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Meaning of কড়া in English

  • A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]
  • of Exact
  • Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
  • Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.
  • Tending to cause sleepiness; serving to make sleepy; strong; heady; as, nappy ale.
  • Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.
  • A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.
  • A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
  • See Damper, and 5th Mute.
  • The black tern.
  • Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.
  • The helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.
  • The after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.
  • Fig.: The post of management or direction.
  • The hinder part of anything.
  • The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
  • Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
  • Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
  • Antimonious.
  • Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.
  • Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
  • Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
  • Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
  • Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
  • Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
  • Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
  • Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
  • To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
  • To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
  • To make torpid; to benumb.
  • To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
  • of Stiffen
  • Somewhat stiff.
  • The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
  • The ruddy duck.
  • Unreasonably elevated; pompous; stilted; as, a stilty style.
  • Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
  • Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
  • Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
  • Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
  • Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
  • Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
  • Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
  • The quality or state of being stringent.
  • Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.
  • of Stub
  • Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
  • Abounding in stubs; stubby.
  • Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged.
  • Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.
  • The male falcon.
  • tarsus.
  • of Toughen

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