The drink

Definition

drink /drÇŋk/ n ၁။ (က) [U, C] ေသာက္ဖြယ္။ food and drink ❍ soft drinks. (ခ) [C] (ေရ စသည္) ေသာက္ျခင္း။ တစ္ခြက္။ have a drink of water ❍ She took a drink and put the glass down. ၂။ (က) [U] ( Brit ) အရက္။ Isn't there any drink in the house? ❍ get the drink for a party ❍ I'm afraid he's rather the worse for drink. သူအရက္ အရမ္း မူးေနၿပီ။ ေဒါင္းေနၿပီ။ (ခ) [C] အရက္။ How about a quick drink? တစ္ခြက္တစ္ဖလားေလာက္ ခ်လိုက္ပါဦးလား။ ❍ Drinks are on me (ie I will pay for them). ❍ He's had one drink too many (ie He is slightly drunk). ၃။ [U] အရက္။ Drink is a growing problem among the young. ❍ She took to drink after the failure of her marriage. ❍ ( joc ) Working here is enough to drive one to drink! ဒီမွာ အလုပ္လုပ္ရင္ေတာ့ အရက္သမားျဖစ္မွာပဲ။ ၄။ the drink [sing] ( sl ) ပင္လယ္။ v ( pt drank /dræŋk/; pp drunk /drʌŋk/) ၁။ (က) ေသာက္သည္။ Some horses were drinking at/from a trough. ❍ We sat around drinking coffee and chatting. (ခ) ေသာက္သည္။ How many cups of tea do you drink in a day? ၂။ အရက္ေသာက္သည္။ He never drinks. ❍ They drink too much. Don't drink and drive (ie drive a car, etc after drinking alcohol)! ၃။ (အရက္) ေသာက္သည္။ He's drinking himself to death. ❍ ( infml ) They drank themselves stupid. ၄။ ~ sth (in/up) (အပင္၊ ေျမႀကီး) ေရစုပ္သည္။ ❏ drinkable adj ေသာက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ ေသာက္ေကာင္းေသာ။ Is this water drinkable? ❍ The wine is very drinkable (ie pleasant to drink). ❏ drink-driver ( Brit ) ( US drunk driver) n အရက္မူးမူး ႏွင့္ ကားေမာင္းသူ။ drink-driving ( Brit ) ( US drunk driving ) n [U] ❏ drinker n ၁။ အေသာက္သမား။ ယစ္ထုတ္။ a heavy drinker. ၂။ (ေကာ္ဖီစသည္) တစ္မ်ဳိးတည္းကိုသာ စြဲေသာက္သူ။ a coffee drinker ❍ beer drinkers. ❏ drink sb's health [ IDM ] ( fml ) တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္အား က်န္းမာခ်မ္းသာေစေၾကာင္း ဆုမြန္ေတာင္း၍ ခြက္ေျမႇာက္ ေသာက္ သည္။ ❏ drink sth in [ PHRV ] ၾကည္ႏူးနစ္ေမ်ာေနသည္။ They stood drinking in the beauty of the land-scape. ❏ drinking n [U] အရက္ေသာက္ျခင္း။ ေသေသာက္ျခင္း။ Drinking is known to be harmful. ❍ a heavy drinking session ❍ tough penalties for drinking and driving. ❏ drinking-fountain n ေသာက္ေရတိုင္။ ေသာက္ေရပန္း။ ❏ drinking-water n [U] ေသာက္ေရ။ ❏ drink like a fish [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႂကြက္တြင္းလို ေသာက္ႏိုင္ သည္။ ❏ drink to sb/sth [ PHRV ] တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္အတြက္ ဆုမြန္ေကာင္းေတာင္းလ်က္ ခြက္ေျမႇာက္ေသာက္သည္။ drink to sb's health/happiness/prosperity ❍ Let's drink to the success of your plans. ❍ I'll drink to that (ie I agree)! ❏ drink a toast to sb/sth [ IDM ] ဂုဏ္ျပဳေၾကာင္း၊ က်န္းမာ ခ်မ္းသာေစေၾကာင္း ဆႏၵျပဳလ်က္ ခြက္ေျမႇာက္ေသာက္သည္။ drink a toast to the happy couple. ❏ drink sb under the table [ IDM ] ( infml ) … ထက္ ပိုေသာက္ႏိုင္သည္ ❏ drink (sth) up [ PHRV ] အကုန္ေျပာင္စင္ေအာင္ ေသာက္ခ် သည္၊ ေမာ့ခ်သည္။ I know the medicine tastes nasty, but drink it up. Come on, drink up. It's time to go. ❍ ( Brit ) drinking up time (ie time allowed for finishing drinks before a pub closes).

Examples

1. The staff just stood around drinking cups of tea.
2. Drink your juice
3. Thomas.
4. [drink from/out of] : Rosie drank thirstily from a can of cola.
5. My parents don’t drink.
6. The young man had been out drinking with his friends.
7. [drink and drive] : The campaign against drinking and driving will continue.