Cling

Definition

cling /klÇŋ/ v ( pt , pp clung /klʌŋ/) ၁။ ~ (on) to sb/sth ; ~ onto sb/sth ; ~ on ; ~ together တြယ္ဖက္ထားသည္။ survivors clinging to a raft ❍ The children were clinging onto their mother. ❍ They clung to each other/clung together as they said goodbye. ❍ Cling on tight! ၂။ ~ (to sth) စြဲေနသည္။ ကပ္ေနသည္။ The smell of smoke clings (to one's clothes) for a long time. ❍ a dress that clings to (ie fits closely so as to show the shape of) the body. ၃။ ~ (on) to sth [ဥ] ဖက္တြယ္သည္။ cling to a belief/an opinion/a theory ❍ politicians who cling to power/office ❍ cling on to one's possessions ❍ She clung to the hope that he was still alive. ၄။ ~ (to sb) ( usu derog ) မ်က္စိေအာက္က အေပ်ာက္မခံႏိုင္။ ေမွ်ာ့တြယ္ သလိုတြယ္သည္။ Small children cling to their mothers. ❍ He clung to me like a leech all evening. ၅။ ~ to sb/sth ကပ္ေျမႇာင္၍သြားသည္။ ကပ္သည္။ The ship clung to the coastline. ❍ Don't cling to the curb when you're driving. ❏ cling film n [U] (စားကုန္ေသာက္ကုန္စသည္ ထုပ္ပိုးေသာ) ပလတ္စတစ္အၾကည္စား။ See also SHRINK-WRAPPED ❏ clinging (also clingy ) adj ၁။ (အဝတ္အစား) ခ်ပ္ခ်ပ္ ရပ္ရပ္ကပ္ေနေသာ။ ၂။ ( usu derog ) ေတာက္တဲ့ကပ္ ကပ္ေန ေသာ။ a clinging child.

Examples

1. [cling to] : Crossing the bridge
2. she felt dizzy and clung to the rails.
3. Some children were sobbing and clinging to their mothers.
4. [cling together] : The two monkeys clung tightly together.
5. He still clings to his mother even at the age of ten.
6. [cling to] : Gareth’s dripping clothes clung to his body.
7. [cling to] : The Prime Minister is still clinging to power.
8. [cling to] : Members of the sect have clung to a faith that has been outlawed since the 17th century.