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Definitions: Baffle |
BaffleNoun1. A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy. Verb1. Be a mystery or bewildering to: "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!". 2. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent". 3. Check the emission of (sound). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "baffle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Mechanical Engineering | A plate or wall for deflecting gases or other fluids as in a steam-boiler flue, a reverberatory furnace or a gasoline-engine muffler. Source: European Union. (references) |
Aerospace | A plate, grating, or the like used especially to block, hinder, or divert a flow or to hinder the passage of something, as: (a) A plate used to conduct, or help to conduct, a flow of cooling air around an engine cylinder. (b) A plate, wall, or the like in a fuel tank or other liquid container, used especially to prevent sloshing of the contents. (c) A ridge or wall on the top of a piston in a two-stroke-cycle engine, used to deflect the incoming mixture upward and divert it from the exhaust port. (d) A plate in the forward section of a pitot tube, used to reduce turbulence in the tube and to prevent dirt, moisture, etc., from entering the system. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | A cross wall, set of vanes or guides, a grid, grating or similar device placed in a conduit to check eddy currents below them, and to effect a more uniform distribution of velocities and to dissipate energy. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A wall, set of vanes, grid, etc. placed in a conduit to check eddy currents and dissipate energy. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | An element placed in the arc path and having no separate external connection. It may influence the flow of gas or vapour, influence the flow of radiant energy, influence the distribution of current, help to de-ionise the gas or vapour after conduction or reduce the deposition of active material on other surfaces. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | A device, such as a steel plate, used to check, retard, or divert a flow of a material. (references) |
Environment | A flat board or plate, deflector, guide, or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities to absorb energy and to divert, guide, or agitate liquids. (references) |
| Any deflector device used to change the direction of flow or the velocity of water, sewage or products of combustion such as fly ash or coarse particule matter. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Labor | Device used to reduce noise. Source: European Union. (references) |
Language | A device or structure (as a vane or partition) for preventing the passage of, deflecting, or regulating the intensity of light. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Baffle To erase the cognisance of a recreant knight. To degrade a knight from his rank. To be knocked about by the winds. "I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here." Shakespeare: Richard II, act i. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | A system of cooled walls, plates, or tubing placed near the inlet of a vapor pump to condense backstreaming vapor at a temperature below that of the room and return the fluid to the boiler. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Small receptacle in oil tank for hot or diluted oil to assist cold-weather start. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Medicine | Flat panel or slab of acoustic absorbent material hung vertically in a grid or egg crate pattern just above the machines. It helps to reduce the length of echo(or reverberation)ans so reduce the noise level. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Wall in a structure which serves to strenghten, divide or help give shape to the structure. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: BaffleSynonyms: baffle board (n), amaze (v), beat (v), bewilder (v), bilk (v), cross (v), dumbfound (v), flummox (v), foil (v), frustrate (v), get (v), gravel (v), mystify (v), nonplus (v), perplex (v), puzzle (v), queer (v), regulate (v), scotch (v), spoil (v), stupefy (v), stupify (v), thwart (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hindrance | Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck. |
Success | Silence, quell, nonsuit, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus, stalemate, trump; baffle; (hinder); circumvent, elude; trip up, trip up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put one's nose out of joint. |
Unconformity | Verb: be uncomformable; Adjective: abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description. |
Wonder | Be wonderful; Adjective: beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief. |
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Crosswords: Baffle |
| English words defined with "baffle": baffle board ♦ diffuser, diffusor ♦ To do for, To fling off. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "baffle": acoustic baffle ♦ Baffle Chamber, baffle piers, baffle plate, baffle tube, baffle wall, baffled outlet pipe drop, BATTERY ASSEMBLER, PLASTIC ♦ CABINET ASSEMBLER, CASTING-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ DUST-COLLECTOR OPERATOR ♦ FARM-MACHINE TENDER, FARMWORKER, MACHINE, feeding baffle, French paradox ♦ infinite baffle, inglis type fall ♦ Poona type fall ♦ refrigerated trap, right ♦ Val separator ♦ Weaving. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Baffle" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (baffle, speaker). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Baffle (1973) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Facts, however, are stubborn, and hard to baffle. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like. The first of these rights was once universally believed to be derived directly from the will of God; and this is still sometimes affirmed in partibus infidelium outside the enlightened realms of Democracy; as the well known lines of Sir Abednego Bink, following: By what right, then, do royal rulers rule? Whose is the sanction of their state and pow'r? He surely were as stubborn as a mule Who, God unwilling, could maintain an hour His uninvited session on the throne, or air His pride securely in the Presidential chair. Whatever is is so by Right Divine; Whate'er occurs, God wills it so. Good land! It were a wondrous thing if His design A fool could baffle or a rogue withstand! If so, then God, I say (intending no offence) Is guilty of contributory negligence. |
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| "Baffle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.06% of the time. "Baffle" is used about 49 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 53.06% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 36.73% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.2% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 49 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "baffle": acoustic baffle ♦ baffle all description ♦ baffle board ♦ baffle description ♦ baffle paint ♦ baffle pier ♦ baffle piers ♦ baffle plate ♦ baffle wall ♦ infinite baffle. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "baffle": baffle-board, baffle-curtain, baffle-plate, baffle-wall. | |
Ending with "baffle": V-baffle. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
baffle curtain | 388 |
baffle | 40 |
squirrel baffle | 21 |
baffle de diseño | 9 |
baffle compensation step | 6 |
baffle infinite sub woofer | 6 |
baffle open | 5 |
baffle ball | 4 |
baffle light | 3 |
baffle speaker | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "baffle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prish (alloy, annul, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), pengoj (arrest, balk, baulk, block, clog, cross, cumber, delay, detain, embarrass, encumber, estop, foil, forbid, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hedge in, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, interfere, interfere with, interrupt, jam, keep away from, let, obstruct, occlude, oppose, preclude, prevent, prohibit, resist, set back, shut in, stumble, trammel, traverse, trouble), hutoj (abash, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, dash, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, disorient, disorientate, distract, floor, flummox, mystify, overwhelm, perplex, pose, puzzle, wilder), disfatë (bad luck, defeat, defection, discomfiture, licking, loss, overturn, reverse, rout). (various references) | |
Arabic | ناضل عبثا, حير (befog, bewilder, confound, distract, floor, flummox, fluster, mystify, nonplus, perplex, put off one's fears, puzzle, riddle, vex), عاق (balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, disturb, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), صد (alienation, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, repulsion, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off), التحيير, الصد (repulsion), الإرباك, أربك (bamboozle, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bother, buffalo, confound, confuse, demoralize, discompose, disconcert, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, floor, fluster, fox, fret, fuddle, gravel, molest, muckrake, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, ravel, show up, squirm, stop, stumble, stump, vex). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смайвам (amaze, bedazzle, dazzle, dismay, dumbfound, flabbergast, kill, knock, knock out, rock, stagger, stun), възспирам (check, stem, stop), осуетявам (abort, disappoint, foil, frustrate, mock, pour cold water on, scatter, scotch, short circuit, sink, spoil, wash out), отбивам (beat back, beat off, resist, serve, stop), обърквам (abash, addle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), неуспех (down, failure, fiasco, fizzle, miscarriage, mishap, repulse, reverse, slip up, unsuccess), заглушител (damper, muffler, noise-killer, silencer), забърквам (complicate, embroil, involve, mix up, muff, perplex, snarl up, tangle), боря се напразно, променям течението на, преграда (barricade, bulkhead, compartment, division, hedge, hurdle, interception, obstruction, occlusion, partition, railing, screen, septum, stanchion, traverse, web), поражение (backdown, beating, defeat, failure, injury, knockout, lesion, overturn, repulse, reverse, smash, walloping, whipping), попречвам на (discourage, head off, short circuit, snag, weigh against, withhold). (various references) | |
Chinese | 羞辱 (humiliate), (whetstone), 挡板. (various references) | |
Czech | zvuková přepážka, zmařit (crush, destroy, ditch, foil, frustrate, scotch, stave off, thwart, upset), zmást (bewilder, confound, confuse, disconcert, maze, mix up, nonplus, non-plus, obfuscate, perplex, puzzle, stick up, stump, stupefy), tlumit (absorb, damp, muffle, mute, temper), překazit (confound, queer, set back, thwart, upset), mást. (various references) | |
Danish | baffel (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), lydskærm, forhindring (baffle wall, obstruction), lamel (batten, louvre, slat, slats), ledeblik, ledeskærm, aftipningsvogn (plow, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear), lyddæmper (silencer), vinge (ala, blade, paddle, scraper, vane, wing), lydskaerm, prelplade (baffle plate, baffle-plate, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector plate), skillevaeg (baffle plate, baffle-plate, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector plate, partition, partition wall, septum), skovl (blade, board, bucket, dipper, door, otter board, paddle, rotor blade, scraper, shovel, small trough, spade, trawl board, trawl door, trough, vane), spjaeld (damper, louvre), spredivinge (blade, paddle, scraper, vane), lydbaffel (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel). (various references) | |
Dutch | baffle (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), leischot (bulkhead, partition), geleider (attendant, bus, conductor, conduit, convoy man, convoyer, guide, leader, pilot, upright), geluidsscherm, hangende geluidsabsorberende elementen (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), hindernis (baffle wall, handicap, impediment, obstacle, obstruction), keerplaat (hopper), afwerpwagen (plow, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear), leiplaat (baffle plate, baffle-plate, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector plate), weerstand (baffle wall, conductance, drag, high-impedance, high-resistive, resistance, resistor, strength), luchtklep (air-valve, breather valve, disk of a swing check valve, louvre, snifter valve, snifting valve, swing-type check mechanism, vacuum relief valve, valve clack of a check valve, valve flap of a check valve), roerblad (blade, paddle, scraper, vane), scherm (accident shiel, armour plate, canopy, curtain, screen, shade, shelter, shield, shielding, thick-film screen, umbel), schermplaat (guard plate, plate guard, plate type guard, protecting screen, protective shield, screen, shield), schoep (blade, finger, fixed blade, flicker, paddle, scraper, stationary blade, stator blade, vane), schoep van een loopwiel (blade, paddle, scraper, vane), turbulentieregelaar (louvre), keerschot (baffle plate, baffle-plate, deflecting blades, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector plate). (various references) | |
Farsi | پریشانی (Bother, Depression, Distress, Dolor, Nonplus, Ramble, Remorse, Turmoil, Woe), مغشوش کردن (Rile, Unsettle), گیج یاگمراه کردن , اهانت (Contempt, Disdain, Disrespect, Impertinence, Insolence, Offense), دستپاچه کردن (Shend), بی نتیجه کردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | vaimennusseinämä (baffle wall), väliseinä (bridge, bridgewall, diaphragm, partition, septum), ohjauslevy (deflecting blades), läppä (clapper, leaf, valve), kehys (acoustic baffle, border, cadre, casing, chassis, collector box, enclosure, frame, framework, framing, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel, rack, raster, skeleton), akustinen erotuslevy (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), äänenvaimennin (muffler, silencer). (various references) | |
French | déflecteur (baffle plate), baffle (acoustic baffle, baffle plate). (various references) | |
German | umlenkblech, verblüffen (amaze, astound, bamboozle, bewilder, confound, dazzle, dumfound, flabbergasted, flummox, Fox, nonplus, perplex, stump, stun, stupefy, to amaze, to baffle, to dumbfound, to flabbergast, to flummox, to puzzle, to stump, to stupefy). (various references) | |
Greek | πτερύγιο (ala, barb, bead flipper, blade, cant, cant of tumbler, cutting blade, feather, fin, finger, flail, flailing hammer, flap, flash, flicker, flipper, gill, paddle, pavilion, pinion, pterygium, rotor blade, scraper, side, side of a tumbler, swinging flail, twig, vane, wing), διάφραγμα (acoustic baffle, aperture, bulkhead, camera shutter, collimator, diaphragm, functional absorber, membrane, midriff, partition, pendant absorptive panel, septum, shutter), διάφραγμα-εκτροπέας (hopper), θυρίδα (counter, hatch, locker, obturator, slot, valve, wicket), ανακλαστήρας (mirror, reflector, reflector lens, reflector-mirror, reflex reflector, repeller, retro-reflector, specular reflector), επίπεδο διάφραγμα (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), εκτροπέας (adjustable shield, baffle plate, blast deflector, canopy, cover, deflector, flap, hoe shield, hopper, impact plate, impact surface, open shield, outlet, rear flap, safety shield, shield, splah plate, turning vane), εκφεύγω, ηχοαπορροφητικό πλαίσιο (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), διαχωριστικό (bulkhead, cubicle division, distance spacer, partition, septum, spacer), χώρισμα (cubicle, divide, forage side, louvre, parting, partition, partition wall, septum, siding, silage side, slatted silage side), κάδος (bin, blade, bucket, cask, churn, cylinder vat, draw bucket, drinking bowl, hogshead, paddle, pail, pan, scraper, skip, small trough, tank, trough, tub, US:cup, vane, vat), πλαγιστό χώρισμα (baffle plate, baffle-plate, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector plate), πλάκα απόκλισης (baffle plate, baffle-plate, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector plate), περσίδα (louvre, shutter, ventilator), μπουλμπές (bulkhead, partition), μπλέκω (embroil, entangle, get fast, involve), μπερδεύω (bemuse, complicate, confound, confuse, enmesh, jumble, kink, mix up, muddle), βαγονέτο εκφόρτωσης (plow, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear), στοιχείον ηρεμήσεως (baffle wall), συσκευή απόσβεσης θορύβου, φέρω σε αμηχανία (confound). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"ביך (abash, bewilder, confound, disconcert, embarrass, maze, nonplus, perplex, show up), לסכל (balk, baulk, circumvent, foil, frustrate, make foolish, stultify, thwart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zavarba ejt (bewilder, disorientate, to baffle, to disorient, to disorientate, to mystify, to stump), tûzpart, meghiúsít (circumvent, disconcert, frustrate, to baffle, to blight, to circumvent, to confute, to disappoint, to disconcert, to dislocate, to foil, to frustrate, to maim, to rot, to shatter, to stultify, to thwart, to trip). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengherankan (be astonishing, cause amazement), menggagalkan (cause to fail, foil, wreck), mempercengangkan (amaze, astonish, confound, perplex). (various references) | |
Italian | diaframma (aperture, bladder, bladder tank, diaphragm, limiter, midriff, pessary), deflettore (baffle plate, baffle-plate, blast deflector, bulkhead, canopy, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector chute, deflector plate, delivery, fishtail, outlet, partition, scoop, splah plate, splash plate, spoiler, spray plate, turning vane). (various references) | |
Korean | 배". (various references) | |
Manx | skian (aegis, mudguard, pinion, wing), molley (bafflement, beguile, bluff, cajole, captivate, cheering, deceit, deceive, deception, disappoint, disappointment, foil, fool, impose, imposition, trick), cur dellid er. (various references) | |
Norwegian | forvirre, forpurre (foil, frustrate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | afflebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | iludir (avoid, beguile, bluff, bypass, catch, cheat, deceive, delude, dodger, double cross, elude, ensoul, evade taxes, hocus pocus, humbug, impose, lie, mystify, outwit, sklent, trick, wile), antepara (bulkhead, louvre), chicana (baffle plate, baffle-plate, chicane, deflecting plate, deflector, deflector plate), confundir (addle, astonish, astound, befog, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, confusing, confute, daze, dazzle, disarray, disconcert, distracted, dizzy, dumbfound, embarrass, embrasure, embroil, flabbergast, floor, flummox, flurry, fluster, fog, gravel, interfuse, intermingle, jumble, maze, mistake for, mix up, moider, muddle, muddy, Mull, nonplus, obfuscate, obscure, overwhelm, perplex, put out, puzzle, rattle, Ravel, stagger), confundir, deixar perplexo, confusão (abashment, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confounding, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfort, discomposure, disturbed, Donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul up, fuddle, hash, hodge-podge, hotchpotch, hubbub, huddle, hugger mugger, hurry, hurry-scurry, imbrue, intricate, involution, involvement, jumble, kettledrum, labyrinth, macaronic, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell mell, perplexity, perturbation, pother, puddle, puzzle, Ravel, rough and tumble, rout, shuffle, situation whereby one and the same person unites two capacities for example debtor-creditor, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), contratempo;sonoflector;placa defletora, deflector (baffle plate, blast deflector, bumper, canopy, deflector, deflector chute, delivery, fishtail, gob deflector, gob interceptor, gob knocker, impact plate, impact surface, louvre, outlet, splah plate, splash plate, spray plate, triangular end sill, turning vane), desconcertar (abash, appal, beat, derange, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, dismay, disorderly, flummox, outface, put off, puzzle), desorientar (addle, bewilder, disorientate, disown, disturb, dizzy, flap, flummox, fluster, gravel road, mazer, muddy, nonplus, perplex, perturb, puzzle, stun), aleta (blade, fin, flyer, paddle, scraper, vane, wing), guarda-fogo (fenian, louvre), vagoneta de descarga (plow, throw-off carriage, throw-off gear), lutar em vão, mudar de direção (swerve, whiffle), pá (blade, chuck, paddle, rotor blade, scoop, scraper, shovel, spade, vane), painel acústico suspenso (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), perplexidade (abashment, astonishment, flinch, knot, maze, maziness, minded, nonplus, perplexity, pucker, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary), placa deflectora (bulkhead, partition), trampolim-deflector, tranquilizador (baffle wall), tremonha (feed hopper, grain bin, grain tank, hopper, inlet tray, intake hopper, loading hopper, receiving hopper, tanker, trough), despistar (foil, outwit). (various references) | |
Romanian | zadarnici, deruta (confuse, discomfit, entangle, foil, mislead, scatter), dejuca (balk, baulk, counterwork, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, foil, frustrate, shatter, thwart), înduce în eroare. (various references) | |
Russian | ставить в тупик (bewilder, confound, floor, perplex, pose), расстраивать (blow up, defeat, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, distune, disturb, faze, frustrate, shatter, thwart, unnerve, unsettle, untune, upset), боровок. (various references) | |
Scottish | fairtlich , fairslich, artlaich. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zbuniti (abash, addle, befuddle, bemuse, bepuzzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, distract, embarrass, faze, maze, nonplus, perplex, perturb, pose, puzzle, rattle, stick, stump), pregraditi (bar, block, dam, partition), pregrada (barrage, barrier, bulkhead, closure, divider, division, partition, screen, septum, stall), žleb (fillister, groove, gutter, rabbet). (various references) | |
Spanish | pantalla acústica (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), deflector (adjustable shield, baffle plate, baffler, blast deflector, bumper, canopy, cover, cut slice, deflector, deflector chute, delivery, fishtail, flap, furrow slice, gob deflector, gob interceptor, gob knocker, hoe shield, hood, open shield, outlet, protective tunnel, rear flap, safety shield, scoop, shield, skimmer slice, skimmer split, splah plate, splash plate, spoiler, spray plate, tent shield, turning vane). (various references) | |
Swedish | baffel (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), trotsa (affront, bid defiance to, brave, challenge, defy, elude, evade, flout, mock, outface, scorn, stand up to), strömningshinder (baffle wall), strållyftare (baffle wall), ljudskärm (acoustic baffle, functional absorber, pendant absorptive panel), ljuddämpare (muffler, noise-killer, silencer), ledskärm, klaff (finger-hole, flap, key, leaf, louvre), förvirra (addle, bamboozle, befog, bemuse, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, disorient, disorientate, distract, dizzy, embarrass, flummox, flurry, fluster, fuddle, gravel, Kittle, perplex, unsettle, upset), förbrylla (confound, confuse, flummox, Fox, intrigue, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stump). (various references) | |
Thai | แทรกเข้ามาควบคุม (การไหลของก๊าซ, การส่งคลื่นเสียงหรือแสง), ทำให้งุนงง (boggle). (various references) | |
Turkish | bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), boşa çıkarmak (blight, cancel, defeat, disappoint, fail, frustrate, invalidate, prick the bubble, puncture, shoot down), zor gelmek, engel olmak (balk, be in smb.'s road, bind, blanket, clip one's wings, debar, encumber, estop, forbid, frustrate, hamper, handicap, hinder, intercept, interfere with, militate against, Nix, obstruct, oppose, prevent, prohibit, put a spoke in smb.'s wheel, put a stay on, put back, put off, scotch, shackle, thwart), şaşkına çevirmek, şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, rattle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow), önlemek (arrest, avert, avoid, bank, circumvent, counterwork, estop, face up to, foil, foreclose, forestall, frustrate, get under control, head off, intercept, jugulate, keep back, obviate, occlude, preclude, prevent, prevent from, prohibit, repress, stay, suppress, thwart, ward, ward off). (various references) | |
Ukranian | спанталичувати, руйнувати (attack, blight, cast down, confound, demolish, destroy, devour, dilapidate, disappoint, explode, havoc, ruin, shake down, wrack, wreck), розстроювати (derange, detune, disorder, distune, frustrate, overset, unnerve, upset), розчарування (balk, disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, frustration, sell), глушитель (baffler, damper, muffler, silencer), відкидати (abnegate, balk, brush away, cast aside, cast away, deny, disapprove, discard, divest, doff, forswear, jettison, negate, negative, non-concur, override, overturn, push back, rebut, reject, reprobate, repudiate, set aside, throw aside, throw away, toss aside, turn down, wave aside, wave away), обманювати (bam, beguile, begunk, betray, bluff, bubble, buffalo, cheat, chouse, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, gouge, impose, mountebank, swindle, trick, victimize), невдача (abortion, bad, defection, down, fail, failing, flop, ill luck, infelicity, miscarriage, mischance, mishap, no go, setback), марно боротися, зганьбити, заважати (balk, clog, cut across, embar, embarrass, empeach, hinder, impeach, incommode, interfere, obscure, obstruct, preclude, prohibit), збивати з пуття (mislead), перешкоджати (balk, bar, barrier in, baulk, block, check, clog, counteract, cumber, debar, discourage, forbid, handicap, impede, inhibit, militate, prevent, set back, tie up, trammel), перешкода (back-set, balk, bar, barricade, barrier, block, bridle, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, cramp, cumber, dike, disability, discouragement, drawback, dyke, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, hitch, hold back, interference, leap, marplot, nuisance, obex, objection, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor, preclusion, pullback, stop, trammels, traverse, wall), перепона (barricade, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, obstructive, occlusor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | van đổi hướng (baffle-plate), sự cản trở (check, countercherk, delay, encumbrance, hardihood, holdback, incumbrance, let). (various references) | |
Welsh | trechu (conquer, overcome, overpower), siomi (balk, belie, deceive, disappoint, thwart), drysu (be confused, bewilder, perplex, tangle). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | effugere, effugerent, effugeret, effugerunt, effugi, effugiant, effugiat, effugiemus, effugient, effugies, effugiet, effugisti, effugit, effugiunt, ineffugibilem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "baffle": baffled, bafflegab, bafflegabs, bafflement, bafflements, baffler, bafflers, baffles. (additional references) | |
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"Baffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bafal, bafel, baff, baffe, baffel, baufle, beffle, buffel, Buffie, bufflo, Caffell, Daffley, saffle, yaffle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "baffle" (pronounced ba"ful) |
| 4 | -a" f u l | raffle. |
| 3 | -f u l | apocryphal, artful, awful, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disdainful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, mournful, muffle, needful, neglectful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-f-l" | |
-1 letter: fable. | |
-2 letters: able, alef, baff, bale, blae, feal, flab, flea, leaf. | |
-3 letters: aff, alb, ale, bal, bel, eff, elf, lab, lea. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, al, ba, be, ef, el, fa, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-f-l" | |
+1 letter: affable, baffled, baffler, baffles, effable. | |
+2 letters: bafflers, buffable. | |
+3 letters: affixable, bafflegab, buffaloed, buffaloes, ineffable, ineffably. | |
+4 letters: affectable, affirmable, affordable, bafflegabs, bafflement, bufflehead, effaceable, sufferable, sufferably. | |
+5 letters: bafflements, buffleheads, falsifiable, forfeitable, trafficable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 66 66 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- ..-. ..-. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a f f l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0066 0066 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366772727871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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