Fe

Definition

iron /'aÇǝn; US 'aÇǝrn/ n ၁။ [U] ( symb Fe ) သံ။ သံဓာတ္။ cast/wrought/scrap iron ❍ as hard as iron ❍ iron ore (ie rock containing iron) ❍ an iron bar/gate/railing (ie made of iron). ၂။ [C] မီးပူ။ မီးအိုး။ a steam-iron. ၃။ [C] (esp in compounds) သံျဖင့္ျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ ကိရိယာတန္ဆာပလာ။ a branding-iron (eg for marking cattle, etc). ၄။ [C] ေဂါက္႐ိုက္သံတုတ္။ Compare WOOD ၄ ၅။ irons [pl] (esp formerly) ေျခထိတ္လက္ထိတ္။ clap sb in irons. ၆။ [U] သံဓာတ္ပါေသာ အားတိုးေဆး။ iron tablets. ၇။ (showing) သံမဏိ(စိတ္ဓာတ္ စသည္)။ have an iron constitution (ie very good health) ❍ an iron grip ❍ have a will of iron/an iron will. v မီးပူတိုက္သည္။ မီးေႂကြတိုက္သည္။ iron a shirt ❍ She listened to the radio while she was ironing. See also PRESS 2 ၅ ❏ have many, etc irons in the fire [ IDM ] လုပ္ငန္းမ်ဳိးစံု တစ္ၿပိဳင္တည္းလုပ္သည္။ ❏ the Iron Age n [sing] (ေၾကးေခတ္ေနာက္ပိုင္း) သံေခတ္။ ❏ the Iron Curtain n [sing] သံကန္႔လန္႔ကာ။ life behind the Iron Curtain. ❏ iron-grey ( US iron-gray ) adj မီးခိုးေရာင္အရင့္။ သံေရာင္။ iron-grey hair. ❏ ironing n [U] (က) မီးပူတိုက္ျခင္း။ do the ironing. (ခ) မီးပူထိုးရန္ အဝတ္။ a pile of ironing. ❏ ironing-board n မီးပူတိုက္ခံု။ ❍ IRON ❏ iron sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဆြးေႏြးေျဖရွင္းသည္။ iron out misunderstandings/problems. ၂။ မီးပူတိုက္သည္။ iron out creases. ❏ iron rations n [pl] အေရးေပၚရိကၡာ။

Examples

1. An iron deficiency
2. If cops spot a guy wearing a photographer vest without lots of camera equipment they figure he's packing iron and investigate.