Meaning of رکاوٹ in English
- A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
- A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.
- A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.
- An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.
- Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.
- The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.
- The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.
- Disruption.
- The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress.
- That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
- Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column.
- A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- To make a nap on (cloth); to friz. See Friz, v. t., 2.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which contains two bushels.
- To put in a hamper.
- To put a hamper or fetter on; to shackle; to insnare; to inveigle; hence, to impede in motion or progress; to embarrass; to encumber.
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- of Hamper
- See Harrier.
- A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden.
- To inclose or separate with a hedge; to fence with a thickly set line or thicket of shrubs or small trees; as, to hedge a field or garden.
- To obstruct, as a road, with a barrier; to hinder from progress or success; -- sometimes with up and out.
- To surround for defense; to guard; to protect; to hem (in).
- To surround so as to prevent escape.
- To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations.
- To reduce the risk of a wager by making a bet against the side or chance one has bet on.
- To use reservations and qualifications in one's speech so as to avoid committing one's self to anything definite.
- Same as Hindrance.
- Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
- To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
- To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
- To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.
- of Hinder
- Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a.
- The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
- That which hinders; an impediment.
- To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; -- said of something obstructed or impeded.
- To hit the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- To hook; to catch or fasten as by a hook or a knot; to make fast, unite, or yoke; as, to hitch a horse, or a halter.
- To move with hitches; as, he hitched his chair nearer.
- A catch; anything that holds, as a hook; an impediment; an obstacle; an entanglement.
- The act of catching, as on a hook, etc.
- A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.
- A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
- A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
- A small dislocation of a bed or vein.
- of Hitch
- A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
- In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
- An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
- To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
- of Impede
- That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
- To impede.
- Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive.
- Hindered; obstructed.
- A hindering; a hindrance.
- Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.
- The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.
- That which is introduced or inserted, especially something foreign or spurious.
- The method or operation of finding from a few given terms of a series, as of numbers or observations, other intermediate terms in conformity with the law of the series.
- To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.
- To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
- Broken; interrupted.
- The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
- The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
- Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.
- Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
- That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.
- A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.
- The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil.
- Obstinacy; stubbornness.
- Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous.
- The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond.
- To constrain; to put under obligation.
- To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body.
- To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation.
- of Obstruct
- The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
- That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance.
- The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
- The act or the policy of obstructing progress.
- Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine.
- Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent.
Meaning of رکاوٹ in English
Articles Related to ‘رکاوٹ’
Browse Other Words By Clicking On Letters