Rakish

Definition

rake 1 /rek/ n ထြန္ျခစ္။ v ၁။ (က) ထြန္ျခစ္ျဖင့္ဆြဲ၍ စုသည္၊ ပံုသည္။ rake leaves into a pile ❍ She raked up the grass cuttings. (ခ) ထြန္ျခစ္တိုက္၍ ညိႇသည္။ rake the soil (smooth) (eg before planting seeds). ၂။ (က) (စက္ေသနတ္ စသည္ျဖင့္) ပိုက္စိပ္တိုက္ပစ္သည္။ (မီးေမာင္း၊ မွန္ေျပာင္း စသည္ျဖင့္) တရစပ္ေမႊေႏွာက္သည္။ (ကင္မရာျဖင့္) ဘယ္ညာ ထိုးခ်ိန္၍႐ိုက္သည္။ They raked the enemy ranks with machine-gun fire. ❍ The bird-watcher raked the trees with his binoculars. (ခ) မီးေမာင္းျဖင့္ ေစ့ေစ့စပ္စပ္ထိုးေမႊသည္။ ❏ rake around (for sth) [ PHRV ] ေစ့ေစ့စပ္စပ္ ေမႊေႏွာက္ လွန္ေလွာရွာေဖြသည္။ We raked around in the files, but couldn't find the letter. ❏ rake sth/ it in [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေငြကို သဲ့ယူသလိုရသည္။ raking in the profits ❍ Her last two novels were best sellers, so she's really raking it in! ❏ rake-off n ( infml ) သမာသမတ္မဟုတ္ဘဲရသည့္ အျမတ္ အစြန္းမွခြဲတမ္း။ She got a 5% rake-off from the deal. ❏ rake sb/ sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေစ့ေစ့ေပါက္ေပါက္ လိုက္စုသည္။ We need to rake up two more players to form a team. ❏ rake sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အနာေဟာင္းကို ျပန္ဆြသည္။ rake up old quarrels/ grievances ❍ Don't rake up the past. rake 2 /rek/ n ( dated ) အေသာက္အစား၊ အေလာင္းအစား၊ အေပ်ာ္အပါးၾကဴးသူ ဂိုက္ေကာင္းဆိုက္ေကာင္း ေၾကးရတတ္။ ေပၚေၾကာ့အေပ်ာ္ၾကဴးသမား။ ❏ rakish /'rekʃ/ adj ၁။ လူေပၚေၾကာ့ (ပံုစံ၊ ဆန္ဆန္ အၿပံဳး)။ a rakish appearance/smile. ၂။ ရႊတ္တီးရႊတ္ေနာက္ (ပံုဟန္)။ a hat worn at a rakish angle (eg on the back of the head). rakishly adv rake 3 /rek/ n [sing] ဇာတ္ခံုစသည္၏ဆင္ေျခေလွ်ာ။ ❏ raked /rekt/ adj ေစာင္းထားေသာ။ a raked stage/ running track ❍ The seat back is raked for extra comfort.

Examples

1. She sat down
2. nervously raking her fingers through her hair.
3. Passing vehicles were raked with machine-gun fire.