battery
US: /ˈbætɝi/
UK: /bˈætəɹi/
UK: /bˈætəɹi/
English Vietnamese dictionary
battery /'bætəri/
- danh từ
- (quân sự) khẩu đội (pháo)
- (điện học) bộ pin, ắc quy
- bộ
- cooking battery: bộ đồ xoong chảo
- dãy chuồng nuôi gà nhốt
- battery chicken: gà nhốt vỗ béo
- (pháp lý) sự hành hung, sự bạo hành
- to turn someone's battery against himself
- lấy gậy ông đập lưng ông
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun (plural batteries)
1 [C] a device that is placed inside a car engine, clock, radio, etc. and that produces the electricity that makes it work: to replace the batteries + a rechargeable battery + battery-powered / -operated + a car battery + The battery is flat (= it is no longer producing electricity).
2 [C] ~ (of sth) (written) a large number of things or people of the same type: He faced a battery of questions. + a battery of reporters
3 [C] (technical) a number of large guns that are used together
4 [C] (BrE) (often used as an adjective) a number of small cages that are joined together and are used for keeping chickens, etc. in on a farm: a battery hen + battery eggs
Compare: FREE-RANGE
5 [U] (law) the crime of attacking sb physically
see also ASSAULT AND BATTERY
Idioms see RECHARGE
Collocation dictionary
1 for electricity
ADJ.
dead, flat
The car won't start?the battery's flat.
| rechargeable | car, torch | alkaline, lithium
VERB + BATTERY
charge, recharge | change, replace | connect
Is the battery connected correctly?
| be powered by, run on, use, work on
The machine can also run on batteries.
BATTERY + VERB
give out, go dead, run down, run out
After about six hours, the battery will run down.
BATTERY + NOUN
power | life
With our product you get longer battery life.
| failure | charger
PHRASES
battery-operated, battery-powered
a small battery-powered car
2 large group of similar things
ADJ.
full, whole
PREP.
~ of
I had to answer a whole battery of questions.
PHRASES
a battery of tests
Concise English dictionary
batteries'bætərɪ
noun
+group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
+a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
+a collection of related things intended for use together
+a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
+a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
+the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
+an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
