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Meaning of விளக்கு in English

  • To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
  • To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle.
  • To make clear, bright, or luminous.
  • To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
  • To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.
  • To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
  • To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
  • Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
  • A thin plate or lamina.
  • A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
  • Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
  • A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.
  • The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.
  • The river lamprey (Ammocoetes, / Lampetra, fluviatilis).
  • Shining; brilliant.
  • Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid.
  • A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusive censure written only to reproach and distress.
  • To subject to abusive ridicule expressed in writing; to make the subject of a lampoon.
  • of Lampoon
  • The writer of a lampoon.
  • See Lamprey.
  • Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
  • An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
  • A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
  • A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
  • A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
  • A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.
  • A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
  • See Aristotle's lantern.
  • To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.
  • of Lantern
  • See Lantern.

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