to Sung-Shu, a distance of about two miles, there were three permanent forts and seven semi-permanent works and batteries.

Behind these was the " Chinese Wall," and behind that more batteries and trenches.

The Lun-Ho valley Where it cut through the line was closed by entanglements and fougasses, and swept by batteries on each side.

Heavier howitzers had been sent for from Japan, and on the 1st of October the first batteries of 28 centimetre (11 in.) howitzers came into action.

The siege was now pressed with vigour by the construction of batteries at and around 203 Metre, by an infantry advance against the main western defences, and by renewed operations against the eastern forts.