silence
/ˈsʌɪləns/
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- Final e often stays silent
si - lence -> silence
(n) တိတ်ဆိတ်ခြင်း
၁။ [U] တိတ်ဆိတ်ခြင်း။ ဆိတ်ငြိမ်ခြင်း။ the silence of the night ❍ A scream broke/shattered the silence. ❍ In the library silence reigned (ie it was totally silent).
၂။ (က) [U]ဆိတ်ဆိတ်နေခြင်း။ ရေငုံနှုတ်ပိတ်နေခြင်း။ All my questions (were) met with silence from him. ❍ They listened to him in silence. ❍ The teacher's stern look reduced him to silence. ဆရာ၏ စူးရှခက်ထန်သော အကြည့်က သူ့အားဆွံ့ အသွားစေသည်။ ❍ I can't understand her silence on this matter.
ဒီကိစ္စနဲ့ပတ်သက်လို့သူတိတ်ချက်သားကောင်းနေတာကို ငါတော့နားမလည်နိုင်ဘူး။ ❍ I assume that your silence implies consent. ခင်ဗျားဆိတ်ဆိတ်နေ တာကို ဝန်ခံတယ်လို့ပဲ ကျုပ်ယူဆလိုက်တယ်။ ❍ After a year's silence (ie a year during which she did not write), I got a letter from her. ❍ They tried to buy his silence. သူတို့က ငွေနဲ့လာဘ်ထိုးပြီး နှုတ်ပိတ်ဖို့ ကြိုးစားတယ်။
(ခ) [C] ဆိတ်ဆိတ် နေခြင်း။ တိတ်ချက်သားကောင်းခြင်း။ ဝစီပိတ် နေခြင်း။ She became used to his long silences. ❍ a one-minute silence in honour of the dead ❍ There was a brief silence, followed by uproar. ❍ (joc ) a deafening (ie very noticeable) silence.
v နှုတ်ဆိတ်စေသည်။ ငြိမ်သက်စေသည်။ Her critics refused to be silenced. ❍ His look of disapproval silenced her. ❍ silence the enemy's guns (eg by destroying them) ❍ Their doubts were not easily silenced.
interj တိတ်စေ။ တိတ်။ ‘Silence!’ he roared.
❏ silence is golden [IDM ] (saying ) ဆိတ်ဆိတ်နေသော် ထောင်တန်၏။
❏ silencer n (က) (Brit ) (US muffler ) ယာဉ်အိတ်ဇောမှမြည်သံကိုလျော့ပါးစေသည့် ကိရိယာ။ ဆိုင်လင်ဆာ။ ❍CAR
(ခ) (သေနတ်) အသံတိတ်ကိရိယာ။
- The owl’s cry cut through the silence in the forest.
- The silence was broken by the soft sound of rain.
- When I answered the phone there was dead silence (=no sound at all).
- Long silences make her uncomfortable.
- We stared at each other in stunned silence.
- [a moment of silence] : We begin our service with a moment of silence.
- [in silence] : They drove home in silence.
- She maintained an angry silence.
- [silence on] : Her silence on the subject has been interpreted as a sign of guilt.
- A letter finally arrived from Lee, ending his long silence.
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