BAFFLE
- Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.
Baf"fle (băf"f'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baffled (-f'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Baffling (-flĭng).] [Cf. Lowland Scotch bauchle to treat contemptuously, bauch tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. b&ā;gr uneasy, poor, or b&ā;gr, n., struggle, bægja to push, treat harshly, OF. beffler, beffer, to mock, deceive, dial. G. b&ä;ppe mouth, beffen to bark, chide.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
He by the heels him hung upon a tree,
And baffled so, that all which passed by
The picture of his punishment might see.
Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
2. To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
[1913 Webster]
The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim.
Cowper.
[1913 Webster]
3. To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart. “A baffled purpose.” De Quincey.
[1913 Webster]
A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all.
South.
[1913 Webster]
Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations.
Prescott.
[1913 Webster]
The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
Locke.
[1913 Webster]
Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.
[1913 Webster]
Syn. -- To balk; thwart; foil; frustrate; defeat.
[1913 Webster]
Baf"fle, v. i. 1. To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.
[1913 Webster]
2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
Baf"fle, n. 1. A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture. [R.] “A baffle to philosophy.” South.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Engin.) (a) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated. (b) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. (Coal Mining) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine. [Local, U. S.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
