BAFFLE
\bˈafə͡l], \bˈafəl], \b_ˈa_f_əl]\
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
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To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
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To practice deceit.
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To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
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A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
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To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
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To practice deceit.
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To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
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A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To bring the efforts of to nothing by placing difficulties in the way; hence, to hinder, foil, or check.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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