Powdery

Definition

powder /'paƱdǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [C,U] (က) အမႈန္႔။ lumps of chalk crushed to (a) powder ❍ The snow was like powder. (ခ) … မႈန္႔။ chilli/ curry powder ❍ face powder ❍ a range of washing powders. See also SOAP POWDER, TALCUM POWDER. ၂။ [U] = GUNPOWDER v ေပါင္ဒါ႐ိုက္သည္၊ တို႔သည္။ powder one's face/ nose. ❏ keep one's powder dry [ IDM ] [ဥ] တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ရန္ အၿမဲ အရန္သင့္။ The problem may not arise, but there's no harm in keeping our powder dry. ❏ powder blue adj, n (အျဖဴလုေသာ) အျပာႏု။ ❏ powdered adj (အရည္ကိုေသြ႕ၿပီး) အမႈန္႔ျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ။ powdered milk/ eggs ❍ The detergent is sold in powdered form. ❏ powdered sugar n [U] (US) = CASTOR SUGAR ❏ powder-keg n ၁။ ယမ္းမႈန္႔ထည့္ေသာ စည္ ကေလး။ ၂။ (ေပါက္ကြဲေတာ့မည့္) စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္ရာ အေျခအေန။ The country is a powder-keg waiting to explode. ❏ powder one's nose [ IDM ] ( euph ) (အမ်ဳိးသမီး) သန္႔စင္ခန္းဝင္သည္။ ❏ powder-puff n တို႔ဖတ္။ ❏ powder-room n ( euph ) အမ်ဳိးသမီး ကိုယ္လက္သန္႔စင္ ခန္း။ ❏ powdery /'paƱdǝri/ adj … အမႈန္႔။ a light fall of powdery snow.

Examples

1. Chilli powder
2. The detergent is sold in both liquid and powder forms.