Speller

Definition

spell 1 /spel/ v ( pt, pp spelt /spelt/ or spelled /speld/) ၁။ (က) စာလံုးေပါင္းသည္။ How do you spell your name? ❍ You can also spell Catherine with a ‘K’. ❍ You spell his name P-A-U-L. (ခ) စာလံုးေပါင္းသည္။ I've never been able to spell. Why don't you learn to spell my name (correctly)? ၂။ စာလံုးေပါင္းရသည္။ C-A-T spells cat. ၃။ အဓိပၸာယ္ဆိုက္သည္။ သေဘာသက္ေရာက္သည္။ The failure of their crops spelt disaster for the farmers. ❏ speller n စာလံုးေပါင္း(ေတာ္၊ ညံ့)သူ။ She's a good/poor speller. ❏ spelling n ၁။ [U] (က) စာလံုးေပါင္း။ His spelling is terrible. ❍ They were given a spelling test. (ခ) စာလံုး ေပါင္း။ a spelling mistake. ၂။ [C] စာလံုးေပါင္းပံု။ စာလံုး ေပါင္း။ Which is the better spelling: Tokio or Tokyo? ❍ English and American spelling(s). ❏ spell sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ရွင္းလင္းေဖာ္ျပသည္။ နားရွင္း ေအာင္ေျပာသည္။ My instructions were simple enough—do I have to spell them out again? ၂။ (စာလံုး)ေပါင္းျပသည္။ Could you spell that word out for me again? spell 2 /spel/ n ၁။ (က) [C] မႏၲန္။ a book of spells ❍ The wizard recited a spell. (ခ) [C usu sing ] မႏၲန္(ျဖင့္ျပဳစား ျခင္း)။ cast/put a spell on sb ❍ be under a spell. ၂။ [ sing ] ညိႇဳ႕ဓာတ္။ ဖမ္းစားလႊမ္းမိုးမႈ။ under the spell of her beauty ❍ the mysterious spell of music. spell 3 /spel/ n ၁။ ကာလတာ။ အခ်ိန္ပိုင္း။ အခိုက္အတန္႔။ a long spell of warm weather ❍ rest for a short spell ❍ She had a dizzy spell and was forced to sit down. ၂။ ~ (at/on sth) အလွည့္။ take a spell at the wheel of the car (eg when two people are sharing the driving) ❍ have a spell on the typewriter.

Examples

1. Can you spell the word ‘beautiful’?
2. You’ve spelt my name wrong.
3. Her writing is neat
4. but she can’t spell.
5. L-O-V-E spells ‘love’.
6. The news spelled the death of the US car industry.
7. [spell disaster/trouble] : There’s a determined look about him which can only spell trouble for his rivals.
8. I’d better go spell Mitch for a couple of hours.