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Meaning of পড়া in English

  • To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
  • To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
  • To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
  • To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
  • To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
  • To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
  • To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points.
  • To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
  • To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
  • To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
  • To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
  • To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
  • To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
  • To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
  • To come; to occur; to arrive.
  • To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
  • To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
  • To belong or appertain.
  • To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
  • To let fall; to drop.
  • To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
  • To diminish; to lessen or lower.
  • To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
  • To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
  • The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
  • The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
  • Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
  • Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
  • The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
  • Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
  • A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
  • Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
  • Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
  • The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
  • Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
  • The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
  • That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
  • The act of felling or cutting down.
  • Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
  • Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
  • That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
  • To observe; to examine with care.
  • To read through; to read carefully.
  • Rennet. See 3d Reed.
  • of Read
  • To advise; to counsel.
  • To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
  • To tell; to declare; to recite.
  • To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.
  • Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
  • To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
  • To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
  • To give advice or counsel.
  • To tell; to declare.
  • To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
  • To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
  • To learn by reading.
  • To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
  • To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
  • Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
  • Reading.
  • imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
  • Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
  • The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
  • Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
  • A lecture or prelection; public recital.
  • The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
  • Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
  • An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
  • Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
  • Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
  • p. p. of Ride.
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