Meaning of নল in English
- A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar.
- Alt. of Canulated
- A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
- The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
- Any hollow body of cylindrical form
- The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
- The barrel of an air or other pump.
- The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
- The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
- The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.
- A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
- Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.
- A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
- A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
- The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
- An elongated body or vein of ore.
- A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.
- A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.
- A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.
- To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.
- To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.
- To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.
- To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.
- To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.
- To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.
- A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
- A telescope.
- A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
- The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
- A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
- A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
- A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
- One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
- To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
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