baffle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To confuse or perplex (someone) completely; to bewilder, to confound, to puzzle.

   “I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.”

2. fiil To defeat, frustrate, or thwart (someone or their efforts, plans, etc.); to confound, to foil.

   “It vvas the very Courſe vvhich our Saviour [Jesus] himſelf took, vvhen the Devil plied him vvith Temptation: Still he had a ſuitable Scripture ready to repel and baffle them all, one after another; every pertinent Text urged home being a direct Stab to a Temptation.”

3. fiil Of weather or wind: to hinder or prevent (a ship or its crew) from advancing.

   “"She [the ship] behaves nobly," observed the captain, stepping aft to the binnacle, and looking at the compass; "if the wind does not baffle us, we shall weather."”

4. fiil To dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control (a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound).

   “Fleet ships encountering on the high seas / Who speak, and unto eternity diverge— / These hailed each other, poised on the loud surge / Of one of Mrs. Grundy's Tuesday teas, / Nor trimmed one sail to baffle the driving breeze.”

5. fiil To deceive or hoodwink (someone); to gull.

   “And yet they cry out ſacrilege, that men vvill not be gulld and baffl'd the tenth of thir eſtates by giving credit to frivolous pretences of divine right.”

6. fiil Followed by away or out: to deprive of (something) through cheating or manipulation; also (followed by out of), to deprive of something by cheating or manipulating (someone).

   “[T]he Lavv of God pardoning and unpardoning hath bin ſhamefully branded, for vvant of heed in gloſſing, to have eluded and baffl'd out, all Faith and chaſtity from the marriagebed of that holy ſeed, vvith politick and judicial adulteries.”

7. fiil To expend effort or struggle in vain.

   “The ship, baffling with the winds, moved not an inch.”

8. fiil To argue or complain in a petty or trivial manner; to quibble.

   “Were it not strangely absurd and unhandsome to say, I cannot wait on God, because I must speak with a friend; […] [I]s it then just or seemly, by such comparisons to disparage his favor, by such pretences to baffle with his goodness?”

9. isim A device used to dampen, muffle, restrain, or otherwise control the movement of a fluid, or waves travelling through a fluid such as light or sound; specifically, a surface positioned inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one place to another without preventing motion altogether.

   “Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.”

10. isim A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
11. isim A device to prevent the spreading of sound or light.

    “sound baffle”

12. isim A barrier designed to obstruct and confuse enemies, rendering them vulnerable.
13. isim An argument or objection based on an ambiguity of wording or similar trivial circumstance; a minor complaint; a quibble.

    “As to Nonplus an Ariſtotle vvould look, not only like a Slur to a particular Philoſopher, but like a Baffle to Philoſophy it ſelf.”

14. fiil To publicly disgrace (someone); specifically, a recreant knight.

    “And after all, for greater infamie, / He by the heeles him hung vpon a tree, / And baffuld ſo, that all vvhich paſſed by, / The picture of his puniſhment might ſee, / And by the like enſample vvarned bee, / Hovv euer they through treaſon doe treſpaſſe.”

15. fiil To treat (someone) with contempt; to disgrace; also, to speak of (someone or something) in contemptuous terms; to speak ill of, to vilify.

    “Should we (as you) borrow all out of others, and gather nothing of our selues, our names would be baffuld on euerie booke-sellers stall, and not a chandler's mustard-pot would wipe his mouth with our wast paper.”

16. isim Intentional insult; affront; also, disgrace; (countable) an instance of this.

    “Novv that you intend to trail a Pike, and make Profeſſion of Arms, let me give you this Caveat, that nothing muſt be more precious to you than your Reputation. […] If you get but once handſomely off, you are made ever after; for you vvill be free from all Baffles and Affronts.”