Canadian French Meaning of baffle

dérouter

Other Canadian French words related to dérouter

Definitions and Meaning of baffle in English

Wordnet

baffle (n)

a flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy

Wordnet

baffle (v)

be a mystery or bewildering to

hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)

Webster

baffle (v. t.)

To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.

Webster

baffle (v. i.)

To practice deceit.

To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.

Webster

baffle (n.)

A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.

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.

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.

A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.

FAQs About the word baffle

dérouter

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