Dictionary entry

Stave

Pronunciation: /steɪv/

Pronunciation

/steɪv/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) စည်းစပ်ပျဉ်။လှေကားထစ်။လင်္ကာပုဒ်။

Definition

stave /steÇv / n ၁။ ဝါးရင္းတုတ္၊ ေတာင္ေဝွးတို႔ကဲ့သို႔ ခိုင္ခံ့ ေသာတုတ္။ fence staves ❍ riot police carrying staves. Compare STAFF ၄ ၂။ သစ္သားစည္၏ ေဘးနံပ်ဥ္ခ်ပ္ရွည္။ a garden tub made of wooden staves. ၃။ ( music ) = STAFF ၃ v ( pt, pp staved or stove /stǝƱv /) ❏ stave sth in [ PHRV ] (ေလွ၊ စည္ စသည္ကို) ေဖာက္သည္၊ ကြဲေစသည္။ The side of the boat was stove in when it hit the rocks. ❏ stave sth off [ PHRV ] ( pt, pp staved ) တြန္းလွန္ပယ္ရွား သည္။ stave off disaster/danger/bankruptcy/hunger.

Examples

  1. The side of the car was staved in from the accident.
  2. We’re still trying to stave off a trade war with the US.