The armed forces

Definition

arm 1 /ɑ:m/ n ၁။ လက္ေမာင္း။ လက္။ လက္တစ္ကမ္း။ She held the baby in her arms. ❍ They lay in each other's arms. သူတို႔ တစ္ဦးႏွင့္တစ္ဦး ေပြ႕ပိုက္လ်က္ ေမွးစက္ေနၾကသည္။ ❍ He gave her his arm (ie let her hold it for support) as they crossed the road. ❍ She was carrying a book under her arm. စာအုပ္ကို သူခ်ဳိင္းၾကားတြင္ ညႇပ္ထားသည္။ ❍ She held the fish at arm's length (ie as far away as possible, with the arm fully extended away from the body). ❍ Keep your belongings within arm's reach (ie where you can reach them easily). ❍ stroll arm in arm. လက္ခ်င္းတြဲၿပီး လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ၾကသည္။ ၂။ အက်ႌလက္။ There's a tear in the arm of my jacket. ၃။ လက္ေမာင္းကဲ့သို႔ေသာ ေမာင္းတံ၊ လက္တံ၊ လက္တန္း စသည္။ the arms of a chair (ie the parts on which the arms can rest). ❍ The story is set at Lecco on the eastern arm of Lake Como. ၄။ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း႐ံုးခြဲ။ the European arm of an engineering group ❍ the investment banking arm. ၅။ (usu sing ) လက္႐ံုးတပ္ဖြဲ႕။ troops supported by the air arm. ❏ the (long) arm of sb/ sth [ IDM ] အေဝးသို႔ လွမ္းမီေသာ ဩဇာအာဏာ။ fear the long arm of the drug cartels ❍ He fled to Brazil trying to escape the long arm of the law. ❏ (with one's) arms akimbo [ IDM ] ခါးေထာက္လ်က္။ Aunt Eliza stood in the doorway (with her) arms akimbo. ❏ cost/ pay an arm and a leg [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ေငြ) နင့္ေနေအာင္ေပးရသည္။ The repairs cost an arm and a leg. ❏ keep sb at arm's length [ IDM ] အေရာတဝင္မလုပ္။ ခပ္ခြာခြာေနသည္။ keep the press at arm's length. arm 2 /ɑ:m/ v ၁။ ~ oneself/ sb (with sth) လက္နက္ တပ္ဆင္ သည္။ စစ္တိုက္ရန္ ျပင္ဆင္သည္။ The enemy is arming. ❍ The mob armed themselves with sticks and stones. ❍ an armed guard ❍ Police say the man is armed and dangerous. ❍ warships armed with nuclear weapons ❍ ( fig ) She arrived at the interview armed with pages of statistics. ၂။ ေဖာက္ခြဲရန္ အသင့္ျပင္ဆင္သည္။ Compare DISARM See also ARMS ❏ armed adj လက္နက္အသံုးျပဳေသာ။ an armed robbery/ struggle/ conflict ❍ armed neutrality. လက္နက္ အသင့္ ျပင္ဆင္မႈျဖင့္ ၾကားေနျခင္း။ ❏ the armed forces (also the armed services ) n [pl] ၾကည္းေရေလ တပ္မေတာ္။ ❏ armed to the teeth [ IDM ] လက္နက္မ်ဳိးစံု တပ္ဆင္ ထားသည္။

Examples

1. I put my arm around his shoulders.
2. [in someone’s arms] : She was holding the baby in her arms.
3. [under someone’s arm] : Jim was carrying a parcel under his arm.
4. [into someone’s arms] : The children threw themselves into their grandmother’s arms.
5. [fold/cross your arms] : She folded her arms across her chest.
6. [take someone in your arms] : He took her in his arms and kissed her.
7. The crane’s huge metal arm lifted the load into the air.
8. The retailing arm of the business
9. An arm of the Justice Department