White hope

Definition

white /waÇt/ adj ( -r , -st ) ၁။ ျဖဴေသာ။ အျဖဴ။ strong white teeth ❍ white blossom ❍ white bread ❍ She painted the walls white. ❍ Her hair has turned white (eg with age). ❍ new improved washing powders that wash clothes ‘whiter than white’ ❍ a white-coated doctor. Compare black adj see also snow-white ၂။ လူျဖဴ။ မ်က္ႏွာျဖဴ။ Her attacker was a white youth in his twenties. ❍ the end of white rule in South Africa. ၃။ ~ (with sth) ေသြးဆုတ္ေသာ [ေသာ] (မ်က္ႏွာ)။ He was white with fury. ❍ She went as white as a sheet when she heard the news. ၄။ (လက္ဖက္ရည္၊ ေကာ္ဖီ) ႏို႔၊ မလိုင္ပါေသာ။ ၅။ အဝါေရာင္ ေဖ်ာ့ေဖ်ာ့ (ဝိုင္)။ a bottle of dry white wine ❍ ‘A glass of wine, please. ’ ‘Red or white?’ n ၁။ [U] အျဖဴေရာင္။ အျဖဴ။ ၂။ (က) [U] အျဖဴေရာင္ အဝတ္အထည္။ dressed all in white. (ခ) whites [pl] (အားကစားသမားဝတ္) အျဖဴထည္။ tennis whites ❍ Don't wash whites with brightly coloured clothes. ၃။ [C, U] (ၾကက္ဥ၊ ဘဲဥ စသည့္) အကာ။ whisked egg whites ❍ Use the whites of two eggs. ❍ egg ၄။ [C] အသားျဖဴ လူမ်ဳိး။ လူျဖဴမ်ဳိး။ ၅။ [C esp pl ] မ်က္သား။ He could see the whites of her eyes glinting in the dim light. ❏ white ant n ျခ။ ❏ white-collar adj (က) ဉာဏလုပ္သား။ professional and white-collar workers. Compare blue-collar (ခ) ႐ံုးဝန္ထမ္းႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ။ ႐ံုးဝန္ထမ္း။ white-collar jobs/ unions. ❏ white corpuscle (also white cell ) n ေသြးျဖဴဥ။ Compare red corpuscle ❏ white elephant n [C usu sing ] အကုန္အက်မ်ားသေလာက္ အသံုးမဝင္ေသာ အရာ။ The new office block has become an expensive white elephant. ❏ white flag n အလံျဖဴ။ show/wave the white flag. ❏ white heat n [U] (သတၱဳျဖဴေဖြးလာသည္အထိ အလြန္ျပင္း ေသာ) အပူ။ အပူျဖဴ။ ❏ white hope n [sing] ( infml ) ေမွ်ာ္လင့္အားထားရသည့္သူ။ He was once the great white hope of the Party. ❏ white horses n [pl] လိႈင္းေခါင္းျဖဴ။ ❏ white-hot adj (က) အလွ်ံေဖြးေဖြးျဖဴေအာင္ ပူေသာ။ အလွ်ံညီးညီးပူေသာ။ ladles pouring out white-hot metal. (ခ) (အာသာဆႏၵ) ျပင္းျပေသာ။ white-hot conviction/passion. ❏ the White House n (က) [sing] အေမရိကန္သမၼတ အိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္။ (ခ) [Gp] အေမရိကန္သမၼတႏွင့္ အိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္ အရာရိွမ်ား။ အိမ္ျဖဴေတာ္။ The White House has denied the report. ❍ White House aides. ❏ white knight n ကုမၸဏီကို ေျခာက္ျပားတစ္ပဲႏွင့္ ေရာင္း ရေတာ့မည့္အေျခအေနမွ ကယ္လိုက္သူ၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း။ ❏ white lie n ေစတနာမုသား။ ❏ white light n [U] အေရာင္မဲ့ အလင္း။ သာမန္ ေန႔ အလင္းေရာင္။ ❍ spectrum ❏ white meat n [U] (က) ၾကက္ကေလး၊ ႏြားကေလး၊ ဝက္ကေလး အသား။ (ခ) (ၾကက္၊ ငွက္) ရင္ပံုသား။ Compare red meat ❏ whiten /'waÇtn/ v ျဖဴလာသည္။ ပို၍ျဖဴလာသည္။ ျဖဴေအာင္၊ ပို၍ျဖဴေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ He clenched his fists until his knuckles whitened. ❍ whiten one's tennis shoes ❍ a whitening agent used in paper-making. whiteness n [U]: the pure whiteness of her skin ❍ the clinical whiteness of the room. ❏ white-out n ႏွင္းေမွာင္က်ျခင္း။ ပိန္းပိတ္ေအာင္က်ေသာ ႏွင္းမုန္တိုင္း။ Compare blackout ❏ White Paper n ( Brit ) ပါလီမန္သို႔ တင္သြင္းမည့္ ကိစၥႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္းေသာ အစိုးရ၏ မူဝါဒသေဘာထား အစီရင္ခံစာ။ စကၠဴျဖဴ စာတမ္း။ Compare GREEN paper ❏ white pepper n [U] အခြံခြၽတ္ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္းမႈန္႔။ Compare Black pepper ❏ white sauce n [U] ေထာပတ္၊ ဂ်ံဳ၊ ႏို႔တို႔ႏွင့္ လုပ္ထားေသာ ေဆာ့(ရည္)။ Add cheese to the white sauce. ❏ white spirit n [U] ( esp Brit ) ေဆးခြၽတ္ ဓာတ္ဆီ အေပ်ာ့စား။ remove paint from the brushes with white spirit. ❏ white stick n (မ်က္မျမင္သံုး) ေတာင္ေဝွးျဖဴ။ ❏ white-tie n (လိပ္ျပာပံု ေခါက္တြန္႔) လည္စည္းျဖဴ။ dressed in white tie and tails. adj ညခင္းဝတ္စံုျပည့္ဝတ္ရေသာ (ပြဲလမ္း)။ Is it a white-tie affair? ❏ white water n [U] ေရေမာ္။ white-water rafting. ❏ white wedding n သတို႔သမီး မဂၤလာဝတ္စံုျဖဴ ဆင္ျမန္းရ သည့္ ႐ိုးရာမဂၤလာေဆာင္။ (ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရားေက်ာင္း၌ က်င္းပေလ့ ရိွသည္။ ) ❏ white wine n [U, C] စပ်စ္သီးစိမ္းႏွင့္လုပ္ေသာ အဝါေရာင္ ေဖ်ာ့ေဖ်ာ့ ဝိုင္။ a bottle of dry/sweet white wine. ❏ whitish adj ျဖဴတူတူ။ a whitish blue ❍ a whitish fungal growth on the wood.

Examples

1. A spotless white tablecloth
2. A black and white kitten
3. [pure/snow white] : The pure white sandy beaches
4. [brilliant/dazzling/gleaming white] : The Spanish houses with their brilliant white walls
5. [white with] : The hills were white with snow.
6. The attacker was described as white
7. with short hair.
8. She has a number of white friends.
9. A white neighbourhood
10. [predominantly/mostly white] : They live in a predominantly white suburb of Los Angeles.
11. [white with anger/shock/fear] : Luke’s face was white with anger.
12. [go/turn white] : She suddenly turned deathly white and fainted.
13. [whiter than white] : He is an old-fashioned
14. uncomplicated
15. whiter-than-white hero.
16. [lily-white] : The sport’s lily-white reputation has been stained by the affair.
17. The snowy whiteness of her hair