different between baft vs waft

English

Etymology 1

Preposition

baft

1. Alternative form of abaft

Adverb

baft (comparative more baft, superlative most baft)

1. Alternative form of abaft

Etymology 2

Noun

baft (countable and uncountable, plural bafts)

1. Alternative form of bafta (“type of material”)

Anagrams

• BATF

English

Etymology

From Middle English waften, of uncertain origin. Possibly from unattested Old English *wafettan, from wafian (“to wave”) +? -ettan, or perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch wachten (“to guard, provide for”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?ft
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /w?ft/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w?ft/
• (Received Pronunciation, dated) IPA^(key): /w??ft/
• (Regional American) IPA^(key): /wæft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Verb

waft (third-person singular simple present wafts, present participle wafting, simple past and past participle wafted)

1. (ergative) To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air.
2. (intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, London: [s.n.], OCLC 497010563, Act III, scene i; republished as “Aureng-Zebe, a Tragedy”, in Walter Scott, editor, The Works of John Dryden, now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author, by Walter Scott, Esq., volume V, London: Printed for William Miller, Albemarle Street, by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh, 1808, OCLC 317070632, page 226:

     Unhappy Aureng-Zebe is in disgrace; / And your Morat, proclaimed the successor, / Is called, to awe the city with his power. / Those trumpets his triumphant entry tell, / And now the shouts waft near the citadel.

3. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon.

Translations

Noun

waft (plural wafts)

1. A light breeze.
2. Something (such as an odor or scent like a perfume) that is carried through the air.
3. (nautical) A flag used to indicate wind direction or, with a knot tied in the center, as a signal; a waif, a wheft.

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