Breading vs. Batter — What's the Difference?

A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.

To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.

Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life

To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.

Something that nourishes; sustenance

To damage, as by heavy wear

Means of support; livelihood

To attack verbally, as with criticism.

(Slang) Money.

To harass or distress, as with repeated questions.

To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking

To deliver repeated heavy blows; pound

Present participle of bread

To coat in batter

The coating of a thin slice of meat in flour, egg and breadcrumbs prior to frying

To construct so as to create an upwardly receding slope.

A damaged area on the face of type or on a plate.

The player at bat in baseball and cricket.

A liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, milk, and eggs, used in cooking.

A slope, as of the outer face of a wall, that recedes from bottom to top.

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

(cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

To intoxicate.

(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.

A binge; a heavy drinking session.

A paste of clay or loam.

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

(cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.

(cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.

(cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

To slope gently backward.

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

Paste of clay or loam.

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.

(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

A flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon

Strike against forcefully;

Strike violently and repeatedly;

Make a dent or impression in;