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Meaning of அடி in English

  • of Beat
  • To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum.
  • To punish by blows; to thrash.
  • To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.
  • To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
  • To tread, as a path.
  • To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
  • To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
  • To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
  • To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
  • To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
  • To move with pulsation or throbbing.
  • To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
  • To be in agitation or doubt.
  • To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
  • To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
  • To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
  • To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
  • A stroke; a blow.
  • A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
  • The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit.
  • A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
  • A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.
  • A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
  • A place of habitual or frequent resort.
  • A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
  • Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
  • To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
  • To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
  • A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
  • A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
  • A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  • The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
  • To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
  • To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
  • To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  • To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
  • To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
  • To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
  • To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
  • To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
  • To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
  • To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
  • To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
  • To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
  • To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
  • To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
  • To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  • To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
  • To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
  • A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
  • The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
  • The spouting of a whale.
  • A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
  • An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
  • A blossoming; a bloom.
  • To beat, pound, or together.
  • To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
  • See Foot.
  • Fact; performance.
  • of Foot
  • The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
  • Having sore or tender feet, as by reason of much walking; as, foot-sore cattle.
  • To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
  • To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
  • To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
  • To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
  • To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
  • To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
  • To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
  • To strike; to collide; to beat.
  • The act of smiting; a blow.
  • of Smite
  • imp. (/ rare p. p.) of Smite.

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