tarpaulin

/tɑːˈpɔːlɪn/

US pronunciation

American sound/tɑːˈpɔːlɪn/

tɑːˈpɔːlɪn

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 2nd syllable stress
Vowel: Open ah vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

tɑː - ˈpɔːlɪn -> tarpaulin

Myanmar meaning

မိုးရေကာဖျင်။ ၎င်းအချ ပ်၊ အလွှာ။

Full entry

tarpaulin /tɑ:'pↄ:lÇn/ n

[C, U] မိုးရေခံဖျင်။ တာပေါ်လင်စ။ a truck covered by a tarpaulin.

More examples

‘The tiles were covered in tarpaulin and pegged down while the police were informed.’
‘New Malden firefighters, sitting out during the strike in a hut made of wooden pallets and tarpaulin in front of the station, remained defiant but uncertain what the stoppage would bring.’
‘The cause of the crash was not clear although a set of wheels came off the final carriage and investigators covered a set of points immediately behind the accident scene with blue tarpaulin, suggesting a fault on either train or track.’
‘Today there are 50 families living on the same stretch of pavement where she had erected a lean-to with tarpaulin in the early 1980s.’
‘Red lanterns suspended from bamboo poles crisscross the streets while bamboo stalls topped with colorful tarpaulin litter the sidewalks.’
‘In Kindamba he improvised a splint from palm branches and asked a carpenter to make another, around which tarpaulin would be wrapped.’
‘Conditions were hard with up to 10, 000 people living in squalor under tarpaulin and surviving on corn meal and wheat.’
‘They put up temporary housing made out of mud, out of bamboo, out of thatch, out of tarpaulin, out of corrugated steel.’
‘Soldiers stood or sat on them and the vehicles were enclosed with tarpaulin.’
‘Eyewitnesses said the vehicle was covered in tarpaulin to prevent onlookers seeing the body.’
‘No, they insist, quickly hiding paint pots under some nearby tarpaulin.’
‘The three-and-a-half-hour struggle to make the area safe ended when the fire crews managed to get tarpaulin over the roof and made the ground debris safe.’
‘A quantity of drugs were recovered from the house and a high-value car, which was found covered by tarpaulin in the front garden, was removed to be stripped down and examined.’
‘Crews have covered the roof with salvage tarpaulin to protect the house from the weather while repairs are made.’
‘Endless hours of coverage of a grey Wimbledon with green tarpaulin over the courts does little to promote the tournament as one of the great sporting events of the 21st century.’
‘The sun was quite low when the train pulled into another yard, and he had covered them with tarpaulin once again.’
‘He said the remaining topsoil had been hosed down and covered with polythene and tarpaulin.’
‘The option was of course, to down tools, rush off to the Hyper Value, buy a big piece of tarpaulin and cover the huge open space in our front wall.’
‘And I have the greatest almost-garden thing of all - an almost-shed, which is lying underneath tarpaulin in 300 bits waiting to become a proper shed.’
‘A 60-inch-high canopy stands over a chunk of a masonry wall now lying flat on a piece of bright blue plastic tarpaulin.’

Synonyms

canvas, tarp, oilcloth, cover, sheet, sheeting, coat, covering, dropcloth, sailcloth

Cross references

canvas tarp oilcloth cover sheet sheeting coat covering dropcloth sailcloth truck

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