Meaning of তক্তা in English
- A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.
- A table to put food upon.
- Hence: What is served on a table as food; stated meals; provision; entertainment; -- usually as furnished for pay; as, to work for one's board; the price of board.
- A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc.
- A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard; as, to bind a book in boards.
- The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.
- The border or side of anything.
- The side of a ship.
- The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.
- To cover with boards or boarding; as, to board a house.
- To go on board of, or enter, as a ship, whether in a hostile or a friendly way.
- To enter, as a railway car.
- To furnish with regular meals, or with meals and lodgings, for compensation; to supply with daily meals.
- To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel.
- To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
- of Dado
- That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
- In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.
- In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.
- A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.
- Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer.
- One of the separate articles in a declaration of the principles of a party or cause; as, a plank in the national platform.
- To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship.
- To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager.
- To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
- To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
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