BAFFLE vs THWART: NOUN
- An artificial obstruction (in the form of a board, plate, or cleat placed in the channel) to the continuous smooth flow of a liquid or gas.
- Defeat; discomfiture.
- Disgrace; affront.
- A partition that prevents interference between sound waves in a loudspeaker.
- A usually static device that regulates the flow of a fluid or light.
- Same as baffler, 2.
- A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.
- A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
- A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.
- A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy
- A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
- A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
- An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
- A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
- A seat in an open boat reaching from one side to the other, or athwart the boat.
- A seat across a boat on which the oarsman sits.
- Opposition; defiance.
- See the extract.
- A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
- A crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
BAFFLE vs THWART: ADJECTIVE
- N/A
- Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
- Fig.: Perverse; crossgrained.
- Extending, lying, or passing across; transverse.
- Eager to oppose, especially wrongly; perverse.
BAFFLE vs THWART: VERB
- Totally bewilder; confuse or perplex.
- Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
- Be a mystery or bewildering to
- Check the emission of (sound)
- To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
- Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
BAFFLE vs THWART: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To practice deceit.
- To struggle against in vain.
- Hence, to be in opposition; to clash.
- To move or go in an oblique or crosswise manner.
BAFFLE vs THWART: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To confuse or perplex, especially so as to frustrate or prevent from taking action.
- To impede the force or movement of (a fluid).
- One that frequently shifts from one point to another.
- To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
- To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
- To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
- To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat.
- To move across or counter to; to cross.
- To oppose and defeat the efforts, plans, or ambitions of (someone).
- To prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of.
BAFFLE vs THWART: ADVERB
- N/A
- Thwartly; obliquely; transversely; athwart.
BAFFLE vs THWART: PREPOSITION
- N/A
- See Athwart ships, under Athwart.
BAFFLE vs THWART: OTHER WORD TYPES
- In coalmining, to brush out or mix fire-damp with air, to such an extent as to render it non-explosive.
- To struggle ineffectually; strive in vain: as, the ship baffled with the gale.
- To practise deceit; shuffle; quibble.
- To beat about, as the wind or stray cattle do standing grain or grass; twist irregularly together.
- To circumvent by interposing obstacles or difficulties; defeat the efforts, purpose, or success of; frustrate; check; foil; thwart; disconcert; confound: as, the fox baffled his pursuers; to baffle curiosity or endeavor.
- To hoodwink; cheat.
- To disgrace; treat with mockery or contumely; hold up as an object of scorn or contempt; insult; specifically, to subject to indignities, as a recreant knight or traitor.
- Restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)
- Lying or extending across or crosswise; cross; transverse.
- Antithetical.
- Perverse; contrary; cross-grained.
- To pass over or across; cross.
- To put crosswise, or one across another.
- To put in the way; oppose.
- To cross, as a purpose; contravene; frustrate; baffle.
- Synonyms Foil, Baffle, etc. See frustrate.
- To go crosswise or obliquely.
- To be in opposition; be contrary or perverse; hence, to quarrel; contend.
- From side to side; across; crosswise; transversely; athwart.
- Across; athwart.
- Opposite to; over against.
- Used as a seat in a rowboat
- (adverb; preposition) Athwart; across.
BAFFLE vs THWART: RELATED WORDS
- Beat, Spoil, Bilk, Thwart, Trounce, Puzzle, Foil, Stupefy, Dumbfound, Flummox, Frustrate, Amaze, Bewilder, Perplex, Mystify
- Stifle, Prevent, Forestall, Derail, Scuttle, Stymie, Queer, Cross thwart, Scotch, Cross, Bilk, Baffle, Spoil, Foil, Frustrate
BAFFLE vs THWART: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Beat, Spoil, Bilk, Thwart, Trounce, Puzzle, Foil, Stupefy, Dumbfound, Flummox, Frustrate, Amaze, Bewilder, Perplex, Mystify
- Disrupt, Stifle, Prevent, Forestall, Derail, Scuttle, Stymie, Queer, Scotch, Cross, Bilk, Baffle, Spoil, Foil, Frustrate
BAFFLE vs THWART: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- The baffle filters are made of Stainless steel.
- Bulbs are inset like lights with baffle trim.
- In addition to upgrading to anodized baffles, the Genesis baffle is the quietest K baffle in the world.
- The speaker drivers should be recessed into the baffle though, so there are no discontinuities across the face of the baffle itself.
- Replace baffle board making sure the board is seated on top of air tubes and behind front baffle board holder.
- The baffle, located at the intersection of two pipes, which exists the tank is known as outlet baffle.
- The most common type of baffle is the segmental baffle.
- Nouns for baffle include baffle, bafflement, bafflements, baffler, bafflers, baffles, bafflestone, bafflestones, baffling, bafflingness and bafflings.
- Baffle: Paxmate Plus custom fit pieces fill the baffle compartments.
- The baffle cut is the segment height removed to form the baffle, expressed as a percentage of the baffle disc diameter.
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