Bite

Definition

bite /baÇt/ v ( pt bit /bÇt/; pp bitten /'bÇtn/) ၁။ ~ (into sth) (သြားျဖင့္) ကိုက္သည္။ Does your dog bite? (ie Does it have a habit of biting people?) ❍ She bit into the apple. ❍ dogs biting at (ie trying to bite) each other's tails ❍ That dog just bit me in the leg. ❍ Stop biting your nails! ❍ bite off (ie cut off by biting) a large chunk of bread. ၂။ (အေကာင္) ကိုက္သည္၊ တုပ္သည္။ badly bitten by mosquitoes ❍ ( joc ) We were bitten to death (ie bitten a great deal) by flies while we were camping. See also FROSTBITTEN ၃။ (ငါးစာကို) ဟပ္သည္၊ တြပ္သည္။ The fish won't bite today. ❍ ( fig ) I tried to sell him my old car, but he wouldn't bite (ie he did not accept the offer). ၄။ ၿမဲၿမံစြာ ကုပ္တြယ္သည္။ Wheels won't bite on a slippery surface. ၅။ ဆိုးက်ဳိး သက္ေရာက္ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည္။ ခိုက္သည္။ The government's economic measures are beginning to bite. n ၁။ [C] (က) (တစ္၊ ႏွစ္ စသည္) ကိုက္။ ကိုက္ျခင္း။ eat sth in one bite ❍ The dog gave me a playful bite. (ခ) ကိုက္ဖဲ့ထုတ္လိုက္သည့္ အပိုင္းအစ။ a sandwich with a bite out of it. ၂။ [sing] ( infml ) စားစရာ။ I haven't had a bite (to eat) all day. ၃။ [C] ပိုးမႊား၊ ေႁမြအကိုက္ခံရသည့္ ဒဏ္ရာ၊ အဖုအပိမ့္။ mosquito bites. ၄။ [C] (ငါး) ဟပ္ျခင္း။ အဟပ္။ fishermen waiting for a bite. ၅။ [sing, U] (အထိအေတြ႕၊ အရသာ) စူးရွမႈ။ ထိေရာက္မႈ။ There's a bite in the air (ie It's cold). ❍ a wine with real bite (ie a strong flavour) ❍ His words had no bite (ie were harmless or not effective). See also FROSTBITE ၆။ [U] အသြားထက္မႈ။ ကုပ္တြယ္အား။ This drill has no bite. ❏ be bitten by sth [ IDM ] စြဲစြဲလမ္းလမ္း စိတ္ဝင္စားသည္။ [ဥ] ပိုးဝင္သြားသည္။ ❏ bite the bullet [ IDM ] ( infml ) မတတ္သာ၍ လက္ခံရသည္၊ ေဆးခါးႀကီးကို မ်ဳိရသည္။ ❏ bite the dust [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ လဲေသသည္။ ၂။ အေရး နိမ့္သည္။ အပယ္ခံရသည္။ Another of my great ideas bites the dust! ❏ bite the hand that feeds one [ IDM ] ေက်းဇူးရွင္ကို ေက်းစြပ္သည္။ ထမင္းခြံ႕ေသာလက္ကို ဖမ္းကိုက္သည္။ ❏ bite one's lip [ IDM ] ပါးစပ္မဟမိေအာင္ တင္းတင္း ေစ့ထားသည္။ ❏ bite off more than one can chew [ IDM ] ( infml ) မရဲဘဲႏွင့္ကြၽဲၿပဲ စီးသည္။ ❏ bite-sized adj တစ္လုတ္စာ၊ တစ္ကိုက္စာ အေနေတာ္။ cut the meat into bite-sized pieces. ❏ bite one's tongue [ IDM ] မေျပာမိေအာင္ မနည္း ေအာင့္ ထားရသည္။ ႏႈတ္မေစာင့္မိသည့္အတြက္ မိမိကိုယ္မိမိ အျပစ္တင္ သည္။ ❏ biting adj ၁။ အ႐ိုးခိုက္ေအာင္ စူးရွေသာ (အေအးဓာတ္၊ ေလ စသည္)။ a biting wind. ၂။ (စကား) ရင့္သီးေသာ။ ပက္စက္ေသာ။ biting sarcasm/wit. bitingly adv ❏ have/get two bites at the cherry [ IDM ] အခြင့္အေရး ႏွစ္ခါျပန္ရသည္။ ❏ what's biting/eating him, you, etc? [ IDM ] ( infml ) (သူ၊ မင္း စသည္) ဘာေတြမ်ားစိတ္႐ႈပ္ေနသလဲ။

Examples

1. Stop biting your nails.
2. [bite into] : Tom bit into his sandwich.
3. I’d been bitten by mosquitoes in the night.
4. Does your dog bite?
5. The fish don’t seem to be biting today.
6. The economic slowdown is beginning to bite.