Dictionary entry
Powders
Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊdə/
Pronunciation
/ˈpaʊdə/
Myanmar Meaning
(n[pl]) အမုန့်များ
Definition
pound 1 /paƱnd/ n ၁။ [C] [ symb £ ] (က) (also pound sterling ) ၿဗိတိသွ်သံုး စတာလင္ေပါင္ေငြ။ a ten-pound note ❍ a pound coin ❍ I've spent £25 on food today. ❍ Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds. See also STERLING (ခ) ဆိုက္ပရပ္၊ အီဂ်စ္၊ အိုင္ရာလန္၊ အစၥေရးႏွင့္ ေမာ္လတာတို႔တြင္ သံုးေသာေပါင္ေငြ။ (ဂ) the pound [sing] ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ေငြေၾကးေဈးကြက္တြင္ စတာလင္ ေပါင္၏ တန္ဖိုး။ the strength/ weakness of the pound (against other currencies) ❍ The pound closed slightly higher at $1.634. See also GREEN POUND ၂။ [C] ( abbr lb ) (အေလးခ်ိန္) ေပါင္။ (၀.၄၅၄ ကီလိုဂရမ္ႏွင့္ ညီမွ်သည္။ ) Apples are sold by the pound. ❍ I've put on two pounds this week (ie I weigh two pounds more). ❏ (have, want, demand, etc) one's pound of flesh [ IDM ] ပိုင္ၿပီဆိုသည္ႏွင့္ ရႏိုင္သမွ်ကို မေထာက္မညႇာ ယူသည္၊ ယူလိုသည္။ Their distress had no effect him, he was determined to have his pound of flesh. pound 2 /paƱnd/ n (က) စည္းကမ္းမဲ့ ရပ္နားယာဥ္မ်ားကို ပိုင္ရွင္ လာေရြးသည္အထိ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားရာစခန္း။ (ခ) ေလလြင့္ ေခြး၊ ေၾကာင္မ်ားကို ပိုင္ရွင္လာေရြး သည္အထိ ထိန္းေပးထားရာ ေနရာ။ See also IMPOUND pound 3 /paƱnd/ v ၁။ (က) တဒုန္းဒုန္းထုသည္၊ ေဆာင့္သည္။ the sound of feet pounding on the stairs ❍ Someone was pounding at/ on the door. ❍ The heavy guns pounded away all day. ❍ pound enemy positions ❍ He was pounding the keyboard until midnight. (ခ) ~ sth (to sth) ေထာင္းသည္။ pounding garlic (to a paste) ❍ The ship was pounded to pieces against the rocks. ေက်ာက္ ေဆာင္ႏွင့္ ဝင္ေဆာင့္မိ၍ သေဘၤာ စိစိေၾကသြားသည္။ ၂။ ~ (with sth) (ရင္) တဒိန္းဒိန္းခုန္သည္။ My heart was pounding (with fear). ❍ ( fig ) a pounding bass line. ❏ pound along, down, up, etc [ PHRV ] ဒုန္းစိုင္းသည္။ The horses came pounding along the track. ❏ pound sth out [ PHRV ] လက္သံျပင္းျပင္း တီးသည္။ pounding out a tune on the piano.
Examples
- Half a pound of cheese
- The baby weighed over 10 pounds.