mortar meaning in Tamil
காரை kārai
UK/ˈmɔːtə/
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Australia/ˈmoːtə/
mortar in Tamil: காரை (kārai), கல்வம் (kalvam), உரல் (ural). In English, mortar means a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
Tamil words for mortar
- mixture of lime or cement, sand and water
- காரை kārai
- vessel used to grind ingredients
- கல்வம் kalvam, உரல் ural
English meaning of mortar
- noun A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- noun A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- noun A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- noun A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories.
mortar in a sentence
- The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
Synonyms of mortar
mortar in other languages
- mortar in Hindi
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- mortar in Urdu
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- mortar in Malayalam
- mortar in Kannada
- mortar in Punjabi
- mortar in Gujarati
- mortar in Odia
- mortar in Sanskrit
- mortar in Assamese
- mortar in Nepali
- mortar in Tagalog
- mortar in Arabic
- mortar in Malay
- mortar in Indonesian
- mortar in Persian
- mortar in Thai
- mortar in Vietnamese
Questions about mortar in Tamil
- What is the meaning of mortar in Tamil?
- Mortar in Tamil is காரை (kārai), கல்வம் (kalvam), உரல் (ural).
- mortar என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
- Mortar: காரை (kārai), கல்வம் (kalvam), உரல் (ural).
- What does mortar mean in English?
- Mortar means a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
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