Shadow

Definition

shadow /'ʃædǝƱ/ n ၁။ (က) [C] အရိပ္။ The chair cast a shadow on the wall. ❍ The shadows lengthened as the sun went down. ❍ ( fig ) The bad news cast a shadow on/over our meeting (ie made us sad). ❍ SHADE (ခ) [U] (also shadows [pl]) အရိပ္။ ေမွာင္ရိပ္။ Her face was in deep shadow. ❍ a figure standing in the shadows. ၂။ [C] မ်က္တြင္းက်ျခင္း။ have shadows under the eyes (eg because of illness or lack of sleep). ၃။ [C] (က) အရိပ္ပမာ တေကာက္ေကာက္ပါသူ၊ တိရစၧာန္။ အၿမီး။ The dog became his shadow and never left his side. (ခ) ေနာက္ေယာင္ခံလိုက္သူ။ အၿမီး။ ၄။ [sing] ~ of sth (usu in negative sentences) အရိပ္အေငြ႕။ There is not a shadow of (a) doubt that he is guilty. ၅။ [C] အရိပ္။ တံလွ်ပ္။ You can't spend your life chasing shadows. ၆။ [sing] the ~ of sb/sth အရိပ္အေယာင္။ အရိပ္အျခည္။ ေလာင္းရိပ္။ the shadow of the approaching catastrophe ❍ For years he lived in the shadow of his famous mother. See also EYE-SHADOW, FIVE O'CLOCK SHADOW v ၁။ ေနာက္ေယာင္ခံလိုက္သည္။ တေကာက္ေကာက္လိုက္သည္။ He was shadowed for a week by the secret police. ၂။ ကာထားသည္။ ေဆာင္းထားသည္။ Her face was shadowed by a wide-brimmed hat. See also OVERSHADOW adj ( Brit politics ) (လက္ရိွအာဏာရဝန္ႀကီး၊ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ ဖက္ၿပိဳင္လ်ာထားေသာ အတိုက္အခံ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမွ) ေနာက္ေယာင္ ခံ(ဝန္ႀကီး၊ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕)။ the Shadow Cabinet ❍ the Shadow Foreign Secretary. ❏ shadow-box v လက္ေဝွ႔ေရးျပသည္၊ က်င့္သည္။ shadow-boxing n [U] ❏ a shadow of one's/its former self [ IDM ] ခ်ဳိႏွင့္သားေရ သာက်န္သည့္အျဖစ္။ She used to be a great player, but now she's a mere shadow of her former self. ❏ shadowy adj ၁။ အရိပ္ရေသာ။ အရိပ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ the cool, shadowy interior of the church ❍ a shadowy corner. ၂။ ႐ိုးတိုးရိပ္တိပ္။ မသဲ မကြဲ ။ a shadowy figure glimpsed in the twilight. ၃။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္သိုသိပ္ေသာ။ the shadowy world of the secret service.

Examples

1. The kids jumped out of the shadows
2. trying to scare us.
3. [in shadow] : Even on a bright day
4. the room was in shadow.
5. The trees cast long
6. scary shadows in the evening light.
7. The dogs are always trying to chase their own shadows.
8. [in the shadow of something] : She stood outside in the shadow of a large pine tree.