face

face / fes / n

၁။ မျက်နှာ။ a pretty / handsome face
❍ Go and wash your face. ❍ He was so ashamed that he hid his face in his hand. ❍ The ball hit him in the face. ❍ I saw many familiar/strange faces (ie people whom I recognized/did not recognize).
၂။ မျက်နှာ (ထား)။ a sad face ❍ smiling faces ❍ She had a face like thunder (ie She looked very angry).
၃။ (က) မျက်နှာပြင်။ A cut diamond has many faces. ❍ They disappeared from / off the face of the earth (ie totally disappeared). ❍ The team climbed the north face of the mountain. See also COALFACE
(ခ) တစ်စုံတစ်ခု၏ အဓိက မျက်နှာပြင်။ the face of a clock ❍ a clock- face ❍ He put the cards face up/down on the table (ie with the faces visible/not visible).
၄။ ရှုထောင့်။ ရှုထောင့်စုံ။ the many faces of criminal activity.
၅။ အပြင်ပန်းသဏ္ဌာန်။ preserve the face of an old town.
၆။ သဘောသဘာဝ။ developments that have changed the face of society.
၇။ = TYPEFACE
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၁။ မျက်နှာမူသည်။ မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်သည်။ Turn round and face me. ❍ They sat facing each other. ❍ The garden faces south.
၂။ မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်ရဲသည်။
He couldn't face his mother after he'd crashed the car. ❍ I can't face work today—I feel too ill.
၃။ ရင်ဆိုင်သည်။ you must face (the) facts—there's nothing you can do. ❍ She refuses to face the truth.
၄။ ရင်ဆိုင်ရသည်။ Several problems face the
government. ❍ The company is facing heavy losses.
၅။ ရင်ဆိုင်နေရသည်။ We are faced with a tricky
decision. ❍ The directors face charges of fraud.
၆။ ~ sth (with sth) (မျက်နှာပြင်ကို) လိမ်းကျံသည်။
face a wall with plaster. နံရံကို သရွတ်ကိုင်သည်။
❍ face the neckline of a blouse.
အကျႌလည်ပင်း အနားကွပ်သည်။
❏ face-card n (esp US) = COURT - CARD
❏ face-cloth n = FLANNEL ၂
❏ face-cream n [U,C] မိုးပွင့်။
❏ - faced (forming compound adjs ) … မျက်နှာရှိသော။
… ရုပ်ပေါက်သော။ red-faced ❍ baby-faced.
❏ one's face falls [IDM ] မျက်နှာပျက်သွားသည်။
မျက်နှာအိုသွားသည်။ Her face fell when she heard the news.
❏ face-lift n
၁။ မျက်နှာ နုပျိုအောင် ခွဲစိတ်ကုသမှု။
She only looks young because she's had a face-lift.
၂။ အဆောက်အအုံ စသည်ကို ပြုပြင်မွမ်းမံခြင်း။
The court-house certainly needs a face-lift.
❏ faceless adj မည်သူမည်ဝါ မခွဲနိုင်သော။
faceless bureaucrats.
❏ face the music [IDM ] (infml) ကိုယ်လုပ်ကိုယ်ခံ။ You've been caught cheating—now you must face the music.
❏ face-pack n မျက်နှာသန့်စင်ချောမွတ်စေသည့် လိမ်းစရာ။
(လိမ်းပြီးနောက် သုတ်ပစ်ရသည်။ )
❏ face-saving adj အသရေဆည်သော။
a face-saving compromise/ exercise/ formula.
❏ face to face (with sb/sth) [IDM ] လူချင်း တေ့တေ့ ဆိုင်ဆိုင်။ မျက်နှာချင်းဆိုင်။
I've always admired her acting and would love to meet
her face to face. ❍ He turned the corner and found himself face to face with a policeman.
❍ The two came/were brought face to face in a TV interview.
❏ face up to sth [PHRV ] မရှောင်လွှဲနိုင်၊ ရင်ဆိုင်ရသည်။ He must face up to the fact that he is no longer young. ❍ You've got to face up to your responsibilities.
❏ face value n [U,C] (ငွေ၊ တံဆိပ်ခေါင်း) တန်ဖိုးရင်း။
❏ have the face (to do sth) [IDM ] (Brit infml ) မျက်နှာပြောင်တိုက်ရဲသည်။ I don't know how you have the face to ask for more money when you do so little work.
❏ in the face of sth [IDM ]
၁။ (အခက်အခဲ အန္တရာယ်များ နှင့်) ရင်ဆိုင်ရသော်လည်း။ succeed in the face of danger ❍ continue in the face of criticism.
၂။ (အတိုက်အခိုက် တစ်ခုခုနှင့်) ရင်ဆိုင်ရသည့်အခါ။
We are powerless in the face of such a threat.
❏ let's face it [IDM ] (infml ) လက်ခံရမှာပဲ။ Let's face it, we won't win whatever we do.
❏ on the face of it [IDM ] (infml ) အပြင်ပန်းအရ။
အပေါ်ယံအားဖြင့်။ On the face of it, he seems to be telling the truth though I suspect he is hiding something. ❍ It's a wonderful offer on the face of it.
❏ pull / make faces / a face (at sb) [IDM ] မဲ့ရွဲ့ပြသည်။ He pulled a funny face behind the teacher's back
❍ Don't make a face like that—it's lovely soup!
❏ put a bold, brave, good etc face on sth [IDM ] ဣနြေ္ဒမပျက်။ မျက်နှာမပျက်။ Her exam results were disappointing but she tried to put a brave face on it.
❏ set one's face against sb/sth [IDM ] ဆန့်ကျင်ရန် သန္နိဋ္ဌာန်ချထား။ ဘူးဆိုဖရုံမသီးဘူး။ The government appears to have set its face against any reduction in taxes.
❏ to sb's face [IDM ] မျက်နှာစေ့စေ့ကြည့်ပြီး ဗြောင် (ပြောသည်)။ I was very angry and said so to his face.
❍ They called their teacher ‘Fatty’, but never to his face. Compare BEHIND SB’S BACK (BACK)
❏ take sth at (its) face value [IDM ]
မျက်မြင်အတိုင်း အဟုတ်အမှန်ဟုပြောသည်ကို လက်ခံ
ယုံကြည်သည်။
Taken at face value, the figures look very encouraging.
❍ You shouldn't take anything she says at face value.