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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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sweeper

/ˈswiːpə/

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

swee - per -> sweeper

Myanmar meaning

တံမြက်စည်းလှည်း သန့်ရှင်းရေးလုပ်သူ။ ကော်ဇောများကို ဖုံလှည်းသည့် လက်သုံးကိရိယာ။ ဂိုးသမားနှင့် ကပ်၍ ထားရှိသည့် ခံစစ်ကစားသူ။

Full entry

sweep /swi:p/ v (pt, pp swept /swept/)

၁။ (က) ~ sth (from , off , into , etc sth) ; ~ sth (away , up , etc) လှည်းကျင်းသည်။ တံမြက်လှည်းသည်။ Have you swept in here? ❍ sweep the crumbs off the table/ into the dustpan ❍ sweep the dead leaves up. (ခ) ~ sth (out) လှည်းကျင်းသည်။ sweep the carpet/ floor/ yard ❍ sweep cut the porch ❍ Has this room been swept clean?
၂။ တိုက်ချသည်။ တွန်းပို့သည်။ တွန်းဖယ်သည်။ ဖယ်ရှားသည်။ The current swept the logs down the river. ❍ We were almost swept off our feet by the waves. ❍ (fig ) He was swept to power on a wave of popular support. ❍ She got swept along by the crowd. ❍ Many bridges were swept away by the floods. ❍ (fig ) Many old laws and institutions were swept aside/ away by the revolution.
၃။ ရိုက်သည်။ ပုတ်သည်။ ရိုက်ခတ် သည်။ လွှမ်းမိုးသည်။ A huge wave swept over the deck. ❍ Rumours swept through the town. ❍ Cold winds swept the plains. ❍ (fig )A wave of panic swept the country. ❍ (fig ) The party swept the country (ie won the election by a large majority).
၄။ ဣနြေ္ဒတစ်ခွဲသားနှင့် (သို့) ခံ့ခံ့ညားညား သွားလာရွေ့လျားသည်။ Without another word she swept out. ❍ The car swept up the drive to the front of the house.
၅။ ပတ်သွားသည်။ ဝေ့ဝိုက်သွားသည်။ The road sweeps round the lake. ❍ The beach sweeps (away) northwards as far as one can see.
၆။ ရှာဖွေသည်။ မွှေ သည်။ Searchlights swept the sky.
၇။ တရွတ်တိုက်သည်။ Her dress swept the ground as she walked.
n
၁။ [C usu sing ] တံမြက်လှည်းခြင်း။ Give the room a good sweep.
၂။ [C] ဝေ့ခြင်း။ ဝှေ့ခြင်း။ မွှေ့ခြင်း။ with a sweep of his arm/ scythe.
၃။ [C usu sing ] တစ်ခွင်တစ်ပြင်။ တစ်ကြော။ the broad sweep of white cliffs round the bay.
၄။ [U] တစ်ခွင်။ တစ်ကြော။ တစ်လျှောက်။ His book covers the long sweep of the country's history.
၅။ [C] တစ်ပတ်။ တစ်ကျော့။ The rescue helicopter made another sweep over the bay.
၆။ [C] = CHIMNEY-SWEEP
၇။ [C] = SWEEPSTAKE
❏ sweep sth back [PHRV ] နောက်လှန်ဖြီးသည်။ Her auburn hair was swept back into an untidy bun.
❏ sweep the board [IDM ] သိမ်းကျုံးယူသည်။ Switzerland swept the board in the winter Olympics.
❏ sweeper n
၁။ (in football) နောက်ဆုံးတန်းမှ ခုခံကာကွယ် ကစားသူ။
၂။ (က) တံမြက်လှည်းသမား။ a road sweeper. (ခ) တံမြက်လှည်းစက်။ a carpet sweeper. See also MINESWEEPER
❏ sweepings n [pl] လှည်းထုတ်ပစ်သော အမှိုက်သရိုက်။
❏ sweep sb off their feet [IDM ] စွဲမက်သွားသည်။ I was swept off my feet by her beauty and charm.
❏ sweep sth under the carpet [IDM ] ဖုံးဖိထားသည်။ The government are trying to sweep the affair under the carpet.

More examples
  • After you’ve swept, you can do the washing-up.
  • Her work consisted mainly of making coffee and sweeping the floor.
  • I want you to sweep up the garage.
  • Little children used to be used to sweep chimneys.
  • Youngsters are risking their lives in a dangerous craze which is sweeping the country.
  • [sweep across] : The hurricane swept across the Gulf of California.
  • [sweep through] : Fire swept through the building.
  • The flood waters swept the car downstream.
  • He was swept along the street by dozens of supporters.
  • He swept his son into his arms.
  • [sweep into/past/by etc] : She swept into the office and announced she could only stay ten minutes.
  • [sweep past/through/along etc] : The limousine carrying the ambassador swept through the gates.
  • Her gaze swept the room and she frowned.
  • As she spoke, her eyes swept over her daughter.
  • The scenery was beautiful, with cool green forests sweeping down the hillsides.
Synonyms
brush, sweep up, clean, ambit, arc, arch, away, bend, bow, breadth, broom, brush away, brush off, brush up, career, carry, clean up, clear, clear away, clear up, compass, course, curve, dart, dash, distance, extension, extent, fleet, flit, flounce, fly, gesture, glance, glide, grab, hurry, hurtle, latitude, length, mop, move, movement, orbit, pass, pick up, play, progress, purview, race, radius, range, reach, ready, region, remove, rush, sail, scoop up, scope, scrub, scud, seize, skim, span, speed, stretch, stroke, swing, swish, swoop, take, tear, tidy, tidy up, vacuum, vista, whiz, wing, zip, zoom
Antonyms
creep, dirty, limitation, line
Cross references
brushsweep upcleanambitarcarchawaybendbowbreadthbroombrush awaybrush offbrush upcareercarryclean upclearclear awayclear upcompasscoursecurvedartdashdistanceextensionextent
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