Sheet lightning

Definition

sheet 1 /ʃi:t/ n ၁။ အိပ္ရာခင္း။ put clean sheets on the bed. ၂။ (က) အခ်ပ္။ အျပား။ အလႊာ။ a sheet of glass/steel/plastic ❍ sheet metal (ie made into thin sheets). ❍ PIECE See also DUST-SHEET, FLY-SHEET (ခ) (စာ)ရြက္။ (စာ၊ သတင္း)လႊာ။ a clean sheet of paper (ie with no writing on it) ❍ a sheet of A4 ❍ Write each answer on a separate sheet. ❍ Our free information sheet lists universities offering part-time courses. See also BALANCE SHEET, BROADSHEET, CHARGE-SHEET, FACT-SHEET, NEWSSHEET, SPREADSHEET, TIME SHEET ၃။ အျပင္။ After the heavy frost the road was a sheet of ice. ၄။ အျပင္။ အစိုင္။ အထု။ a sheet of flame ❍ The rain came down in sheets (ie very heavily). ❏ sheeting n [U] (က) …ခ်ပ္။ …လႊာ။ …ျပား။ a broken window covered with plastic sheeting ❍ corrugated iron sheeting. (ခ) အိပ္ရာခင္းစ။ ❏ sheet lightning n [U] ေကာင္းကင္တစ္ျပင္လံုး ျပက္သည့္ လွ်ပ္စီး။ လွ်ပ္ျပင္။ ❏ sheet music n [U] ပံုႏိွပ္ဂီတသေကၤတစာရြက္။ sheet 2 /ʃi:t/ n (ေလွသေဘၤာရြက္၏)ေရသီႀကိဳး။ ❏ sheet anchor n (က) (သေဘၤာအေရးႀကံဳမွသာ သံုးရေသာ) ေက်ာက္ဆူးႀကီး။ (ခ) အခက္အခဲ၊ အက်ပ္ အတည္း၌ အားထားရာ။ The European Union can act as a sheet anchor for emerging democracies.

Examples

1. [change the sheets] : I think the chambermaid is waiting to change the sheets.
2. The answers are printed on a separate sheet.
3. [sheet of] : Dad bought a sheet of glass and repaired the window himself.
4. [sheet of] : We took the sheets of metal and welded them together.
5. The lake was covered with a sheet of ice.
6. Sheets of rain blew in off the bay.