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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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shoulder

/ˈʃəʊldə/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈʃəʊldə/
shoulder
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final r is pronounced in US English

shoul - der -> shoulder

Myanmar meaning

(n) ပခုံး

Full entry

shoulder /'ʃǝƱldǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [C] (က) ပခုံး။ look back over one's shoulder ❍ shrug one's shoulders (ie as a gesture indicating that one does not know or is not interested) ❍ He slung the bag over his right shoulder. ❍ HUMAN ❍ BODY (ခ) အကျႌပခုံး။ a jacket with padded shoulders.
၂။ shoulders [pl] (က) ပခုံး။ a person with broad shoulders ❍ carry a rucksack on one's shoulders ❍ give a child a ride on one's shoulders. (ခ) တာဝန်။ ခေါင်း။ ပခုံး။ shift the blame onto sb else's shoulders ❍ The burden of guilt has been lifted from my shoulders. ❍ She has a lot (of responsibility) on her shoulders.
၃။ [C,U] အမဲစသည်၏လက်ပြင်သား။ some/a shoulder of lamb ❍ shoulder ham.
၄။ [C] (တောင်၊ ပုလင်း စသည်တွင်) လူ့ပခုံးနှင့် တူသည့် အစိတ်အပိုင်း။ ပခုံး။ ❍ MOUNTAIN See also HARD SHOULDER
v
၁။ လွယ်သည်။ ပိုးသည်။ ထမ်းသည်။ She shouldered her backpack and set off along the road.
၂။ တာဝန်ယူသည်။ ထမ်းသည်။ shoulder the burdens of high office.
၃။ (က) ပခုံးချင်းတိုက်သည်။ He shouldered the police officer aside. (ခ) (လူအုပ်ထဲမှ၊ ထဲသို့) တိုးထွက်၊ တိုးဝင်သည်။ He shouldered his way through the crowd.
❏ be looking over one's shoulder [IDM ] နောက်ဆံတင်း သည်။
❏ put one's shoulder to the wheel [IDM ] လက်ကြော တင်းတင်းလုပ်သည်။ ကျုံးရုန်းလုပ်သည်။ Come on, everyone, (put your) shoulders to the wheel — we've got a lot to do.
❏ shoulder-bag n လွယ်အိတ်။
❏ shoulder-blade n လက်ပြင်ရိုး။ SCAPULA ❍ SKELETON
❏ shoulder-high adj ပခုံးအမြင့်။ ပခုံးပေါ်။ a shoulder-high wall ❍ The victorious captain was carried shoulder-high by his team-mates.
❏ shoulder-length adj (ဆံပင်)ပခုံးထောက်။
❏ shoulder-strap n (က) (အမျိုးသမီးအကျႌ၊ အတွင်းခံ အကျႌ စသည်၏)လက်ကြိုး။
(ခ) ပခုံးသိုင်းကြိုး။ လွယ်အိတ်ကြိုး။
❏ (be/give sb) a shoulder to cry on [IDM ] ရင်ဖွင့်သည် ကိုနားထောင်ပြီးနှစ်သိမ့်အားပေးသူ(ဖြစ်သည်)။ He was deeply unhappy and needed a shoulder to cry on.
❏ shoulder to shoulder [IDM ]
၁။ ပခုံးချင်းယှဉ်၍။ ရင်ပေါင်တန်း။ stand shoulder to shoulder with one's fellow-workers in the dispute.
၂။ ဘေးချင်းယှဉ်လျက်။ sit shoulder to shoulder studying the map.

More examples
  • She injured her shoulder in the accident.
  • [shrug your shoulders] : Most people would have shrugged their shoulders and forgotten it.
  • [hunch your shoulders] : The man was hunching his shoulders against the pounding rain.
  • She had on a white jacket with padded shoulders (=extra cloth that makes your shoulders look bigger).
  • A shoulder of lamb
Synonyms
bear, carry, take on, accept, assume, bulldoze, elbow, hustle, jostle, mountainside, nudge, press, push, push aside, roadside, shove, take up, take upon oneself, thrust, wayside
Antonyms
deny, leave alone, pull, refuse
Cross references
bearcarrytake onacceptassumebulldozeelbowhustlejostlemountainsidenudgepresspushpush asideroadsideshovetake uptake upon oneselfthrustwaysidedenyleave alonepullrefuseandbackbagbeen
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