Smell

Definition

smell /smel/ v ( pt, pp smelt /smelt/ or smelled ) ၁။ (က) (not used in the continuous tenses; often with can or could ) အနံ႔ရသည္။ Can you smell anything unusual? ❍ The dog had smelt a rabbit. ❍ I could smell (that) he had been smoking. ❍ I can smell something burning. ❍ FEEL (ခ) နမ္း၊ ႐ႉ ၾကည့္သည္။ အနံ႔ခံသည္။ a dog smelling a lamppost ❍ Smell this and tell me what you think it is. ၂။ (not used in the continuous tenses) အနံ႔ခံႏိုင္သည္။ Can birds smell? ၃။ (က) (not used in the continuous tenses) နံသည္။ Your breath smells. ❍ The fish has begun to smell. (ခ) ~ (of sth) အနံ႔ရသည္။ ေမႊးသည္။ a bunch of sweet-smelling flowers ❍ The dinner smells good. ❍ What does the perfume smell like? ❍ The soup smells of garlic. ❍ Her house smells of dogs. ၄။ [ဥ] အနံ႔ရသည္။ He smelt danger. ❍ I can smell trouble (coming). n ၁။ [U] ဂႏၶာ႐ံု။ Taste and smell are closely connected. ❍ Dogs have an excellent sense of smell. ၂။ (က) [C, U] အနံ႔။ ရနံ႔။ အနံ႔အသက္။ a sweet/musty/delicious smell ❍ a strong/faint smell of gas ❍ There's a smell of cooking. ❍ The smells from the kitchen filled the room. ❍ The cream has no smell. (ခ) [sing] အနံ႔ဆိုး။ There's a bit of a smell in here. ❍ What a smell! တကယ္ ဆိုးတဲ့ အနံ႔ႀကီး။ ၃။ [C usu sing ] နမ္း၊ ႐ႉ ၾကည့္ျခင္း။ Have a smell of this egg and tell me if it's bad. ❏ smelling-salts n [pl] (ေရွး) ဇဝက္သာ႐ႉေဆး။ ❏ smell sb/sth out [ PHRV ] အနံ႔ခံၿပီးေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ The dogs are specially trained to smell out drugs. ❏ smell a rat [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ခုခုေတာ့ တစ္ခုခုပဲဟု မသကၤာျဖစ္သည္။ I smelt a rat when he started being so helpful! ❏ smelly adj ( -ier , -iest ) ( infml ) နံေသာ။ a smelly room/person ❍ smelly feet/breath/fumes.

Examples

1. This paint gives off a very strong smell.
2. Unpleasant smells
3. [smell of] : There’s a delicious smell of fresh bread coming from the kitchen.
4. Whatever is that smell?
5. Some experts can tell by smell alone what ingredients are in a dish.
6. [sense of smell] : Dogs have an excellent sense of smell.
7. Have a smell of this perfume.