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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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shelling

US pronunciation
American soundshelling
shelling
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2 syllables
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shel - ling -> shelling

Myanmar meaning

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shell /ʃel/ n

၁။ (က) [C,U] အခွံမာ။ အခွံ။ Oysters, snails and tortoises all have shells. ❍ collecting shells on the beach ❍ walnut/coconut/clam shells ❍ broken pieces of shell. ❍ NUT, SHELLFISH, SNAIL See also EGGSHELL, SEA SHELL, TORTOISESHELL
(ခ) [C] ကြွေစေ့ပုံ။ ခရုခွံပုံ။ pasta shells.
၂။ [C] (က) အဆောက်အအုံ၊ သင်္ဘော စသည်၏အပြင်ကိုယ်ထည်ချည်းသက်သက်။ အခွံ။ Only the shell of the factory was left after the fire had been put out. ❍ (fig ) My life has been an empty shell since he died. (ခ) ကိုယ်ထည်ခွံ။ အကာ။ the body shell of a car ❍ The tunnel is lined with a concrete shell.
၃။ [sing] ဟန်။ အပြင်ပန်း။ develop a shell of indifference.
၄။ [C] (က) အမြောက်ဆန်။ လက်နက်ကြီးကျည်ဆန်။ shell, mortar and sniper fire ❍ The building was destroyed by an artillery shell. Compare CARTRIDGE ၁,SHOT1 ၄ (ခ) (US ) = CARTRIDGE ၁
v
၁။ အခွံခွာသည်။ shell peas/peanuts/mussels ❍ 200g of shelled prawns.
၂။ (အမြောက်၊ လက်နက် ကြီးဖြင့်) ပစ်သည်။ shell the enemy positions.
❏ come out of / go into, etc one's shell [IDM ] အုံ့ပုန်း၊ အထီးကျန် ဘဝကို စွန့်သည် (သို့) ယင်းဘဝတွင် အောင်းသည်။ She has really come out of her shell and is chatting to everyone. ❍ Losing his job seems to have made him retire into his shell.
❏ shell bean n (US ) (အတောင့်လိုက်မစားရဘဲ)အဆန်ထုတ် စားရသော ပဲသီးတောင့်မျိုး။
❏ shelling n [U] အမြောက်ဖြင့်ပစ်ခတ်ခြင်း။ a night of heavy shelling.
❏ shell out (sth) (for sth) [PHRV ] (infml ) ငွေထုတ်ရ သည်။ The children expect me to shell out (the money) for their party.
❏ shell-shock n [U] အမြောက်၊ လက်နက်ကြီးဒဏ် မပြတ် ခံရခြင်းကြောင့် စိတ်ချောက်ချားမှုဝေဒနာ။ suffer from shell-shock.
❏ shell-shocked adj
၁။ ယင်းဝေဒနာခံစားနေရသော။
၂။ ထူပူပြီး မှင်တက်မိသွားသော၊ ကြက်သေသေသွားသော။ I felt totally shell-shocked when she told me he had died.
❏ shell suit n (ပေါ့ပါးတောက်ပြောင်သောအစဖြင့် ချုပ်ထား သော) အကျႌ၊ ဘောင်းဘီ သက်သက်။ (အခမ်းအနားဝတ်မဟုတ် သည့် ဝတ်စုံ)။ Compare TRACK SUIT

More examples
  • A crab shell
  • The kids were collecting shells on the beach.
  • Pieces of egg shell
  • Anti-aircraft shells
Synonyms
case, casing, covering, shield, crust, defense, skin, armor, bomb, bombard, carapace, carcass, chassis, explosive, fire at, frame, framework, hull, husk, integument, missile, mortar, nut, open fire on, pericarp, plastron, pod, projectile, remains, scale, shard, shelling, shoot at, shoot down, shuck, skeleton, structure; covering
Antonyms
center, core, inside, interior, middle
Cross references
casecasingcoveringshieldcrustdefenseskinarmorbombbombardcarapacecarcasschassisexplosivefire atframeframeworkhullhuskintegumentmissilemortarnutopen fire onpericarpplastronpodprojectile
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