Meaning of موڑ in English
- Diagonally.
- The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.
- The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course.
- A deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.
- The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.
- The act of freeing from inflections.
- To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
- To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
- Divergence.
- Alt. of Divergency
- The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
- That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth.
- The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.
- Diversion; amusement; recreation.
- A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play.
- The act of flexing or bending; a turning.
- A bending; a part bent; a fold.
- Syntactical change of form of words, as by declension or conjugation; inflection.
- The bending of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.
- The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
- A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
- A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
- The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
- Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
- A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.
- Same as Diffraction.
- Inflection.
- A joining; a union; an alliance.
- The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones.
- A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency.
- The act of turning toward or downward.
- The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception."
- The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
- A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
- A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- Hence, to turn from the true form or meaning; to pervert; as, to twist a passage cited from an author.
- To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To wind into; to insinuate; -- used reflexively; as, avarice twists itself into all human concerns.
- To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other; as, to twist yarn or thread.
- Hence, to form as if by winding one part around another; to wreathe; to make up.
- To form into a thread from many fine filaments; as, to twist wool or cotton.
- To be contorted; to writhe; to be distorted by torsion; to be united by winding round each other; to be or become twisted; as, some strands will twist more easily than others.
- To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.
- The act of twisting; a contortion; a flexure; a convolution; a bending.
- The form given in twisting.
- That which is formed by twisting, convoluting, or uniting parts.
- A cord, thread, or anything flexible, formed by winding strands or separate things round each other.
- A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.
- A kind of cotton yarn, of several varieties.
- A roll of twisted dough, baked.
- A little twisted roll of tobacco.
- One of the threads of a warp, -- usually more tightly twisted than the filling.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together; as, Damascus twist.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A beverage made of brandy and gin.
- A twig.
- Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest.
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