Dictionary entry
Woodcraft
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdkrɑːft/
Pronunciation
/ˈwʊdkrɑːft/
Myanmar Meaning
တောကျွမ်းခြင်း။
Definition
whirl /wɜ:l/ v ၁။ ခ်ာခ်ာလည္သည္။ ပတ္ခ်ာလွည့္သည္။ the whirling blades of the fan ❍ seagulls whirling over the ship ❍ The wind whirled up the fallen leaves. ❍ He whirled his partner round the dance floor. ၂။ ခ်ာခနဲ လည္သည္၊ လွည့္သည္။ The houses whirled past us as the train gathered speed. ❍ He whirled round, startled. ❍ We were whirled away/off in a waiting taxi. ၃။ (အေတြး) ခ်ာခ်ာလည္သည္။ ေခါင္းေနာက္သည္။ စိတ္ေထြသည္။ I couldn't sleep: my mind was still whirling from all I had seen and heard. n [sing] ၁။ လည္ပတ္ျခင္း။ ခ်ာခ်ာလည္ျခင္း။ the whirl of the propeller blades ❍ ( fig ) The performers danced round in a whirl of colour. ၂။ လက္မလည္ေအာင္ အလုပ္မ်ား ျခင္း။ ဂ်င္ေျခလည္ျခင္း။ ပြဲဆက္မ်ားျခင္း။ an endless whirl of parties ❍ be thrust into the social whirl. ၃။ စိတ္ေထြျခင္း။ ေခါင္းေနာက္ျခင္း။ (အေတြး) ခ်ာခ်ာလည္ျခင္း။ My mind is in a complete whirl. ❏ give sth a whirl [ IDM ] ( infml ) စမ္းလုပ္ၾကည့္သည္။ The job doesn't sound very exciting but I'll give it a whirl.
Examples
- ‘The cloud seemed to shimmer slightly
- and then it coalesced into two whirling dust devils that raced away towards the enemy at phenomenal speed.’
- ‘The first thing I noticed was the wind and cold exacerbated by the chopper's whirling blades blasting the freezing air down on us.’
- ‘Will I soon be going to Tea Dances at the village hall
- whirling Mrs Skidmore round in a slow waltz in between the cups of weak Typhoo and the Garibaldi biscuits?’
- ‘Words peel off from the text and whirl round the reader
- who can also hit the words so that they bounce back to the walls
- sometimes taking up different positions from before.’
- ‘The wind whistled through the trees
- making the leaves whirl round Tanon's head.’
- ‘Predictably
- he discovered on arrival at 6.15 on Wednesday night that
- while his golf clubs were whirling round the carousel
- his luggage had been lost en route.’
- ‘Every time a Philly player scores a home run
- a huge illuminated ‘liberty bell’ will whirl around
- flash and chime repeatedly.’
- ‘Around her whirled a kaleidoscope of unfamiliar faces
- a jumbled chorus of voices sounding in ten different languages.’
- ‘All these details whirl round the hub of a performance by Stephens that excites decidedly mixed feelings.’
- ‘They leave the walls and whirl round her
- then fall like snow to the floor.’
- ‘He took Becki's hands in his and they whirled round and round
- until Becki felt rather dizzy.’
- ‘This work conveys a sense of elements whirling about with the wind
- much as in his In the Beginning; the artist makes good use of sgraffito to create additional designs.’
- ‘Instead
- the fire whipped and whirled around me
- crawling up the walls and ceiling as it coursed through the halls.’
- ‘The fog whirled and eddied around her as she stepped out into the cobblestone street.’
- ‘Scarlet and rust-colored leaves whirled around his feet with the cool wind.’
- ‘As they whirled and twirled
- moving smoothly to the music
- they seemed reunited.’
- ‘But her words fell upon deaf ears
- Tane was moving
- spinning
- whirling around with tears in his eyes.’
- ‘She kicked off her sandals and we started dancing; me whirling her round and round while her bare feet flew frivolously over the grass.’
- ‘The wind grew fiercer
- sending leaves and twigs whirling around in the air.’
- ‘It is also helpful to whirl the water round and then break the egg into the centre of the whirlpool.’