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बत्ती — meaning in English

battī

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English meaning

  • lamp noun A device that produces light, whether electric, oil-burning, or otherwise.
  • wick noun The braided cord in a candle or lamp that soaks up fuel to feed the flame.

Senses

बत्ती is used for these senses in English:

  • wick bundle of porous material in a candle, etc., that draws up a liquid fuel at one end, to be ignited at the other end to produce a flame; any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action
  • lamp oil device producing light

wick — full definition

  1. noun The braided cord in a candle or lamp that soaks up fuel to feed the flame.
  2. noun Any strip of absorbent material that draws liquid away by capillary action, including medically, to drain a wound.
  3. verb Of a material, to draw liquid along or through itself.

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