plates

/pleɪt/

US pronunciation

American sound/pleɪt/

plates

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

pla - tes -> plates

Myanmar meaning

(n[pl]) ပန်းကန်ပြားများ

Full entry

plant /plɑ:nt; US plænt/ n

၁။ [C] (က) အပင်။ plant life ❍ Plants need light and water. (ခ) အပင်ငယ်မျိုး။ garden/flowering/indoor plants ❍ grow tomato plants. See also HOUSE-PLANT, POT PLANT
၂။ (က) [U] စက်ရုံ ပစ္စည်း။ plant hire (ie renting of machines or equipment) ❍ The firm has made a huge investment in new plant. (ခ) [C] စက်။ The farm has its own power plant.
၃။ [C] စက်ရုံ။ a car assembly plant ❍ a chemical plant ❍ a nuclear reprocessing plant. ❍ FACTORY
၄။ [C] (infml ) (က) (ဘိန်းပစ်ဖမ်းသကဲ့သို့) ထောင်ဖမ်းမှု။ He claimed that the drugs found in his house were a plant.
(ခ) သူလျှိုအဖြစ်ထည့်ထားသူ။ They discovered that he was a police plant. (ဂ) ပရိသတ်အတွင်း ဒလန်အဖြစ်ထည့်ထားသူ။ အလံရှူး။ There were several plants in the studio audience to start people laughing or clapping.
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၁။ (က) (သစ်ပင်၊ ပန်းပင်စသည်) စိုက်သည်။ plant flowers around the pool ❍ We planted beans and peas in the vegetable garden. ❍ Plant them in rows one metre apart. (ခ) ~ sth (with sth) (ဥယျာဉ်၊ စိုက်ခင်းစသည်) စိုက်သည်။ plant a garden ❍ plant the border with spring flowers ❍ mountain slopes planted with conifers. Compare SOW¹
၂။ (က) အခိုင်အမာတည်ထားသည်။ He planted his feet firmly on the ground. ❍ She stood with her feet planted wide apart. (ခ) (infml ) ထည့်သည်။ နေရာယူသည်။ plant a bomb on an aeroplane ❍ He planted himself in front of the fire.
၃။ (infml ) (က) ~ sth (on sb) ထောင်ဖမ်းသည်။ plant stolen goods on sb ❍ She claimed that the drugs had been planted (on her). (ခ) ~ sb (in sth) သူလျှိုထည့်သည်။ အလံရှူးထည့်သည်။ The police had planted a spy in the gang. ❍ The speaker's supporters had been planted in the audience and they applauded loudly.
၄။ ~ sth (in sth) ဦးနှောက်ထဲထည့်သည်။ အကြံပေးသည်။ plant doubts/suspicions/rumours ❍ Who planted that notion in your head?
၅။ နမ်းသည်။ မွှေးမွှေး ပေးသည်။ He planted a kiss on her cheek.
❏ planter n
၁။ (အပူပိုင်းဒေသများတွင်) ခြံစိုက်သူ။ ခြံရှင်။ ခြံသမား။ a sugar-planter/rubber-planter/tea-planter.
၂။ အစေ့စိုက်စက်။
၃။ ပျိုးအိုး။ a strawberry planter.
❏ plant sth out [PHRV ] ချဲစိုက်သည်။ plant out tomato seedlings.

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Synonyms

place, fix, stand, deposit, set, lodge, annual, apparatus, bed, biennial, bury, bush, conceal, cover, creeper, cutting, embed, equipment, establish, farm, flower, forge, found, foundry, frame somebody, gear, grass, greenery, grow, herb, herbal, hide, houseplant, imbed, implant, incriminate somebody, ingrain, insert, install, institute, introduce, machinery, manufactory, mill, park, perennial, pitch, plank, plank down, plop, plunk, pot, potted plant, put in, raise, replant, root, scatter, seed, seed down, seedling, set out, settle, shoot, shop, shop somebody, shrub, slip, sow, sprout, start, station, stock, transplant, tree, vegetable, vegetal, vine, weed, works, yard

Antonyms

abandon, animal, bipedal, creatural, death-dealing, decrease, depart, diminish, disestablish, disorder, disorganize, ecce homo, erase, harvest, ignore, leave, lessen, mortal, mortiferous, move, reap, reduce, reveal, stop, sublunary, uncover, unsettle, upset

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place fix stand deposit set lodge annual apparatus bed biennial bury bush conceal cover creeper cutting embed equipment establish farm flower forge found foundry frame somebody gear grass greenery

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