Shielding

Definition

shelter /'ʃeltǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [U] ~ (from sth) အရိပ္အာဝါသ။ Human beings need food, shelter and warmth. ❍ take shelter from the rain ❍ people desperately seeking shelter from the gunfire ❍ She gave shelter to an escaped prisoner. ၂။ [C] (often in compounds) (က) တဲ၊ အိမ္၊ ေအးက်င္း စေသာ အေဆာက္အအံု။ They built a rough shelter from old pieces of wood and cardboard. ❍ a bike shelter (eg at a school, for pupils to leave their bicycles in) ❍ an air-raid/a fallout shelter. See also BUS SHELTER (ခ) အိုးမဲ့အိမ္မဲ့၊ ဒုကၡေရာက္သူ လူ၊ တိရစၧာန္တို႔ ခိုနားရန္ ကုသိုလ္ျဖစ္ရိပ္သာ၊ ေဂဟာ စသည္။ a night shelter for the homeless ❍ an animal shelter. v ၁။ ~ sb/sth (from sth/sb ) (က) ကာသည္။ ကြယ္သည္။ ခိုလံႈခြင့္ေပးသည္။ The valley is sheltered by the mountains to the north. ❍ shelter an escaped prisoner in one's home ❍ trees that shelter a house from the wind ❍ The wall sheltered the soldiers from the gunfire. (ခ) ကာသည္။ ကြယ္သည္။ အကာအကြယ္ေပးသည္။ He is trying to shelter his boss from criticism. ❍ Is our country's industry sheltered from foreign competition? ၂။ ~ (from sth) ခိုသည္။ ခိုလံႈသည္။ shelter under the trees/behind a wall ❍ shelter from the rain ❍ political refugees sheltering in the US embassy. ❏ sheltered adj ၁။ အရိပ္အာဝါသေကာင္းေသာ။ find a sheltered spot for a picnic ❍ a sheltered region. ၂။ ( sometimes derog ) ေျခေမြးမီးမေလာင္ လက္ေမြးမီးမေလာင္။ ေရႊလိုဦးထားေသာ။ ရင္အုပ္မကြာ ေမြးျမဴေသာ။ He had a sheltered life/childhood. ၃။ သက္ႀကီးရြယ္အို၊ မစြမ္းမသန္သူ စသည္တို႔ကို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ထားေသာ (ရိပ္သာ)။ sheltered housing/accommodation for the elderly/disabled.

Examples

1. We built a temporary shelter out of branches.
2. A bus shelter
3. A bomb shelter
4. People stood and watched from the shelter of shop doorways.
5. [take/seek shelter] : We took shelter from the rain in a nearby cafe.
6. [find shelter] : They found shelter for the night in a cave.
7. A women’s shelter
8. Everyone has the right to food
9. clothing
10. and shelter.