Witness

Definition

witness /'wÇtnǝs/ n ၁။ [C] (က) (also eye-witness ) (မ်က္ျမင္) သက္ေသ။ Were there any witnesses (at the scene) of the accident? (ခ) (တရား႐ံုး) သက္ေသ။ a defence/ prosecution witness ❍ appear as (a) witness for the defence/ prosecution ❍ The witness was cross-examined by the defending counsel. (ဂ) အသိသက္ေသ။ We need someone to act as (a) witness when we sign the contract. ၂။ ( fml ) (က) [U] သက္ေသထြက္ခ်က္။ သက္ေသ ခံခ်က္။ give witness on behalf of an accused person. (ခ) [C usu sing ] သက္ေသခံပစၥည္း။ သက္ေသ အေထာက္အထား။ This village is a witness to the ravages of war. v ၁။ မ်က္ျမင္ေတြ႕သည္။ witness an accident/ a murder/ a quarrel ❍ We were witnessing one of the most important scientific developments of the century. ❍ ( fml ) Weather forecasters are not always right: witness (ie look at the example of) their recent mistakes. ၂။ ႀကံဳသည္။ ေတြ႕ႀကံဳသည္။ Europe witnessed massive political change in the late 1980s. ❍ The retail trade is witnessing a sharp fall in sales. ၃။ အသိသက္ေသမူသည္။ အသိသက္ေသအျဖစ္ လက္မွတ္ထိုးသည္။ witness the signing of a contract ❍ witness a signature/ treaty/ will. ၄။ ~ to sth ( law or fml ) (တရား႐ံုးတြင္) သက္ေသထြက္ဆိုသည္။ witness to the truth of a statement. ❏ be witness to sth [ IDM ] ၁။ မ်က္ျမင္ဒိ႒ေတြ႕သည္။ I was witness to a terrible accident. ၂။ သက္ေသခံႏိုင္သည္။ We're both witness to the fact that she lied. ❏ witness-box ( Brit ) ( US witness-stand ) n တရား႐ံုးတြင္ သက္ေသခံရာေနရာ။ ဝက္ၿခံ။

Examples

1. Witnesses reported hearing two gunshots.
2. [witness to] : Any witnesses to the incident are asked to contact the police.
3. [appeal for witnesses] : Detectives are appealing for witnesses.
4. More than twenty witnesses will be called.
5. An expert witness for the defence/prosecution