smokescreen
/ˈsməʊkskriːn/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈsməʊkskriːn/
smokescreen
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smo - kes - creen -> smokescreen
Myanmar meaning
စစ်ဆင်ရေးကို ဖုံးကွယ်ထားသည့် မီးခိုးထု။ လှုပ်ရှားမှုကို ဖုံးကွယ်ရန် ပရိယာယ်။
Full entry
smokescreen /'små7kskri:n/ n
(က) တပ်လှုပ်ရှားမှုကို ဖုံးကွယ်ထား ရန် ချပေးသည့် မီးခိုးတန်း၊ မှိုင်းကာ။
(ခ) အမှန်ကိုဖုံးကွယ်ရန် ဗန်းပြထားသည့် ကိစ္စ။ [ဥ] မျက်နှာဖုံး။ The export business was just a smoke- screen for his activities as a spy.
More examples
- ‘Wing Commander Frank Brock, a director of the company, used his background and passion for explosives and incendiaries to develop a smokescreen to conceal battleships at sea.’
- ‘They thought that it was a smokescreen to disguise the movement forwards of German troops.’
- ‘Desultory firing continued for two days amid fog, smokescreens, and increasing confusion, before the operation was eventually abandoned.’
- ‘We use them [white phosphorus munitions] primarily as obscurants, for smokescreens or target marking in some cases.’
- ‘Behind a smokescreen of good intentions, the project continues.’
- ‘All of it in the end is an elaborate smokescreen to prevent us seeing the real issue: which is not a matter of trust but of judgment.’
- ‘According to the site, the old adage ‘Men are from Mars, women are from Venus’ is merely a smokescreen - felines are the real Martians.’
- ‘We are now left to wonder whether the publicly-advertised trials of GM crops were only a smokescreen to divert attention away from the real, clandestine experiments.’
- ‘I respond by cutting through the smokescreen and getting to the real facts, which they are hiding from you.’
- ‘Why don't you spend your valuable time actually answering Blair's accusation, or is this a nice little smokescreen to disguise the fact that you haven't got a leg to stand on?’
- ‘Gardai claim that a proposed marriage between a Corkman and a Romanian girl charged in a credit card scam is only a smokescreen to obtain a residency permit.’
- ‘Not playing bilateral cricket is a smokescreen used to evade the real issues.’
- ‘Hague last night insisted that he would not be silenced by accusations of racism, which he said were designed as a smokescreen to hide Labour's problems over asylum.’
- ‘It's not even clear the Cheney administration ever had any serious intention of promoting those values except as a smokescreen for the exercise of American power.’
- ‘Jimmy reckons that the Charlie denials are a smokescreen - distracting from the actual real rumour.’
- ‘There's no attempt to cloud its intentions behind a smokescreen of law enforcement or national security - although the Secure PC is an advance on current standards.’
- ‘It's just hard to sort out the real issues from the smokescreens as the rhetoric heats up this election year.’
- ‘Many people in York suspect the vagueness the company expresses about its intentions could be a smokescreen.’
- ‘More likely, it's another smokescreen designed to increase the public's general paranoia and portray the Department of Homeland Security as anything but incompetent.’
- ‘I do find, because I work alongside lots of other artists and producers, that pretense could be a smokescreen for insecurity.’
Synonyms
concealment, disguise, cover-up, facade, beard, blind, burial, camouflage, cloak, closeting, complicity, conspiracy, cover, coverup, deceit, deceptive marking, disguising, dissimulation, evasion, faking, false appearance, front, guise, hush-up, mask, masking, masquerade, mimicry, paint, placing under wraps, plain brown wrapper, pretense, protective coloring, red herring, screen, seal of secrecy, shade, shroud, smoke-screen, veil, veil of secrecy, whitewash
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