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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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eye

/ʌɪ/

US pronunciation
American sound/ʌɪ/
eye
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

US voice -> eye

Myanmar meaning

(n) မျက်စိ။ မျက်လုံး။ မျက်လုံးအရောင်။ အမြင်အား။ မျက်စကောင်းခြင်း။ မျက်စိလျင် ခြင်း။ မြင်တတ်ခြင်း။ မျက်စိနှင့် တူသော အပေါက်၊ အဖု။ (v) ကြည့်သည်။

Full entry

eye /aÇ/ n

၁။ (က) မျက်စိ။ မျက်လုံး။
I can't see out of this eye. ❍ She opened/ closed her eyes. ❍ He is blind in one eye. ❍ He lost an eye in the war. ❍ I have something in my eye. ❍ have an eye operation ❍ His eyes fell upon (ie He suddenly noticed) an advertisement in the magazine.
(ခ) မျက်လုံးအရောင်။ have blue eyes.
၂။ (က) [often pl ] အမြင်အား။ မျက်စိကောင်းခြင်း။
You must have sharp eyes to be able to spot such a tiny detail. ❍ The eyes often deteriorate as one gets older. (ခ) [usu sing ] မျက်စိလျင် ခြင်း။ မြင်တတ်ခြင်း။ To her expert eye, the painting was clearly a fake. ❍ She has a good eye for a bargain.
၃။ မျက်စိနှင့် တူသော အပေါက်၊ အဖု။
The eye of a needle (ie the hole for the thread to go through) ❍ a hook and eye (ie a fastening with a hook and loop for a dress, etc) ❍ the eye of a potato (ie a point from which a shoot will grow).
v (pres p eyeing or eying ) ကြည့်သည်။ He eyed me curiously/ warily. ❍ The children were eyeing the sweets hungrily.
❏ be all eyes [IDM ] စူးစူးစိုက်စိုက်ကြည့်သည်။ စိတ်ဝင်တစား ပြုံကြည့်သည်။
The children were all eyes as we slowly unwrapped the parcel.
❏ clap/ lay/ set eyes on sb/ sth [IDM ] (infml ) မြင်သည်။ ကြည့်သည်။ I disliked the place the moment I clapped eyes on it. ❍ I hope I never set eyes on him again.
❏ my eye [IDM ] (infml ) (လက်မခံကြောင်း၊ မယုံကြောင်း ပြသောစကား)။ အဓိပ္ပာယ်မရှိလိုက်တာ။ အလကား။ မဟုတ်က ဟုတ်က။ သွားစမ်းပါ။
She said she was only twenty-two — twenty-two my eye!
❏ eye-catching adj
ထင်းခနဲမြင်သာသော။ မျက်စိကို ဖမ်းစားသော။
an eye-catching dress/ poster.
❏ -eyed (forming compound adjs )
မျက်လုံး …နှင့်။ a blue-eyed girl ❍ a one-eyed man. See also BLACK EYE, PRIVATE EYE
❏ an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) [IDM ] သူ့နည်းအတိုင်းထပ်တူ တုံ့ပြန်လက်စားချေမှု။ The death penalty for murder works on the principle of an eye for an eye.
❏ eye-level adj မျက်စိနှင့် တည့်တည့်ဖြစ်သော။ မျက်စိနှင့် တစ်တန်းတည်း။ The oven has an eye level grill.
❏ eye-liner (also liner ) n လိုင်နာတောင့်။
❏ the eye of the storm [IDM ] မုန်တိုင်းဗဟိုချက် ဖြစ်သည့် လေငြိမ်ရပ်။
❏ eye-opener n မျက်စိဖွင့်ပေးလိုက်သော၊ အမြင်ကျယ်စေသော အတွေ့အကြုံ။ My trip to India was quite an eye-opener.
❏ sb's eyes are bigger than their stomach [IDM ] (saying ) ဗိုက်အိုးထက် လောဘမျက်စိ ကြီးသည်။
❏ eye-shadow n [C, U] မျက်ခွံဆိုးဆေးတောင့်။
❏ eye strain n [U] မျက်စိညောင်းညာခြင်း။
❏ eye- tooth n (pl eye-teeth ) စွယ်သွား။ Compare CANINE n
❏ eye sb up [phrv ] (infml ) စိတ်ဝင်တစားကြည့်သည်။ I could see that she was eying me up as a potential customer.
❏ for sb's eye's only [IDM ] တစ်ဦးတည်း သီးသန့် ဖတ်ရှု ရန်။ The top secret file was marked 'for the President's eyes only'.
❏ get one's eye in [IDM ] (Brit ) အလေ့အကျင့်ရ၍ ဘောလုံး ဘယ်ရောက်ရောက် မြင်တတ်သွားသည်။ Once I'd got my eye in, I started to play better.
❏ give one's eye-teeth for sth [IDM ] လိုချင်သည်။ ရှိချင် သည်။ ပိုင်ချင်သည်။ I'd give my eye-teeth to own a car like that.
❏ have/ with an eye for/ on/ to the main chance [IDM ] (Brit ) (ငွေ)ရပေါက်ရလမ်း မြင်တတ်သည်။
❏ have one's eye on sb [IDM ] မျက်လုံးဒေါက်ထောက် ကြည့်သည်။ I've got my eye on you, so you'd better behave.
❏ have one's eye on sth [IDM ] မျက်စိကျသည်။ I'm thinking of buying a car — there's a nice new model I've got my eye on.
❏ have eyes in the back of one's head [IDM ] မျက်စိရှင် သည်။ မြင်တတ်သည်။ How did you know I was behind you? You must have eyes in the back of your head.
❏ have/ with an eye to sth/ doing sth [IDM ] အကြံရှိ သည်။ ရည်ရွယ်သည်။ He always has an eye to business (ie looks for a chance of doing business). ❍ He kept the customer talking with an eye to selling him something else.
❏ have/ with half an/ one eye on sth [IDM ] အာရုံတခြား ရောက်လျက်။ စိတ်မပါ့တပါ။ I only had half an eye on the programme because Iwas reading the paper.
❏ in the eyes of sb/ in sb's eyes [IDM ] …အမြင်၌။ In the eyes of the critics, he can do no wrong.
❏ in the eyes of the law, world, etc [IDM ] …ရှုထောင့်မှ ကြည့်လျှင်။ In the eyes of the law she is guilty though few ordinary people would think so.
❏ keep an eye on sb/ sth [IDM ] စောင့်ကြည့်သည်။ ကြည့်ထားသည်။ Could you keep an eye on my suitcase for a moment?
❏ keep an eye open/ out (for sb/ sth) [IDM ] (infml ) သတိထား၍ ကြည့်သည်။ ဂရုတစိုက် ရှာကြည့်သည်။ I've lost my ring — could you keep an eye out for it when you clean the house?
❏ keep one's eyes peeled/ skinned (for sb/ sth) [IDM ] စူးစူးစိုက်စိုက် သေသေချာချာ ကြည့်သည်။ အထူး သတိထားကြည့်သည်။ She walked along slowly, keeping her eyes peeled/ skinned for any unusual flowers.
❏ look sb in the eye(s) face [IDM ] စေ့စေ့ကြည့်သည်။ မျက်နှာတည့်တည့်ကြည့်သည်။ မျက်လုံးချင်း ဆိုင်ကြည့်သည်။ Can you look me in the eye and tell me you're not lying? ❍ He couldn't bear to look her in the face.
❏ make eyes at sb [IDM ] ကြာကြည့်ကြည့်သည်။ ကြာပစ် သည်။ မျက်စပစ်သည်။ He made eyes at her across the room.
❏ never/ not (be able to) take one's eyes off sb/ sth [IDM ] မျက်တောင်မခတ် စိုက်ကြည့်သည်။ မျက်စိအောက်က အပျောက်မခံ ကြည့်သည်။ She never took her eyes off him the whole evening.
❏ one in the eye (for sb/ sth) [IDM ] (infml ) ဆုံးရှုံးမှု။ စိတ်ပျက်လက်ပျက်ဖြစ်စရာ။ လက်မှိုင်ချခြင်း။ If she gets the job, it'll be one in the eye for Peter: he thought he was bound to get it.
❏ only have eyes for/ have eyes only for sb [IDM ] တစ်မိုးအောက်တစ်ယောက် ထင်သည်။ သူမှသူ တမ်းတမ်းစွဲ ကြိုက်သည်။ It's no use asking Kim to go out with you: she only has eyes for Mark.
❏ (not) see eye to eye with sb [IDM ] သဘောချင်း (မ)တိုက်ဆိုင်။ အမြင်(မ)တူ။ Jim and I have always seen eye to eye on politics ❍ She left because she didn't see eye to eye with her boss.
❏ see, look at, etc sth through sb's eyes [IDM ] သူ့နေရာက ဝင်ကြည့်သည်။ သူ့ရှုထောင့်က ကြည့်သည်။ ။ If you saw the situation through my eyes, you'd realize why I'm so angry.
❏ shut/ close one's eyes to sth [IDM ] မမြင်ကျိုးကျွန်၊ မသိကျိုးကျွန်ပြုသည်။ မျက်နှာလွှဲထားသည်။ The government shuts its eyes to poverty. ❍ She closed her eyes to her husband's infidelities.
❏ with one's eyes open [IDM ] (ဘာဖြစ်လာနိုင် မယ်ဆိုတာ) သိပြီးသား။ သိသိကြီးနှင့်။ သိလျက်နှင့်။ I moved to this country with my eyes open, so I'm not complaining.
❏ with one's eyes shut/ closed [IDM ]
၁။ မျက်စိမှိတ်လျက် (လုပ်နိုင်သည်)။ (ငှက်ပျောသီး အခွံနွှာ စားရသလို) လွယ်လွယ် ကလေး။ He's cooked that meal so often he can do it with his eyes closed.
၂။ ဘာသိဘာသာ။ နမော်နမဲ့။ If you go around with your eyes shut, you never learn anything about life.

More examples
  • Close your eyes and go to sleep.
  • He gazed into her eyes as she spoke.
  • The suspect is in his twenties, with blond hair and blue eyes.
  • These bacteria are invisible to our eyes.
  • He spoke to her with slight amusement in his eyes.
  • She smiled excitedly, her eyes gleaming.
  • [eye on] : I fixed my eye on the clock.
  • Just try to keep your eyes on the prize and you'll never fail.
  • Every country watches a US presidential contest with an eye on its own interests.
Synonyms
look at, stare at, judgment, gaze at, watch, observe, eyeball, ogle, appreciation, baby blue, belief, blinder, check out, consider, contemplate, conviction, discernment, discrimination, eagle eye, eye up, feeling, gape, give the eye, glance at, have a look, headlight, inspect, keep eagle eye on, lamp, leer, mind, ocular, oculus, ophthalmic, opinion, optic, peeper, perception, perceptiveness, persuasion, peruse, pie, point of view, recognition, regard, rubberneck, scan, scrutinize, scrutiny, sense, sentiment, size up, study, surveillance, survey, tab, take a look, take in, taste, view, viewpoint
Antonyms
disbelief, disbelieve, disinclination, disregard, forget, ignore, indifference, look away, neglect, overlook
Cross references
look atstare atjudgmentgaze atwatchobserveeyeballogleappreciationbaby bluebeliefblindercheck outconsidercontemplateconvictiondiscernmentdiscriminationeagle eyeeye upfeelinggapegive the eyeglance athave a lookheadlightinspectkeep eagle eye on
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