Kilo Lingo

/ˈbæt.ər.i/

Line drawing of battery
Coloured illustration of battery
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Translation

A small object that stores power and makes phones, toys, and cars work.

Word origin

From French batterie, a set of guns firing together, from battre, to hit; the power cell was named after a set of connected cells.

Origin
French
Root
battre

Grammar

Gender
Pluralbatteries

Examples

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A dead battery has no power left in it.

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Batteries is the plural of battery.

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In British English a flat battery is an empty one.

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This word is part of lesson 46.