Meaning of हेतू in English

To stretch' to extend; to distend.
To strain; to make tense.
To intensify; to strengthen.
To apply with energy.
To bend or turn; to direct, as one's course or journey.
To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard.
To fix the mind upon (something to be accomplished); to be intent upon; to mean; to design; to plan; to purpose; -- often followed by an infinitely with to, or a dependent clause with that; as, he intends to go; he intends that she shall remain.
To design mechanically or artistically; to fashion; to mold.
To pretend; to counterfeit; to simulate.
of Intendancy
The office or employment of an intendant.
A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
of Intend
Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent.
Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help.
Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.
One with whom marriage is designed; one who is betrothed; an affianced lover.
One who intends.
Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding.
Charge; oversight.
Intention; design; purpose.
The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument.
Intention.
Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.
Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to, but now with on; as, intent on business or pleasure.
The act of turning the mind toward an object; hence, a design; a purpose; intention; meaning; drift; aim.
A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
A determination to act in a certain way or to do a certain thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New York.
The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
The state of being strained. See Intension.
Any mental apprehension of an object.
Having designs; -- chiefly used in composition; as, well-intentioned, having good designs; ill-intentioned, having ill designs.
Closeness of attention or application of mind; attentiveness.
The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention.
Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air.
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.
A clump of trees in a prairie.
of Purport
That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.
Proposal to another; discourse.
Instance; example.
To set forth; to bring forward.
To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.
To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.
of Purpose
One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.
One who forms a purpose; one who intends.