FROM BATTERY

Definition: FROM BATTERY

FROM BATTERY

1. Withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading. 4. (Elec.) (a) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. (b) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity. Note: In the trough battery, copper and zinc plates, connected in pairs, divide the trough into cells, which are filled with an acid or oxidizing liquid; the effect is exhibited when wires connected with the two end-plates are brought together. In Daniell's battery, the metals are zinc and copper, the former in dilute sulphuric acid, or a solution of sulphate of zinc, the latter in a saturated solution of sulphate of copper. A modification of this is the common gravity battery, so called from the automatic action of the two fluids, which are separated by their specific gravities. In Grove's battery, platinum is the metal used with zinc; two fluids are used, one of them in a porous cell surrounded by the other. In Bunsen's or the carbon battery, the carbon of gas coke is substituted for the platinum of Grove's. In Leclanch['e]'s battery, the elements are zinc in a solution of ammonium chloride, and gas carbon surrounded with manganese dioxide in a porous cell. A secondary battery is a battery which usually has the two plates of the same kind, generally of lead, in dilute sulphuric acid, and which, when traversed by an electric current, becomes charged, and is then capable of giving a current of itself for a time, owing to chemical changes produced by the charging current. A storage battery is a kind of secondary battery used for accumulating and storing the energy of electrical charges or currents, usually by means of chemical work done by them; an accumulator. 5. A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc. 6. (Metallurgy) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. --Knight. 7. The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down. 8. (Baseball) The pitcher and catcher together.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: FROM BATTERY

A nickel will buy you a steak and kidney pie, a cup of coffee, a slice of cheesecake and a newsreel with enough change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the polo grounds. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Moonlight on Lake Champlain from Battery Park, Burlington, Vt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sunset on Lake Champlain from Battery Park, Burlington, Vt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lake Champlain, from Battery Park, Burlington, Vt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Women

Uganda

There were no laws that specifically protect women from battery or spousal rape, although there is a general law concerning assault. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: barometry, ferryboat, formatter.

-3 letters: reformat.

-4 letters: abettor, aborter, battery, bromate, forayer, forbear, forearm, forebay, formate, mattery, mortary, taborer, taboret, torrefy.

-5 letters: ambery, armory, artery, barret, barter, baryte, batter, betray, bettor, boater, borate, bratty, brayer, embryo, farmer, fatter, femora, ferbam, foamer, forbye, foreby, format, former, framer, frater, fretty, martyr, matter, mortar, orfray, rafter, rarefy, ratter.

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