Dictionary entry
Nerve gas
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(n) (စစ်သုံး) အာရုံကြော ထိခိုက်စေသည့် အဆိပ် ဓာတ်ငွေ့။
Definition
nerve /nɜ:v/ n ၁။ [C] အာ႐ံုေၾကာ။ pain caused by a trapped nerve ❍ nerve endings ❍ nerve fibres/ tissues. ၂။ nerves [pl] ( infml ) ထိတ္လန္႔တုန္လႈပ္ျခင္း။ suffer from (an attack of) nerves ❍ actors showing signs of first-night nerves ❍ Everyone's nerves are on edge after the accident. ❍ frayed nerves. ၃။ (က) [U] သတၱိ။ I don't ride any more; I had a bad fall and lost my nerve. ❍ It takes a lot of nerve to be a racing driver. ❍ I wouldn't have the nerve to try anything like parachuting. (ခ) [sing] ( infml ) ဝံ့စားျခင္း။ ရဲတင္းျခင္း။ What a nerve! She borrowed my bike without asking! ❍ He's got a nerve, trying to tell me what to do. ❍ I didn't think you'd have the nerve to show your face here again. See also WAR OF NERVES v ~ oneself for sth/ to do sth စိတ္တင္းသည္။ သတၱိေမြးသည္။ I nerved myself to go to the dentist. ❍ She's nerving herself for a final confrontation. ❏ a bag/ bundle of nerves [ IDM ] တုန္လႈပ္ေခ်ာက္ခ်ားျခင္း။ ဒူးတုန္ျခင္း။ I was a bundle of nerves at the interview. ❏ get on sb's nerves [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္ကသိကေအာက္ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ စိတ္တိုေစသည္။ Stop whistling! It's/ You're getting on my nerves! ❏ have nerves of steel [ IDM ] သတၱိေကာင္းသည္။ ေသြး ေကာင္းသည္။ ❏ hit/ touch a (raw/ sensitive) nerve [ IDM ] အနာေပၚ တုတ္က်သည္။ ။ You hit a raw nerve when you mentioned his first wife. ❏ nerve-cell n အာ႐ံုေၾကာလံႈ႕ေဆာ္မႈ ျဖစ္ေစသည့္ ကလာပ္စည္း။ နဗ္ေၾကာဆဲလ္။ ❏ nerve-centre ( US -center ) n (ႀကိဳးကိုင္ရာ) ဗဟိုဌာန။ the nerve-centre of an election campaign. ❏ nerve gas n (စစ္သံုး) အာ႐ံုေၾကာ ထိခိုက္ေစသည့္ အဆိပ္ ဓာတ္ေငြ႕။ ❏ nerveless adj ၁။ ခြန္အားမရိွေသာ။ The knife fell from her nerveless fingers. ၂။ အလြန္ရဲရင့္ေသာ။ a nerveless racing driver. ❏ nerve-racking adj ရင္တုန္ပန္းတုန္ျဖစ္စရာ။ a nerve-racking wait for exam results.
Examples
- A pinched nerve is causing her a lot of pain.
- Cranial/peripheral nerves
- There’s nothing really wrong with her
- it’s just nerves.
- [a case of nerves] : A case of nerves won’t stop me from performing tonight.
- [calm someone’s nerves] : He asked for a drink to calm his nerves before heading out to the plane.
- [a lot of nerve] : It took a lot of nerve for him to ask her out.
- [the nerve to do something] : After months of agonizing
- she finally found the nerve to tell him he was wrong.
- [lose your nerve] : Suddenly I lost my nerve and I couldn’t move.
- [a lot of nerve/some nerve] : You’ve got a lot of nerve
- calling me at this time of night.
- [have the nerve to do something] : She had the nerve to call me a liar after everything I’ve done for her.
- [the nerve of someone] : The nerve of him
- asking me for money!