battery

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. assault, attack; guns, artillery; array, assemblage; Ley-den jar, voltaic cell, accumulator, [wet or dry] cell, solar or storage battery. See arms, store, power, combatant.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Cells that generate or store electricity]

Syn. dry cell, wet cell, storage cell, storage battery, flashlight battery, solar battery, atomic battery, electric cell, voltaic battery, alkaline battery.

2. [An organized unit of artillery]

Syn. gunnery unit, artillery corps, field guns, cannon, primary or main battery, secondary battery.

3. [In baseball, a pitching team]

Syn. pitcher and catcher, mound team, pitching combination.

4. [The act of beating]

Syn. assault, mayhem, attack, thumping, beating, physical violence, battering, pounding, mugging, slugging*.

5. [A group of similar things]

Syn. set, series, array; see collection 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. electrical storage unit dry cell, storage cell.

2. assault beating, mugging, thrashing.

3. series array, line, string.

4. gunnery artillery.