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kupu — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bulb noun The rounded glass part of an electric light that produces light when current passes through it.
  • canopy noun A covering suspended or supported above something, such as a bed or entrance.
  • craw noun The crop or stomach-like pouch of a bird or animal, used in the idiom "stick in one's craw" for something that causes lasting resentment.
  • crop noun A plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.
  • crown noun An ornamental headpiece worn by a monarch as a symbol of royal power.
  • dome noun A rounded, hemispherical roof or ceiling.
  • drift noun A slow, gradual movement or change, often without direct control.

Senses

kupu is used for these senses in English:

  • antinode (physics) A region of maximum amplitude situated between adjacent nodes of a vibrating body, such as a string.
  • bulb Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
  • canopy In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
  • craw The crop of a bird.
  • crop (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
  • crown (religion) A round spot shaved clean on the top of the head, as a mark of the clerical state; the tonsure.
  • dome (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
  • drift The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.

bulb — full definition

  1. noun The rounded glass part of an electric light that produces light when current passes through it.
  2. noun A rounded underground plant part, made of a short stem and layered fleshy leaves, from which a new plant grows.

canopy — full definition

  1. noun A covering suspended or supported above something, such as a bed or entrance.
  2. noun The upper layer of branches and leaves in a forest.
  3. noun The transparent covering over an aircraft cockpit, or the fabric part of a parachute.
  4. verb To cover something as if with a canopy.

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