reckoning |
حساب ۔ شمار ۔ |
(1) - Reckoning (n.) The position of a ship as determined by calculation. (2) - Reckoning (n.) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. (3) - Reckoning (n.) Esteem; account; estimation. (4) - Reckoning (n.) The charge or account made by a host at an inn. (5) - Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. (6) - Reckoning (n.) An account of time (7) - Reckoning (n.) The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. (8) - Reckoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reckon |
reclaim |
سدھارنا ۔ زمین پر کاشت لانا ۔ سنوارنا ۔ مہذب بنانا ۔ |
(1) - Reclaim (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. (2) - Reclaim (v. i.) To draw back; to give way. (3) - Reclaim (v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform. (4) - Reclaim (v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. (5) - Reclaim (v. t.) To exclaim against; to gainsay. (6) - Reclaim (v. t.) To correct; to reform; -- said of things. (7) - Reclaim (v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform. (8) - Reclaim (v. t.) Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc. (9) - Reclaim (v. t.) To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals. (10) - Reclaim (v. t.) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. (11) - Reclaim (v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. (12) - Reclaim (v. t.) To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. |