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not see the wood for the trees

US pronunciation
American soundnot see the wood for the trees
notseethewoodforthe
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not - see - the - wood - for - the -> not see the wood for the trees

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wood /wƱd/ n

၁။ (က) [U] သစ်သား။
(ခ) သစ်။ သစ်သား။ Most furniture is made of wood. ❍ He chopped some wood for the fire. ❍ wood-carving ❍ a wood floor. See also FIRE-WOOD
(ဂ) [C] (အမာ၊ အပျော့) သစ်အမျိုးအစား။ Pine is a soft wood. See also HARDWOOD,SOFTWOOD
၂။ [C often pl ] တော။ သစ်တော။ go for a walk in the wood(s).
၃။ [C] (sport ) ဒိုးကဲ့သို့ လှိမ့်ကစားရသော သစ်သား ဘောလုံး။
၄။ [C] သစ်သားခေါင်းတပ် ဂေါက်ရိုက်တုတ်။ Compare IRON n ၄, DEAD WOOD
❏ from the wood [IDM ] စည် (ဘီယာ၊ အရက်)။ beer from the wood.
❏ not see the wood for the trees [IDM ] သစ်တစ်ပင်ချင်း ကိုမြင်ပြီး၊ တောတစ်ခုလုံးကိုမမြင်။ If you add too many notes to the text, the reader won't be able to see the wood for the trees.
❏ out of the wood(s) [IDM ] (infml ) (usu with a negative) အခြေအနေဆိုးမှ လွတ်မြောက်သည်။ She's regained consciousness, but she's not out of the woods (ie sure to recover) yet.
❏ wooded adj တောထူသော။ တောဖုံးသော။ a wooded valley.
❏ wooden /'wƱdn/ adj
၁။ သစ်သားနှင့်လုပ်သော။ သစ်သား …။ wooden furniture/ fences/ toys.
၂။ (လှုပ်ရှားမှု) အသက်မပါသော။ The acting was rather wooden, I thought.
❏ woodenly adv အသက်မပါဘဲ။ တောင့်တောင့်ကြီး။ The lines were delivered woodenly. woodenness n [U]
❏ the wooden spoon n [sing] (Brit infml ) ဘိတ်ဆုံးဆု။ ဗလာဆု။
❏ wood pulp n [U] သစ်သားပျော့ဖတ်။
❏ woody adj (က) တောထူသော။ a woody hillside. (ခ) သစ်သားနှင့်တူသော။ သစ်သားကဲ့သို့သော။ a plant with woody stems.

More examples
  • A piece of wood
  • The polished dark wood of an antique table
  • [cut/chop wood] : They stopped encouraging people to cut wood for fuel.
  • A wood floor
  • A wood stove
  • I often walk the dog in the woods behind our house.
Synonyms
timber, lumber, firewood, coppice, copse, covert, ebony, forest, grove, kindling, logs, planks, raven, thicket, timberland, trees, weald, wooden, woodland, woods
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timberlumberfirewoodcoppicecopsecovertebonyforestgrovekindlinglogsplanksraventhickettimberlandtreeswealdwoodenwoodlandwoodsableactingaddalsobeerbutcompareconsciousness
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