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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.

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