Nudge

Definition

nudge /nʌdʒ/ v ၁။ (သိေစရန္) တံေတာင္ျဖင့္ တြက္သည္။ I nudged her (on the arm) and pointed to the man across the street. ၂။ အသာအယာ တိုးသည္၊ တြန္းသည္၊ ပြတ္သြားသည္။ The horse nudged my pocket with its nose. ❍ The front of the car just nudged the gatepost. ❍ He nudged the ball past the goalkeeper. ၃။ ~ sb into/ towards (doing) sth အားေပးသည္။ တိုက္တြန္းသည္။ He's trying to nudge his colleagues into accepting the deal. ၄။ ကပ္လာ သည္။ နီးလာသည္။ Inflation is nudging 20% ❍ This afternoon's sunshine could nudge the temperature above freezing. n ၁။ တံေတာင္ျဖင့္တြက္ျခင္း။ She gave me a nudge in the ribs. ၂။ တြန္းအားေပးျခင္း။ ႀကိမ္တို႔ျခင္း။ ( fig ) He's capable of hard work, but he needs a nudge now and again.

Examples

1. Sheila nudged me in the ribs
2. and pointed at Paul.
3. Patrick nudged the door closed with his foot.
4. The central bank can nudge rates lower if necessary.
5. The temperatures are nudging up into the eighties.
6. She tries to nudge her students into reading more.