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Meaning of बल in English

  • of Accentuate
  • A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to similar shells of other genera.
  • A cockleshell.
  • The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners.
  • The fire chamber of a furnace.
  • A hop-drying kiln; an oast.
  • The dome of a heating furnace.
  • To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
  • A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
  • The Lotium, or darnel.
  • To stuff; to lard; to farce.
  • A waterfall; a cascade.
  • Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term.
  • Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
  • Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation.
  • Strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law, upon persons or things; violence.
  • Validity; efficacy.
  • Any action between two bodies which changes, or tends to change, their relative condition as to rest or motion; or, more generally, which changes, or tends to change, any physical relation between them, whether mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic, or of any other kind; as, the force of gravity; cohesive force; centrifugal force.
  • To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor.
  • To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind.
  • To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one;s will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon.
  • To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
  • To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc.
  • To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
  • To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a consient or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits.
  • To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none.
  • To provide with forces; to reenforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
  • To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
  • To use violence; to make violent effort; to strive; to endeavor.
  • To make a difficult matter of anything; to labor; to hesitate; hence, to force of, to make much account of; to regard.
  • To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
  • The quality or state of being rugose.
  • Quality or state of being sinuous.
  • A bend, or a series of bends and turns; a winding, or a series of windings; a wave line; a curve.
  • of Sinuosity

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