wind

/wɪnd/

US pronunciation

American sound/wɪnd/

wind

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> wind

Myanmar meaning

(n) (တိုက်ခတ်နေသော)လေ။(ကိုယ်တွင်း)လေ။ဝါယောဓာတ်။ (v) အသက်မရူနိုင်ဖြစ်

Full entry

wind¹ /wÇnd/ n

၁။ [C,U] (also the wind ) (တိုက်ခတ်သော) လေ။ လေ။ trees blown down by strong/ high/ gale-force winds. ❍ a light wind ❍ a cold/ biting north wind (ie one blowing from the north) ❍ The curtains were flapping backwards and forwards in the wind. ❍ The wind was howling round the chimneys. ❍ A gust of wind blew my hat off. ❍ The wind has dropped (ie is less strong) now. ❍ a shift in wind direction ❍ The day was very still, without a breath of wind. See also CROSSWIND, DOWNWIND, TAIL WIND
၂။ [U] အသက်ရှူ။ သက်လုံ။ be short of wind ❍ After running hard I had to stop and regain my wind (ie wait until I could breathe more easily). See also SECOND WInd
၃။ [U] (Brit ) (US gas ) (ကိုယ်တွင်း) လေ။ ဝါယောဓာတ်။ get a baby's wind up (ie cause it to BELCH by gently hitting its back).
၄။ [U] လေလုံးမိုးလုံး။ He's just full of wind, the pompous old fool!
၅။ (က) [U] လေမှုတ်တူရိယာ။ music for wind and strings.
(ခ) the wind [Gp] (သံစုံတီးဝိုင်း) လေတူရိယာ သည်။ the wind section.
v
၁။ အသက်မရှူနိုင်ဖြစ်သည်။ We were winded by the steep climb. ❍ The punch in the stomach momentarily winded him.
၂။ ကလေးငယ်၏ ကျောကို အသာအယာ ပုတ်ပေး၍ လေတက်စေသည်။ See also LONG-WINDED
❏ break wind [IDM ] (euph ) လေသက်သည်။ လေလည် သည်။
❏ get wind of sth [IDM ] သိုးသိုးသံ့သံ့ကြားသည်။ သတင်း အနံ့ရသည်။ Our competitors must not be allowed to get wind of our plans.
❏ get/ have the wind up (about sth) [IDM ] (infml ) ကြောက်ရွံ့သည်။ ထိတ်လန့်သည်။
❏ in the wind [IDM ] (တစ်ခုခုဖြစ်တော့မည်၊ ဖြစ်တော့မည့်) အရိပ်နိမိတ်ပြေးနေသည်။ They sensed that there was something in the wind.
❏ like the wind [IDM ] (လေအဟုန်ကဲ့သို့) မြန်သည်။ She ran like the wind.
❏ put the wind up sb [IDM ] (infml ) ခြောက်လှန့် သည်။
❏ take the wind out of sb's sails [IDM ] အငိုက်မိပြီး ပျာသွားသည်။ The government's concession on pensions has taken much of the wind out of the Opposition's sails.
❏ wind-blown adj (က) လေနှင့်ပါလာသော။ wind-blown snow. (ခ) လေတိုက်၍ ဖရိုဖရဲဖြစ်နေသော။ wind-blown hair.
❏ wind-break n လေကာ (သစ်ပင်တန်း၊ စည်းတန်း)။
❏ wind chill n [U] လေအေးဓာတ်။ take into account the wind chill factor.
❏ wind farm n လေရဟတ်ပေါသောအရပ်။
❏ wind instrument n လေမှုတ်တူရိယာ။ Flutes and clarinets are wind instruments. Compare WOODWIND
❏ windless adj လေငြိမ်သော။ a windless day.
❏ a wind/ the winds of change [IDM ] အပြောင်းအလဲ။ ပြောင်းလဲမည့် လက္ခဏာ။ It would be foolish to defy the winds of change.
❏ wind-sock n လေညွှန်ပြွန်။
❏ windy adj (-ier, -iest )
၁။ (က) လေထန်သော။ wet and windy conditions ❍ It was a windy day. (ခ) လေကြောင်းကျ သော။ a windy hillside.
၂။ (infml derog ) လေရှည်သော။ windy phrases.

wind² /waÇnd/ v (pt, pp wound /waƱnd/)

၁။ ကွေ့ပတ်သွားသည်။ winding alleys and backstreets ❍ The river winds (its way) along a narrow valley. ❍ The path winds steeply upwards.
၂။ (ချည် စသည်) လုံးသည်၊ ရစ်သည်။ wind wool (up) into a ball.
၃။ (က) ~ sth round sb/ sth; ~ sb/ sth in sth စည်းသည်။ ပတ်သည်။ wind a bandage round one's finger. (ခ) ~ itself round sb/ sth ပတ်နေသည်။ The shirt flew off the washing line and wound itself round the apple tree.
၄။ (က) (လက်ကိုင်ကို) လှည့်သည်။ You operate the trapdoor by winding this handle.
(ခ) (လက်ကိုင်လှည့်၍၊ ခလုတ်နှိပ်၍) ရစ်သည်၊ အတင်အချလုပ်သည်။ wind a video back/ forward/ on ❍ wind a car window down/ up ❍ wind in a fishing line.
၅။ ~ sth (up) သံပတ်ပေးသည်။ သော့ပေးသည်။ wind one's watch ❍ He wound up the clockwork toys. See also WIND-UP
n (သံပတ်) …ပတ်။ Give the handle another couple of winds.
❏ wind down [PHRV ]
၁။ (ကိုယ်စိတ်ပင်ပန်း၍) အနားယူသည်။ This year has been frantically busy for us — I need a month's rest to wind down.
၂။ (နာရီ) သံပတ်ကုန် သည်။
❏ wind sth down [PHRV ] တစ်စတစ်စ လျှော့ချသည်။ The government has decided to wind down its nuclear programme.
❏ winding-sheet n = SHROUD
❏ wind up [PHRV ] (infml ) နောက်ဆုံး၌ ရောက်ရှိသည်။ အဆုံးသတ်သည်။ We eventually wound up (staying) in a little hotel by the sea. ❍ I always said he would wind up in prison.
❏ wind-up adj သော့ပေးရသော။ ဂေါက်နှင့် လှည့်ရသော။ wind-up toys/ windows ❍ an old-fashioned wind-up gramophone.
n (infml ) တမင်ဆွခြင်း။ (ဗန်း) သက်သက်ရစ်တာ။ Is this some kind of a wind-up?
❏ wind (sth) up [PHRV ] (မိန့်ခွန်း၊ အစည်းအဝေး စသည်) နိဂုံးချုပ်သည်။ The speaker had just begun winding up when the door was flung open. ❍ If we all agree, let's wind up the discussion.
❏ wind sb/ sth up [PHRV ] စိတ်လှုပ်ရှားစေသည်။ စိတ်မော စေသည်။ He gets so wound up when he's arguing. ❍ (Brit infml ) Are you deliberately winding me up? မင်းငါ့ကို တမင်ဆွပေးနေတာလား။ See alsoWIND-UP
❏ wind sth up [PHRV ] (လုပ်ငန်း) ရပ်စဲလိုက်သည်။ wind up one's affairs.

More examples

A cold wind blew and the rain fell in torrents.
We’ll head back to the shore if the wind picks up (=gets stronger).
The helicopter can’t reach them until the wind drops (=becomes less strong).
[a light/strong wind] : Fires spread by strong winds have caused widespread damage.
[a gust of wind] : A large gust of wind swept his hat into the sea.
The heavy blow knocked the wind out of him.

Synonyms

storm, blustery weather, wind speed, airstream, current of air, air, air currents, babble, bend, blast, blow, breath, breeze, chinook, clue, coil, convolute, corkscrew, cover, crook, cue, curl, curve, cyclone, deviate, distort, draft, draught, encircle, enclose, entwine, envelop, flurry, flutter, fold, furl, gale, gossip, gust, hint, hot air, idle talk, inkling, intimation, loop, meander, mistral, notice, puff, ramble, reel, report, roll, rumor, screw, slither, snake, spiral, squall, suggestion, swerve, talk, tempest, tidings, turn, twine, twist, twist and turn, typhoon, wafting, warning, weave, whiff, whirlwind, whisk, whisper, wrap, wrap around, wreathe, wriggle, zephyr, zigzag

Antonyms

calm, free, let go, release, straighten, uncover, unloose, untwist, unwind, unwrap