Deflection

Definition

deflect /dÇ'flekt/ v ၁။ တစ္စံုတစ္ခုကိုထိ၍ လမ္းေၾကာင္း လြဲေခ်ာ္ သြားသည္၊ ေခ်ာ္ထြက္သြားသည္၊ လႊဲဖည္သည္။ The bullet deflected from the wall. ❍ One of the defenders accidentally deflected the ball into the net. ေဘာလံုးကို ကန္ထုတ္ရာ၌ ဂိုးထဲေခ်ာ္ခတ္မိသည္။ ❍ ( fig ) The chairman tried to deflect the shareholders' criticism. ၂။ ~ sb (from sth) ဦးတည္ခ်က္မွ ေသြဖည္ေစသည္။ She will not be easily deflected from her purpose. ❏ deflection /dÇ'flekʃn/ n ၁။ (က) [U] တစ္စံု တစ္ခုကိုထိ၍ လမ္းေၾကာင္းလြဲသြားျခင္း၊ ေခ်ာ္ထြက္သြားျခင္း၊ တိမ္းေစာင္းသြား ျခင္း။ (ခ) [C] လြဲေခ်ာ္မႈ၊ တိမ္းေစာင္းမႈပမာဏ။ The smallest deflection of the missile could bring disaster. ❍ The ball took a huge deflection and beat the goalkeeper. ၂။ [C, U] သုညအမွတ္မွ ဒိုင္ခြက္ၫႊန္တံ ျပသည့္ေထာင့္။

Examples

1. The company was criticized for trying to deflect the blame for the accident.
2. [deflect something from something] : It was designed to deflect attention from domestic political problems.
3. [deflect someone from (doing) something] : Violence will not deflect us from seeking a peaceful political settlement to the problems.
4. His long range shot was deflected by the goalkeeper.