Red herring

Definition

red /red/ adj ( -dder, -ddest) ၁။ အနီေရာင္။ a red dress/car ❍ red lips ❍ a red sky ❍ Maple leaves turn red in the autumn. ❍ red-painted doors ❍ red-tiled roofs. ❍ SPECTRUM ၂။ (က) (မ်က္ ေထာင့္)နီ[ေသာ]။ Her eyes were red with weeping. ❍ be red-eyed with fatigue. (ခ) (ေဒါသ ထြက္၍ (သို႔) ပူအိုက္ေမာပန္း၍ မ်က္ႏွာ) နီရဲ[ေသာ]။ go/be red (in the face) with embarrassment ❍ be red-faced and sweating. See also BLOOD-RED ၃။ (ဆံပင္၊ အေမြး) နီညိဳေရာင္ရိွေသာ။ a red-haired woman ❍ red deer/squirrels. ၄။ ( infml often derog ) အစြန္းေရာက္ လက္ဝဲဝါဒီျဖစ္ေသာ။ Compare PINK adj ၂ n ၁။ [U, C] အနီေရာင္၊ အနီ။ light/clear/deep/dark red ❍ the reds and browns of the woods in autumn (ie of the leaves, etc) ❍ There's too much red in the painting. ❍ The traffic lights were on red. ၂။ [U] အဝတ္အစားအနီ။ be dressed in red. ၃။ [U] သေျပမွည့္ေရာင္ဝိုင္။ Would you prefer red or white? ၄။ [C] ( infml often derog ) လက္ဝဲစြန္း ဝါဒီ။ a union infiltrated by reds. . ❏ the red [ IDM ] [U] ( infml ) ဘဏ္၌အပ္ထားေငြ လက္က်န္ မရိွေတာ့၍ ဘဏ္တြင္ေႂကြးတင္ျခင္း။ be in/out of the red ❍ go into/get out of the red ❍ My bank account is £50 in the red. ❏ red alert n [U, C] အႏၲရာယ္ အလြန္နီးကပ္လာေသာ အခါ၌ ႏိႈးေဆာ္သည့္ ေနာက္ဆံုးသတိေပးခ်က္။ put the police/hospitals on red alert. ❏ (as) red as a beetroot; ( US ) (as) red as a beet [ IDM ] (ရွက္ေသြးျဖင့္)ရဲတြတ္လ်က္။ He went as red as a beetroot when I asked about his new girlfriend. ❏ red-blooded adj ( infml ) အားေကာင္းေမာင္းသန္။ red-blooded young males. ❏ red-cabbage n [U, C] ေဂၚဖီထုပ္နီ။ ❏ red card n (ေဘာလံုးဒိုင္လူႀကီးက ကစားပြဲမွ ထုတ္ပစ္ရာ၌ သံုးေသာ) အနီကတ္။ Compare YELLOW CARD ❏ red carpet (usu the red carpet ) n (usu sing ) အေရးႀကီးပုဂၢိဳလ္အားႀကိဳဆိုရာတြင္ခင္းေသာ အနီေရာင္ေကာ္ေဇာ။ [ဥ] သဲျဖဴခင္း ရာဇမတ္ကာ။ roll out the red carpet ❍ (usu fig ) give sb the red-carpet treatment. ❏ red cent n [sing] ( US ) (esp after a negative) [ဥ] ျခဴးျပား။ I didn't get a red cent for it. ❏ red corpuscle (also red cell ) n ေသြးနီဥ။ Compare WHITE CORPUSCLE ❏ the Red Crescent n [sing] (အစၥလာမ္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ား၌ ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားသည့္ ၾကက္ေျခနီႏွင့္အလားတူ) လျခမ္းနီ အသင္း။ ❏ the Red Cross n [sing] ၾကက္ေျခနီ(အသင္း)။ Red Cross officials/doctors. ❏ red flag n ၁။ (ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္ရိွေၾကာင္း အခ်က္ျပရာတြင္ သံုးေသာ)အလံနီ။ ၂။ (ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီ၊ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး၏ သေကၤတ အျဖစ္သံုးေသာ) အလံနီ။ ❏ red giant n သက္တမ္းကုန္လုၿပီျဖစ္၍ ပြေရာင္းကာ အနီေရာင္ ေရာင္ျခည္ထြက္ေသာ ၾကယ္ႀကီး။ ❏ red herring n မ်က္စိလည္အလိုက္မွားေစရန္ ခ်ထားေသာ တလြဲသဲလြန္စ။ The plot is full of red herrings to distract the reader. ❏ red-hot adj ၁။ ရဲရဲညီးေသာ။ a red-hot poker. ၂။ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္။ red-hot protest. ၃။ ( infml ) ပူပူေႏြးေႏြးႏွင့္ တုန္လႈပ္ဖြယ္ရာ(သတင္း)။ a red-hot story. ❏ Red Indian (also redskin) n (⚠ dated offensive ) တိုင္းရင္းအေမရိကန္။ ❏ red-letter day n မေမ့ႏိုင္ေအာင္ အေပ်ာ္ႀကီးေပ်ာ္ရေသာေန႔။ ❏ red light n (ယာဥ္သြားလမ္းအခ်က္ျပ)မီးနီ။ go through a red light (ie not stop at one). ❏ red-light district n ျပည့္တန္ဆာတန္း။ ❏ red meat n [U] အမဲသား၊ သိုးသားကဲ့သို႔ က်က္နပ္သည့္ အခါ နီမိႈင္းေသာအသား။ Compare WHITE MEAT ❏ redness n [U, sing]နီျမန္းျခင္း။ redness of the skin ❏ red pepper n ၁။ [C] င႐ုတ္သီးေတာင့္အနီ။ ၂။ [U] = CAYENNE င႐ုတ္မႈန္႔။ ❏ (like) a red rag to a bull [ IDM ] ရွားေစာင္းေစးႏွင့္ မ်က္ေခ်း(ပမာ)။ ဆြေပးသည့္စကား၊ အမူအရာ စသည္။ ❏ red setter n = IRISH SETTER ❏ red tape n [U] ( derog ) ႀကိဳးနီစနစ္။ It takes weeks to go through all the red tape involved in getting planning permission. ❏ red wine n [U, C] သေျပမွည့္အေရာင္ရိွေသာဝိုင္။ Compare ROSE, WHITE WINE ❏ see red [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေထာင္းခနဲ ေဒါသထြက္ေစသည္။ Her remarks really made me see red.

Examples

1. She was wearing bright red lipstick.
2. Kelly felt her face turn red with embarrassment.