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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Waft (0.01936 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Waft.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: waft
melayang, menayang
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: waft
waft
n : a long flag; often tapering [syn:
pennant,
pennon,
streamer]
waft
v 1: be driven or carried along, as by the air;
“Sounds wafted
into the room”
2: blow gently;
“A breeze wafted through the door”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Waft
Waft
\Waft\, v. i.
To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
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And now the shouts waft near the citadel. --Dryden.
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Waft
\Waft\, n.
1. A wave or current of wind.
“Everywaft of the air.”
--Longfellow.
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In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing
Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains
In one wide waft. --Thomson.
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2. A signal made by waving something, as a flag, in the air.
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3. An unpleasant flavor. [Obs.]
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4. (Naut.) A knot, or stop, in the middle of a flag. [Written
also
wheft.]
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Note: A flag with a waft in it, when hoisted at the staff, or
half way to the gaff, means, a man overboard; at the
peak, a desire to communicate; at the masthead,
“Recall boats.”
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Waft
\Waft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Wafted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wafting.] [Prob. originally imp. & p. p. of wave, v. t. See
Wave to waver.]
1. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand
to; to beckon. [Obs.]
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But soft: who wafts us yonder? --Shak.
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2. To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse
of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant
medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
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A gentle wafting to immortal life. --Milton.
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Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. --Pope.
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3. To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.
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Note: This verb is regular; but waft was formerly som?times
used, as by Shakespeare, instead of wafted.
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