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

  1. ‘Apply the mixture to your windows with a clean sponge and squeegee off the liquid
  2. absorbing any drips with a cloth.’
  3. ‘If we have a two-story house for instance
  4. the windows and side walls will call for a squeegee with a long handle.’
  5. ‘It comes with a squeegee handle with two interchangeable rubber blades for steam cleaning soapy residue off glass shower doors;’
  6. ‘He placed me in a basket as he grabbed a squeegee and proceeded to clean the windows on the tower.’
  7. ‘Stuck in an elevator in the North Tower with five other men
  8. he used the blade of his squeegee to cut through the door.’
  9. ‘If dry spots are noted
  10. 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.’
  11. ‘Use 18-inch rollers or V-notch squeegees for epoxy primers.’
  12. ‘In either case
  13. you will find it necessary to remove the print from the developer and squeegee it for the solarization exposure.’
  14. ‘Moving to canvas
  15. he rolls on a base color and a layer of iridescent pigment
  16. then uses a squeegee to apply from 9 to 20 layers of iridescent glazes.’
  17. ‘The essence of the technique is that a fine mesh screen
  18. stretched tightly over a wooden frame
  19. is placed above a sheet of paper and colour is forced through the mesh with a rubber blade called a squeegee.’
  20. ‘Approached by a squeegee merchant at a set of traffic lights
  21. we let him quickly clean the (almost opaque) windscreen.’
  22. ‘A cop is telling a courthouse that he shot dead a homeless squeegee man because he felt scared.’
  23. ‘Now let me tell you that the original person who reported this incident was not a squeegee boy
  24. I am not a squeegee boy
  25. and the person kidnapped/arrested was not a squeegee boy.’
  26. ‘It also forbids squeegee kids from standing in roads and begging drivers for money.’
  27. ‘This rant is for the squeegee boy whose friend was locked up for not having his dog on a leash.’
  28. ‘He applied paint - thick strokes and overlapping thinner washes - to bare canvas and squeegeed it around.’
  29. ‘Make it a house rule for everyone to squeegee the shower stall after each shower.’
  30. ‘We began by sweeping
  31. then squeegeeing the water to a small drain
  32. but this was not the complete solution to our problem.’
  33. ‘A little colour also washes out of heavily toned prints
  34. which should be blotted or squeegeed after washing
  35. so the colour does not continue to bleed.’
  36. ‘But definitely by the time Larry Brown had finished his postgame whining
  37. 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.’