False alarm

Definition

false / fↄ:ls / adj ၁။ မမွန္ေသာ။ မွားေသာ။ sing a false note ❍ A whale is a fish. True or false? ❍ Predictions of an early improvement in the housing market proved false. ၂။ (က) အစစ္အမွန္ မဟုတ္။ (အ) တု။ false hair/teeth/eyelashes. (ခ) စဥ္းလဲေသာ။ (အ) လိမ္။ false scales/dice ❍ a false passport ❍ a suitcase with a false bottom. (ဂ) ဟန္ေဆာင္ထားေသာ။ false modesty ❍ false tears. (ဃ) ယံုမွားေစေသာ။ give a false impression of great wealth ❍ a false sense of security (ie feeling safe when one is really in danger) ❍ Buying a cheap computer is a false economy (ie will not actually save you money). ၃။ (အ) လိမ္။ false evidence ❍ give a false name ❍ present false claims to an insurance company. ၄။ ~ ( to sb ) မစစ္မွန္ေသာ။ a false friend/lover. ❏ false alarm n အလကား ေျခာက္လံုးလွန္႔လံုး။ အလကား အထိတ္တလန္႔ျဖစ္မႈ။ Rumours of a bread shortage turned out to be a false alarm. ❏ falsely adv မွားယြင္းစြာ။ be falsely accused of sth. ❏ false move n ေျခလွမ္းမွား။ One false move could jeopardize the whole operation. ❏ false start n (က) ( sport ) တာခိုးထြက္ျခင္း။ (ခ) စမ္းတဝါးဝါးစျခင္း။ After several false starts, she became a successful journalist. ❏ play sb false [ IDM ] အမွတ္မွားသည္။ Is my memory playing me false or did she win Wimbledon once in the 60s? ❏ under false pretences [ IDM ] မဟုတ္ေသာ အေၾကာင္း ျပခ်က္ျဖင့္။ လိမ္ညာ၍။ obtaining money under false pretences.

Examples

1. The report was dismissed as totally false.
2. A false statement
3. [a false impression/belief/hope] : The media gave the world a false impression of life in the city.
4. False eyelashes
5. A false passport
6. This is no time for false modesty.
7. A false smile
8. My brother was falsely accused of murder.
9. She smiled falsely.