thwart

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Placed or situated across something else; cross, oblique, transverse.

   “Which elſe to ſeveral Sphears thou muſt aſcribe, / Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities, / Or ſave the Sun his labour, and that ſwift / Nocturnal and Diurnal rhomb ſuppos'd, / Inviſible elſe above all Starrs, the Wheele / Of Day and Night; […]”

2. sıfat Of people: having a tendency to oppose; obstinate, perverse, stubborn.

   “[…] and it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]”

3. sıfat Of situations or things: adverse, unfavourable, unlucky.
4. zarf Across the direction of travel or length of; athwart, crosswise, obliquely, transversely.

   “With adverſe blaſt up-turns them from the South / Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds / From Serraliona; thwart of theſe as fierce / Forth ruſh the Levant and the Ponent VVindes / Eurus and Zephir with their lateral noiſe, / Sirocco, and Libecchio.”

5. edat Across, athwart.
6. fiil To cause to fail; to frustrate, to prevent.

   “Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.”

7. fiil To place (something) across (another thing); to position crosswise.
8. fiil To hinder or obstruct by placing (something) in the way of; to block, to impede, to oppose.
9. fiil To move (something) across or counter to; to cross.

   “An arrow thwarts the air.”

10. isim A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.

    “The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.”

11. isim A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (“breadth”) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.

    “A well-made dugout canoe rarely needs a thwart.”

12. isim An act of thwarting; something which thwarts; a hindrance, an obstacle.