Sweep

Definition

sweep /swi:p/ v ( pt, pp swept /swept/) ၁။ (က) ~ sth (from , off , into , etc sth) ; ~ sth (away , up , etc) လွည္းက်င္းသည္။ တံျမက္လွည္းသည္။ Have you swept in here? ❍ sweep the crumbs off the table/ into the dustpan ❍ sweep the dead leaves up. (ခ) ~ sth (out) လွည္းက်င္းသည္။ sweep the carpet/ floor/ yard ❍ sweep cut the porch ❍ Has this room been swept clean? ၂။ တိုက္ခ်သည္။ တြန္းပို႔သည္။ တြန္းဖယ္သည္။ ဖယ္ရွားသည္။ The current swept the logs down the river. ❍ We were almost swept off our feet by the waves. ❍ ( fig ) He was swept to power on a wave of popular support. ❍ She got swept along by the crowd. ❍ Many bridges were swept away by the floods. ❍ ( fig ) Many old laws and institutions were swept aside/ away by the revolution. ၃။ ႐ိုက္သည္။ ပုတ္သည္။ ႐ိုက္ခတ္ သည္။ လႊမ္းမိုးသည္။ A huge wave swept over the deck. ❍ Rumours swept through the town. ❍ Cold winds swept the plains. ❍ ( fig )A wave of panic swept the country. ❍ ( fig ) The party swept the country (ie won the election by a large majority). ၄။ ဣေႁႏၵတစ္ခြဲသားႏွင့္ (သို႔) ခံ့ခံ့ညားညား သြားလာေရြ႕လ်ားသည္။ Without another word she swept out. ❍ The car swept up the drive to the front of the house. ၅။ ပတ္သြားသည္။ ေဝ့ဝိုက္သြားသည္။ The road sweeps round the lake. ❍ The beach sweeps (away) northwards as far as one can see. ၆။ ရွာေဖြသည္။ ေမႊ သည္။ Searchlights swept the sky. ၇။ တရြတ္တိုက္သည္။ Her dress swept the ground as she walked. n ၁။ [C usu sing ] တံျမက္လွည္းျခင္း။ Give the room a good sweep. ၂။ [C] ေဝ့ျခင္း။ ေဝွ႔ျခင္း။ ေမႊ႕ျခင္း။ with a sweep of his arm/ scythe. ၃။ [C usu sing ] တစ္ခြင္တစ္ျပင္။ တစ္ေၾကာ။ the broad sweep of white cliffs round the bay. ၄။ [U] တစ္ခြင္။ တစ္ေၾကာ။ တစ္ေလွ်ာက္။ His book covers the long sweep of the country's history. ၅။ [C] တစ္ပတ္။ တစ္ေက်ာ့။ The rescue helicopter made another sweep over the bay. ၆။ [C] = CHIMNEY-SWEEP ၇။ [C] = SWEEPSTAKE ❏ sweep sth back [ PHRV ] ေနာက္လွန္ၿဖီးသည္။ Her auburn hair was swept back into an untidy bun. ❏ sweep the board [ IDM ] သိမ္းက်ံဳးယူသည္။ Switzerland swept the board in the winter Olympics. ❏ sweeper n ၁။ (in football) ေနာက္ဆံုးတန္းမွ ခုခံကာကြယ္ ကစားသူ။ ၂။ (က) တံျမက္လွည္းသမား။ a road sweeper. (ခ) တံျမက္လွည္းစက္။ a carpet sweeper. See also MINESWEEPER ❏ sweepings n [pl] လွည္းထုတ္ပစ္ေသာ အမိႈက္သ႐ိုက္။ ❏ sweep sb off their feet [ IDM ] စြဲမက္သြားသည္။ I was swept off my feet by her beauty and charm. ❏ sweep sth under the carpet [ IDM ] ဖံုးဖိထားသည္။ The government are trying to sweep the affair under the carpet.

Examples

1. After you’ve swept
2. you can do the washing-up.
3. Her work consisted mainly of making coffee and sweeping the floor.
4. I want you to sweep up the garage.
5. Little children used to be used to sweep chimneys.
6. Youngsters are risking their lives in a dangerous craze which is sweeping the country.
7. [sweep across] : The hurricane swept across the Gulf of California.
8. [sweep through] : Fire swept through the building.
9. The flood waters swept the car downstream.
10. He was swept along the street by dozens of supporters.
11. He swept his son into his arms.
12. [sweep into/past/by etc] : She swept into the office and announced she could only stay ten minutes.
13. [sweep past/through/along etc] : The limousine carrying the ambassador swept through the gates.
14. Her gaze swept the room and she frowned.
15. As she spoke
16. her eyes swept over her daughter.
17. The scenery was beautiful
18. with cool green forests sweeping down the hillsides.