strike

/strʌɪk/

US pronunciation

American sound/strʌɪk/

strike

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> strike

Myanmar meaning

(v) ထု (n) သပိတ်မှောက်ခြင်း

Full entry

strike /straÇk/ n

၁။ သပိတ်မှောက်ခြင်း။ a miners' strike ❍ a strike by bus drivers ❍ a general/an unofficial/a wildcat strike ❍ call a strike ❍ take strike action ❍ an all-out strike (ie one in which all employees take part) ❍ Air traffic controllers are on strike. ❍ Engineering staff are threatening to come/go out on strike. See also HUNGER STRIKE
၂။ (စီးနင်း၊ ဗုံးကြဲ)တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း။ air/nuclear strikes.
၃။ (usu sing ) ကော်ပေါက်။ a lucky strike.
၄။ (usu sing ) ထု၊ ရိုက်၊ ကန်ချက်။ It was a good strike but it went just wide of the goal.
v (pt, pp struck /strʌk/)
၁။ (က) ထုသည်။ ရိုက်သည်။ ဆောင့်သည်။ တိုက်သည်။ အောင်းသည်။ ထိမှန်သည်။ The ship struck a rock. ❍ The tree was struck by lightning. ❍ He struck his head on/against the ceilling. ❍ The stone struck him on the forehead. ❍ HITv
(ခ) ရိုက်သည်၊ ပုတ်သည်၊ ထုသည်၊ ထိုးသည် စသည်။ She struck him (in the face). ❍ He struck the table a heavy blow with his fist. ❍ Who struck the first blow (ie started the fight)? (ဂ) ~ at sb/sth ရိုက်သည်၊ ပုတ်သည် စသည်။ He struck at me repeatedly with a stick. (ဃ) ကန်သည်၊ ခတ်သည်၊ ရိုက်သည် စသည်။ He struck the ball into the net.
၂။ (က) (ရုတ်တရက်)တိုက်ခိုက်သည်။ The lion crouched ready to strike. ❍ Police fear that the killer may strike again. (ခ) ~ at sb/sth ထိခိုက်သည်။ ထိမိသည်။ ထိရောက်သည်။ criticisms that strike at the heart of the party's policies ❍ strike at the root of the problem.
၃။ (ဒုက္ခ၊ ကပ်ဘေး စသည်) ဆိုက်သည်၊ ရောက်သည်။ Two days later tragedy struck. ❍ The area was struck by an outbreak of cholera.
၄။ (အတွေး၊ သဘော)ပေါက်သည်။ (အံ့အားသင့်) မိသည်။ An awful thought has just struck me. ❍ I was struck by her resemblance to my aunt. ❍ It strikes me that nobody is really in favour of the changes. ❍ It suddenly struck me how we could improve the situation.
၅။ ~ sb as sth (သဘော)ပေါက်သည်။ How does the idea strike you? ❍ The plan strikes me as ridiculous. ❍ She strikes me as a very efficient person.
၆။ (esp passive) (ဗြုန်းစားကြီး)…သွားသည်။ be struck blind/dumb.
၇။ သပိတ် မှောက်သည်။ Striking workers picketed the factory. ❍ The union has voted to strike for a pay increase of 10%.
၈။ (မီးခြစ်)ခြစ်သည်။ strike a match (on a wall) ❍ These matches are damp and won't strike.
၉။ (က) (နာရီ)ထိုးသည်။ The clock has just struck (three). ❍ The clock only strikes the hours. (ခ) (နာရီ)ထိုးသည်။ Four o'clock had just struck on the church clock.
၁၀။ (တူရိယာ) တီးသည်၊ ထိုးသည်၊ နှိပ်သည်။ strike a chord (on the piano).
၁၁။ (ရွှေ၊ ငွေ၊ သတ္တု၊ ရေနံ စသည် သိုက်) တွေ့ သည်။ strike a rich vein of ore.
၁၂။ သွန်းလုပ်သည်။ The Royal Mint will strike a commemorative gold coin.
❏ be struck by/on/with sb/sth [IDM ] (infml ) စွဲသည်။ ကြိုက်သည်။ ခိုက်သည်။ I was really struck by the house and bought it immediately. ❍ He's very much struck on his new girlfriend.
❏ strike an attitude/a pose [IDM ]
၁။ ကိုယ်ဟန်ပြ သည်။ strike a pose for a photograph.
၂။ ဟန်ဆောင်ပြသည်။ ဟန်ရေးပြ သည်။ He struck an attitude of defiance with a typically hard-hitting speech.
❏ strike back (at/against sb) [PHRV ] တန်ပြန်တိုက်ခိုက် သည်။ ပြန်လှန်ထိုးနှက်သည်။ He struck back at his critics with a passionate speech defending his policies.
❏ strike a balance (between A and B) [IDM ] အစွန်း နှစ်ဖက်ကို ရှောင်သည်။ ညှိနှိုင်းသည်။ It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency.
❏ strike a blow for/against sth [IDM ] အကျိုးဆောင် သည်။ By their action, they struck a blow for democracy.
❏ strike sb down [PHRV ] (esp passive) ဆုံးပါးသည်။ be struck down by an assassin's bullet ❍ He was struck down by cancer at the age of thirty.
❏ strike fear , etc into sb/sb's heart [IDM ] တုန်လှုပ် ချောက်ချားစေသည်။ The news of the epidemic struck terror into the population.
❏ strike gold/oil [IDM ] ပွပေါက်တိုးသည်။ ကော်သည်။ စွံသည်။ She hasn't always been lucky with her boyfriends but she seems to have struck gold this time.
❏ strike (it) lucky [IDM ] (infml ) ကံကောင်းထောက်မ သည်။ We certainly struck (it) lucky with the weather.
❏ strike it rich [IDM ] (infml ) ပွပေါက်တိုးသည်။
❏ strike sth off [PHRV ] ဖြတ်ပစ်သည်။ ချိုင်သည်။ He struck off the rotten branches with an axe.
❏ strike sb/sth off (sth) [PHRV ] စာရင်းမှပယ်သည်။ ထုတ်ပယ်သည်။ Strike her name off the list. ❍ The doctor was struck off for incompetence.
❏ strike on sth [PHRV ] (စိတ်ကူး)ပေါက်သည်။ (မမျှော်လင့် ဘဲ)ဝင်တိုးမိသည်။ strike on a brilliant new idea ❍ We struck on a wonderful little restaurant in one of the backstreets.
❏ strike out [PHRV ] ကိုယ့်လမ်းကိုယ်ထွင်သွားသည်။ သီးခြား ခွဲထွက်သည်။ strike out on one's own ❍ She decided to strike out and start a new career.
❏ strike out (at sb/sth) [PHRV ]
၁။ (ရမ်းသန်း) ထိုးသည်၊ ချသည်။ He lost his temper and struck out wildly.
၂။ (ကလောင်ဖြင့်) ထိုးနှက်သည်။ In a recent article she strikes out at her critics.
❏ strike sth out/through [PHRV ] ခြစ်ပစ်သည်။ ဖျက်သည်။ The editor struck out the whole paragraph.
❏ strike out (for/towards sth) [PHRV ] ဦးတည်သွား သည်။ strike out on foot for the distant hills ❍ He struck out (ie started swimming) towards the shore.
❏ strike pay n [U] သပိတ်မှောက်နေစဉ် အလုပ်သမားသမဂ္ဂ က ထောက်ပံ့သည့်ကြေးငွေ။
❏ strike-rate n (usu sing ) (ဂိုးသွင်းနိုင်ခြင်းစသော)အောင်မြင်မှု နှုန်း။ a player with a high strike-rate.
❏ strike up (sth) [PHRV ] စတင်တီးမှုတ်သည်။ The band struck up (a waltz).
❏ strike up sth (with sb) [PHRV ] မိတ်ဖွဲ့သည်။ ပဋိသန္ဓာရ စကားပြောသည်။ He would often strike up conversations with complete strangers.
❏ strike while the iron is hot [IDM ] (saying ) အချိန်ရှိခိုက် လုံ့လစိုက်ပါ။
❏ within striking distance (of sth) [IDM ] လက်တစ် ကမ်းအတွင်း။ The hotel is within striking distance of the old town.

More examples

One of the bullets struck her forearm.
The boat struck the bottom.
[strike someone/something on the something] : The ball struck her hard on the left shoulder.
[be struck by something] : She’s in hospital with head injuries after being struck by a car.
[strike on] : Gordon fell from his bike and struck his head on the ground.
Can lightning ever strike twice in the same place?
Judy’s house was struck by lightning during the storm.
[strike someone/something on the something] : He fled empty-handed after striking a security guard on the head.
[strike something with something] : ‘Idiot!’ cried Simmons, striking his forehead with the palm of his hand.
[strike (someone) a blow (on something)] : She had been struck a blow on the back of the head.
She’s really striking the ball well and has her confidence back.
He struck a superb shot into the back of the net.
Police say they fear the man could strike again.
The thief struck sometime between 8.30 am and 6 pm.
[strike against] : We will use these air bases to strike against the northern territories.
Anderson struck twice in three minutes in the first half.
Henry struck the winning goal seconds before the end of the match.
Striking factory workers
The right to strike was then established in the constitution.
[strike for] : Pilots were striking for a 6% salary increase.
[strike over] : Car workers were threatening to strike over the job losses.
Accidents can strike at any time.
Three earthquakes struck Peru on April 5th and 6th.
[tragedy strikes (someone/something)] : That same year, tragedy struck the family again.

Synonyms

hit, beat, smack, sock, belt, thump, wallop, clout, clobber, punch, achieve, affect, afflict, aggress, air strike, arbitrate, arrange, arrive at, assail, assault, attack, attain, bang, bash, be on strike, be plausible, beset, boff, bonk, box, boycott, buffet, bump into, carry, catch, chance upon, chastise, clash, clonk, collide, collide with, come across, come into contact with, come out, come to, come to mind, come upon, conk, crash, crash into, cross your mind, cuff, dawn on, deal a blow, devastate, dig up, discover, down tools, drive, effect, encounter, excruciate, fall on, fall upon, find, foray, force, get, go on a go-slow, go on strike, go-slow, hammer, happen upon, harrow, have semblance, hit hard, hit the bricks, hit upon, hold out, impel, impress, incursion, industrial action, influence, inspire, invade, knock, launch an attack, lay bare, light on, light upon, look, martyr, mediate, move, mutiny, negotiate, occur to, open up, percuss, picket, plant, pop, pound, pummel, punish, quit, rack, raid, reach, refuse to work, register, resist, revolt, run into, seem, seize, set on, set upon, sit down, sit in, slap, slow down, slowdown, slug, smash into, smite, stick out, stop, stop work, storm, stumble across, swat, sway, take, take industrial action, thrust, thunk, tie up, torment, torture, touch, try, turn up, uncover, unearth, walk out, walkout, whacked, whacking, whop, work stoppage, work to rule, work-to-rule, wring

Antonyms

aid, be immune, comply, depart, discourage, dissuade, fail, free, give, leave, let go, lose, make happy, miss, misunderstand, not touch, obey, offer, pass up, please, release, surrender, tap

Cross references

hit beat smack sock belt thump wallop clout clobber punch achieve affect afflict aggress air strike arbitrate arrange arrive at assail assault attack attain bang bash be on strike be plausible beset boff