Dictionary entry
Squeegee
Pronunciation: /ˈskwiːdʒiː/
Pronunciation
/ˈskwiːdʒiː/
Myanmar Meaning
ပြတင်းတံခါးများကို သန့်စင်စေရန် ရော်ဘာကွပ်ထားသည့် လက်ကိုင်ပါဝင်သည့် ကိရိယာ။
Definition
squeegee /'skwi:dʒi: / n အ႐ိုးရွည္ရွည္တပ္ထားေသာ ရာဘာ ေရယက္။ ေရယက္တံ။ use a squeegee to clean the windows.
Examples
- ‘Apply the mixture to your windows with a clean sponge and squeegee off the liquid
- absorbing any drips with a cloth.’
- ‘If we have a two-story house for instance
- the windows and side walls will call for a squeegee with a long handle.’
- ‘It comes with a squeegee handle with two interchangeable rubber blades for steam cleaning soapy residue off glass shower doors;’
- ‘He placed me in a basket as he grabbed a squeegee and proceeded to clean the windows on the tower.’
- ‘Stuck in an elevator in the North Tower with five other men
- he used the blade of his squeegee to cut through the door.’
- ‘If dry spots are noted
- add water under the blanket with a small diameter hose or by using a roller squeegee to move the water around until the entire blanket has become translucent.’
- ‘Use 18-inch rollers or V-notch squeegees for epoxy primers.’
- ‘In either case
- you will find it necessary to remove the print from the developer and squeegee it for the solarization exposure.’
- ‘Moving to canvas
- he rolls on a base color and a layer of iridescent pigment
- then uses a squeegee to apply from 9 to 20 layers of iridescent glazes.’
- ‘The essence of the technique is that a fine mesh screen
- stretched tightly over a wooden frame
- is placed above a sheet of paper and colour is forced through the mesh with a rubber blade called a squeegee.’
- ‘Approached by a squeegee merchant at a set of traffic lights
- we let him quickly clean the (almost opaque) windscreen.’
- ‘A cop is telling a courthouse that he shot dead a homeless squeegee man because he felt scared.’
- ‘Now let me tell you that the original person who reported this incident was not a squeegee boy
- I am not a squeegee boy
- and the person kidnapped/arrested was not a squeegee boy.’
- ‘It also forbids squeegee kids from standing in roads and begging drivers for money.’
- ‘This rant is for the squeegee boy whose friend was locked up for not having his dog on a leash.’
- ‘He applied paint - thick strokes and overlapping thinner washes - to bare canvas and squeegeed it around.’
- ‘Make it a house rule for everyone to squeegee the shower stall after each shower.’
- ‘We began by sweeping
- then squeegeeing the water to a small drain
- but this was not the complete solution to our problem.’
- ‘A little colour also washes out of heavily toned prints
- which should be blotted or squeegeed after washing
- so the colour does not continue to bleed.’
- ‘But definitely by the time Larry Brown had finished his postgame whining
- it was as clear as a freshly squeegeed backboard: Someone forgot to tell the Pacers that they're supposed to be honing their golf games by now.’