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puru — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • batt noun Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
  • filing noun A tiny shaving or particle scraped off by a file or similar tool.
  • grit noun Small, hard particles such as sand, dirt, or grime.
  • shake verb To move something rapidly back and forth or up and down.
  • swarf noun The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.

Senses

puru is used for these senses in English:

  • batt Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
  • filing Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.
  • grit A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
  • grit Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
  • shake Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • swarf (uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone. [from mid 16th c.]

filing — full definition

  1. noun A tiny shaving or particle scraped off by a file or similar tool.
  2. noun The act of submitting or archiving an official document.

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