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Meaning of प्रेरणा in English

  • A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.
  • Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.
  • The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.
  • The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.
  • That which moves; a mover.
  • That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
  • The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading.
  • That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one.
  • Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
  • To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
  • The power of moving or producing motion.
  • The quality of being influenced by motives.
  • A sparrow.
  • A tern.
  • An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.
  • That which goads to action; an incitement.
  • Something that projects; a snag.
  • One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
  • Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
  • A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
  • A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.
  • A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
  • The short wooden buttress of a post.
  • A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
  • Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
  • Ergotized rye or other grain.
  • A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
  • A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
  • A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
  • To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
  • To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
  • To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
  • To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
  • A breath or blast of wind.
  • A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration.
  • A figurative or symbolical reference.
  • A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication; indirect reference; a hint.
  • of Embowel
  • The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.
  • The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.
  • The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
  • The effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.
  • The action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.
  • A mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.
  • To impel; to incite.
  • Not directed; aimless.
  • Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.
  • of Induce
  • To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.
  • To introduce, as to a benefice or office; to put in actual possession of the temporal rights of an ecclesiastical living, or of any other office, with the customary forms and ceremonies.
  • of Induct
  • The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment.
  • Plumage; feathers.
  • To sprinkle; to scatter.
  • The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.
  • The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
  • A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
  • To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
  • To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
  • To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.
  • To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
  • To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue.
  • To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire.
  • To breathe; to blow gently.
  • To infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate.
  • of Inspirit
  • The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.
  • The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance.
  • A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.
  • That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.

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