Slope vs. Batter — What's the Difference?

In mathematics, the slope or gradient of a line is a number that describes both the direction and the steepness of the line. Slope is often denoted by the letter m; there is no clear answer to the question why the letter m is used for slope, but its earliest use in English appears in O'Brien (1844) who wrote the equation of a straight line as "y = mx + b" and it can also be found in Todhunter (1888) who wrote it as "y = mx + c".Slope is calculated by finding the ratio of the "vertical change" to the "horizontal change" between (any) two distinct points on a line.

To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows.

A surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface

To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse.

A person from East Asia, especially Vietnam.

To damage, as by heavy wear

(of a surface or line) be inclined from a horizontal or vertical line; slant up or down

To attack verbally, as with criticism.

Move in an idle or aimless manner

To harass or distress, as with repeated questions.

To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline

To deliver repeated heavy blows; pound

To move or walk

To coat in batter

To cause to slope

To construct so as to create an upwardly receding slope.

An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.

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

A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline

The player at bat in baseball and cricket.

A deviation from the horizontal.

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

The amount or degree of such deviation.

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

The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.

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

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or ancestry.

(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

To intoxicate.

The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

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

(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

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

(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

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.

The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).

A binge; a heavy drinking session.

A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

A paste of clay or loam.

(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.

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

(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

To try to move surreptitiously.

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

(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

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

(obsolete) Sloping.

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

(obsolete) slopingly

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

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

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.

Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

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

The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean; as, the Pacific slope.

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

Sloping.

To slope gently backward.

In a sloping manner.

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

To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as, to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in cutting a garment.

Paste of clay or loam.

To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.

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

To depart; to disappear suddenly.

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

An elevated geological formation;

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

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal;

(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

Be at an angle;

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;