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pala — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • blade noun The flat, sharp-edged cutting part of a knife, sword, or similar tool.
  • paddle noun A short pole with a broad blade at one or both ends, used to propel and steer a small boat.
  • rotor noun The rotating part of a motor, generator, or similar machine.
  • sail noun A large piece of fabric rigged on a boat to catch the wind and drive it forward.
  • shovel verb To move earth, snow, or other loose material using a shovel.
  • trowel noun A small handheld tool with a flat or scoop-shaped blade, used for spreading mortar or digging in a garden.
  • vane noun A device mounted on a roof or pole that turns to show which way the wind is blowing.

Senses

pala is used for these senses in English:

  • blade The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
  • blade (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
  • paddle A blade of a waterwheel.
  • rotor (aviation) The wing of a helicopter or other rotary-wing aircraft.
  • sail (nautical) A piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along. The sail may be attached to the boat via a combination of mast, spars and ropes.
  • shovel A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
  • trowel A tool used for smoothing a mold.
  • vane Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.

blade — full definition

  1. noun The flat, sharp-edged cutting part of a knife, sword, or similar tool.
  2. noun A flat, thin part shaped like a cutting blade, such as of a fan, propeller, oar, or grass.
  3. verb To skate using inline skates ("rollerblades").

paddle — full definition

  1. noun A short pole with a broad blade at one or both ends, used to propel and steer a small boat.
  2. verb To move a small boat through water using a paddle.
  3. verb To wade or splash about playfully in shallow water.

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