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Meaning of घूमना in English

  • of Ramble
  • To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
  • To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
  • To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.
  • To return; to pass.
  • To cause to turn, as on an axis.
  • Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
  • of Roam
  • To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel.
  • To wrap round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.
  • To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.
  • To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling; as, a river rolls its waters to the ocean.
  • To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences.
  • To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.
  • To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
  • To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
  • To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
  • To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
  • To move, as a curved object may, along a surface by rotation without sliding; to revolve upon an axis; to turn over and over; as, a ball or wheel rolls on the earth; a body rolls on an inclined plane.
  • To move on wheels; as, the carriage rolls along the street.
  • To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball; as, the cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.
  • To fall or tumble; -- with over; as, a stream rolls over a precipice.
  • To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away.
  • To turn; to move circularly.
  • To move, as waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
  • To incline first to one side, then to the other; to rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about.
  • To turn over, or from side to side, while lying down; to wallow; as, a horse rolls.
  • To spread under a roller or rolling-pin; as, the paste rolls well.
  • To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.
  • To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise; as, the thunder rolls.
  • The act of rolling, or state of being rolled; as, the roll of a ball; the roll of waves.
  • That which rolls; a roller.
  • A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
  • One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill; as, to pass rails through the rolls.
  • That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc.
  • A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
  • Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list.
  • A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form; as, a roll of carpeting; a roll of ribbon.
  • A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
  • A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself.
  • The oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.
  • A heavy, reverberatory sound; as, the roll of cannon, or of thunder.
  • The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
  • Part; office; duty; role.
  • of Reeve
  • To draw through an eye or aperture.
  • To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool.
  • To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning.
  • A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
  • A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving.
  • To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy.
  • Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise.
  • To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range).
  • To wander over or through.
  • To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together.
  • The act of wandering; a ramble.
  • of Rove
  • The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.
  • A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a rove. See 2d Rove, 2.
  • The act of one who roves or wanders.

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