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Definition: IN BATTERY |
IN BATTERY1. Projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Alexandria, Va. Magazine in Battery Rodgers.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A moment afterwards, placed squarely in the very middle of the street, astride of the gutter, the gun was in battery. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | There is a strong economic incentive for these to be recycled, because of the value of the 100,000 tons of lead contained in battery plates. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "IN BATTERY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Danish | høner i æglægningsbure (caged layers, layers housed in cages, laying hens kept in battery cages), burhøns (caged layers, layers housed in cages, laying hens kept in battery cages), æglæggere i bur (caged layers, layers housed in cages, laying hens kept in battery cages). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | inay atterybay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-n-r-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: ytterbia. | |
-2 letters: battery, battier, biretta, bittern, intreat, iterant, nattier, nitrate, tertian. | |
-3 letters: attire, baiter, banter, barite, baryte, batten, batter, betray, binary, binate, bitten, bitter, brainy, bratty, byrnie, entity, natter, nearby, nitery, ratine, ratite, ratten, rebait, retain, retina, retint, terbia, tetany, tinter, treaty, tyrant, yatter, yttria. | |
-4 letters: antre, bairn, banty, barny, barye, batty, betta, biter, bitty, brain, brant, brent, brine, briny, britt, entia, entry, inbye, inert, inter, irate, natty, netty, niter, nitre, nitty, rainy, ratty, retia, riant, taber, taint, tarty, tater, teary, tenia, tenty, terai, tetra, tinea, titan, titer, titre, train, trait, treat, tribe, trine, trite, yearn, yenta, yerba. | |
-5 letters: abet, abri, abye, aery, airn, airt, airy, ante, anti, arty, ayin, bait, bane, bani, bare, barn, bate, batt, bean, bear, beat, bent, beta, bier, bine, bint, bite, bitt, brae, bran, brat, bray, bren, brie, brin, brit, byre, byte, earn, etna, eyra, inby, nabe, nary, near, neat, nett, nite, rain, rani, rant, rate, rein, rent, rite, tain, tare, tarn, tart, tate, tear, teat, tent, tern, tier, tine, tint, tiny, tire, tray, tret, trey, tyer, tyin, tyne, tyre, yare, yarn, yean, year, yeti, yett. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-n-r-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: rentability. | |
+3 letters: exorbitantly. | |
+4 letters: integrability, penetrability, sinterability. | |
+5 letters: breathtakingly, inalterability, inheritability, intolerability, presentability, preventability, unalterability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E      42 41 54 54 45 52 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 00100000 01000010 01000001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N   B A T T E R Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E      0042 0041 0054 0054 0045 0052 0059 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4348236355454395259 |
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