waft

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.

   “A breeze came in through the open window and wafted her sensuous perfume into my eager nostrils.”

2. fiil To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.

   “Unhappy Aureng-Zebe is in disgrace; / And your Morat, proclaimed the successor, / Is called, to awe the city with his power. / Those trumpets his triumphant entry tell, / And now the shouts waft near the citadel.”

3. fiil To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

   “[…] but ſoft: who wafts vs yonder.”

4. isim A light breeze.

   “It lay before him white and ghaistly, with mist blowing in wafts across it and a slow swaying of the tides.”

5. isim Something (such as an odor or perfume) that is carried through the air.

   “Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously.”

6. isim A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft.
7. isim A loose noncommittal shot, usually played to a ball pitched short of length and well wide of the off stump.