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Meaning of ખંડ in English

  • Trial; attempt; essay.
  • Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
  • Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
  • Tested purity or value.
  • The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
  • The alloy or metal to be assayed.
  • To try; to attempt; to apply.
  • To affect.
  • To try tasting, as food or drink.
  • To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.
  • To attempt, try, or endeavor.
  • A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
  • Apartments in a lodging house.
  • A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
  • A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
  • A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
  • A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
  • A chamber pot.
  • That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
  • A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
  • A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
  • To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
  • To be lascivious.
  • To shut up, as in a chamber.
  • To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
  • Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
  • Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
  • Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
  • Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
  • That which contains anything; a receptacle.
  • One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.
  • An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance.
  • An arrangement of a fleet in a wedge or V formation.
  • To place in echelon; to station divisions of troops in echelon.
  • To take position in echelon.
  • A side work, made of gabions, fascines, or bags, filled with earth, or of earth heaped up, to afford cover from the flanking fire of an enemy.
  • of Epenthesis
  • The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed.

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